Grizzlies 25: Tyus Jones was a needed old soul on a brash, young team
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This is the 25th season of the Grizzlies in Memphis. To commemorate the anniversary, “Grizzlies 25” will count down the greatest players in Memphis Grizzlies history throughout the season.
Deep breath: Kyle Lowry, Javaris Crittenton, Marko Jaric, Marcus Williams, Jamaal Tinsley, Greivis Vasquez, Jason Williams, Gilbert Arenas, Jeremy Pargo, Jerryd Bayless, Keyon Dooling, Nick Calathes, Darius Morris, Beno Udrih, Mario Chalmers, Andrew Harrison, Toney Douglas, Wade Baldwin, Delon Wright, Shelvin Mack, Jevon Carter.
Those were the Memphis Grizzlies’ backup point guards — those who played at least 40 games in a season or at least 10 minutes a game in a backup role — during Mike Conley’s 12 years as the team’s starter, with Lowry at the very beginning of a great career and Williams and Arenas at the very end of theirs.
Here’s another list: Tyus Jones.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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