Grizzlies 25: Jason Williams was basketball chaos, for good or ill, on the court or in the postgame locker room
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During the Memphis Grizzlies’ recent NBA “global” game in Germany, one of the franchise’s greats, a point guard with both a flair for the spectacular and a penchant for the volatile and dramatic, watched from the sideline rather than appearing in the game.
Two of them, actually.
There was Ja Morant, in all white, his ostensible calf contusion keeping him out of the game amid trade rumors. Half a dozen seats to Morant’s right, in a group of former pros on the first row, was Jason Williams, in all black. They may have been dressed in the color coding of a high-noon duel in a movie western, but they were instead an unintentional emblem of the Grizzlies’ 25 seasons in Memphis.
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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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