Grizzlies Mailbag: Fearing the Spurs and sorting through the NBA Draft
Memphis Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo gestures during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Milwaukee. (Aaron Gash/AP file)
With more than a month until the NBA Draft and following summer free agency period, there’s perhaps too much time to marinate over what might be. But for a lot of you — most of you if you’re reading this — fandom doesn’t just happen on game nights or draft nights. It happens in daydreams and distractions, when you find yourself mulling over trade-up scenarios and lineup combinations while you’re walking the dog or driving to work.
So, with time to spare, let’s take some of it to distract ourselves with daydreams.
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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 now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
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