Daily Memphian
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.
It was a season of change for the Memphis Grizzlies in the Salt Lake City and Las Vegas summer leagues.
In the spring, amid a draft-positioning “tank” race of unseemly intensity and rule-change-prompting size, the Grizzlies did everything they reasonably could to try to lose regular-season games.
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