{"id":701123,"date":"2026-04-06T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:29:31","slug":"evaluating-zach-kleimans-memphis-grizzlies-coach-player-management-memphis-local-sports-business-food-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701123\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating Zach Kleiman\u2019s Memphis Grizzlies coach, player management &#8211; Memphis Local, Sports, Business &#038; Food News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"AuthorCallout__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769794838_179_54_orig.jpeg\" alt=\"Chris Herrington\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Daily Memphian<\/p>\n<p>Chris Herrington<\/p>\n<p class=\"sans text-small text-light\">Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise\u2019s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It can be fairly easy to evaluate a transaction: a draft pick, a trade, a signing.\u00a0But many important parts of the job are less tangible and less public: managing people and personalities, from front office to coaching staff to players.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily Memphian Chris Herrington Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-701123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116357063341039375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}