{"id":715582,"date":"2026-04-22T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:07:36","slug":"herrington-first-look-at-the-potential-ja-morant-trade-market-memphis-local-sports-business-food-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715582\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrington: First look at the potential Ja Morant trade market &#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>While the Memphis Grizzlies season is (blessedly?) over, ball never stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a Grizz-centric spin around the NBA, with an early look at the (very theoretical) Ja Morant trade market, a peak toward June\u2019s draft and a bittersweet gaze across the early playoff landscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This is an excerpt\u00a0of\u00a0this story. To read more, please\u00a0<a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW243780580 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">click here and subscribe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/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":715298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-715582","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\/116446395012024226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715582","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=715582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}