{"id":793728,"date":"2026-07-23T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/793728\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:12:27","slug":"analysis-top-memphis-grizzlies-players-at-2026-summer-league-memphis-local-sports-business-food-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/793728\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Top Memphis Grizzlies players at 2026 summer league &#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\/07\/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 was a season of change for the Memphis Grizzlies in the Salt Lake City and Las Vegas summer leagues.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the spring, amid a draft-positioning \u201ctank\u201d race of unseemly intensity and rule-change-prompting size, the Grizzlies did everything they reasonably could to try to lose regular-season games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This is an excerpt of this story. To read more, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">please click here and subscribe<\/a>.<\/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":793729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":["post-793728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-grizzlies","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116968760810144289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793728","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=793728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}