{"id":863684,"date":"2026-10-20T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/863684\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:45:29","slug":"flyers-brown-honored-by-basketball-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/863684\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyer’s Brown Honored by Basketball Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharon Brown has been honored with a third-place award in the 2026 PBWA Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. \u201cLeBron Said It Out Loud. Memphis Felt Every Word\u201d garnered recognition in the Columns category. The contest honors work by members of the Professional Basketball Writers Association between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s column was a response to criticism of a Memphis hotel by NBA superstar LeBron James. <\/p>\n

\"\"Sharon Brown <\/p>\n

Among the judges\u2019 comments: \u201cThis is truly a memorable column about an NBA city \u2014 Memphis \u2014 that keeps hearing it shouldn\u2019t be an NBA city. I went back and read this entry multiple times, impressed by the prose and impassioned defense of a place that LeBron James suggests should be expunged from the NBA map. . . . Memphis is portrayed as an entertainment mecca, the site of exquisite blues performances on Beale Street, and the National Civil Rights Museum. . . . The writer depicts the franchise as a slice of civic pride, a source of self esteem, and essential to the region\u2019s economy. . . . Beautifully done. Makes one want to give Memphis a closer look.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a link to the column:<\/p>\n

\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrank Murtaugh is the managing editor of Memphis magazine. He’s covered sports for the Flyer for two decades. “From My Seat” debuted on the Flyer site in 2002 and “Tiger Blue” in 2009.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Frank Murtaugh\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharon Brown has been honored with a third-place award in the 2026 PBWA Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. \u201cLeBron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":["post-863684","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\/117473780019715859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863684","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=863684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}