Chris Herrington
Columnist
Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life. He lives in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood of Midtown with his wife, two kids, and two dogs.
There are 1512 articles by Chris Herrington :
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October 2018
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Memphis Grizzlies Five games into an 82-game schedule is too soon to draw firm conclusions. The Grizzlies’ most-used lineup so far has played only 22 minutes and features two players (JaMychal Green, Chandler Parsons) out and likely to be for a while longer. They’ve played three games against teams widely projected to be among the league’s half-dozen worst. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Postgame: Gasol leads balanced offense in romp over Suns
NBA practices are off-limits to non-team personnel, but listen closely and you can hear (some of) what goes on behind closed doors. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Game Day: Hosting the Suns, hoping for health
Marc Gasol heard a pop and then went numb. -
Chris Herrington Politics doesn’t always make you nauseous (only most of the time)
There’s a bit early in Primary Colors, Joe Klein’s written-as-Anonymous 1996 roman a clef on the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign, that comes to me from time to time. -
Memphis Grizzlies Road Recap: Kings 97, Grizzlies 92
This was one of those games, for the Grizzlies, where the outcome that mattered most was not the final score. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Mailbag: Jaren Jackson Jr.’s future, Conley and Gasol’s sustainability, Bickerstaff’s coaching and more
Welcome to the first Grizzlies Mailbag of this season. This one was a test-run, with no guarantee of a follow-up, but I got more good questions -- on short notice -- than I had time and space to use. -
Memphis Grizzlies Road Recap: Grizzlies 92, Jazz 84
For the first time in nearly a year, the Grizzlies can look at the NBA standings and see themselves in the black. The last time the Grizzlies had a winning record was November 15, 2017, when they began their day 7-6. With an unexpected road win against the Utah Jazz on Monday night, the Grizzlies move to 2-1. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Game Day: A short road trip minus a key big man
The Grizzlies are hitting the road for a two-game West Coast trip a man short, with forward JaMychal Green likely out more than a month with a broken jaw suffered in the second half of Friday’s home opener. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies forward JaMychal Green to miss at least a month with broken jaw
For the second season in a row, Grizzlies forward JaMychal Green will miss significant time due to a random injury suffered in the team’s home opener. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Postgame: Conley, Gasol get offense into gear in win over Hawks
It’s a first-quarter timeout at the Grizzlies home opener and Grizz, the mascot, comes through the tunnel with something in his hands. It’s an infant in costume, a bear-cub cutie. Grizz carries his cub to midcourt, “Circle of Life” from The Lion King playing. He raises the little one above his head, toward the rafters. The crowd -- appropriately -- roars. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Game Day: A must-win home opener?
A home opener is supposed to be a day of celebration, whatever the future holds, not a time for the biting of fingernails. -
Memphis Grizzlies Road Recap: Pacers 111, Grizzlies 83
In the first half, Marc Gasol looked a lot like his team: slow of foot and uncertain of mind. Gasol got (a little bit) better in the second half, which was more than you could say for the team as a whole. -
Chris Herrington The Memphis 10: Crosstown crowned, Memphis in Chicago and (sort of) on the big screen, and more
Two weeks ago in this space, I suggested The Memphis 10 would be taking a two-week hiatus, one for some fall break family travels and a second for an NBA/Grizzlies opening-week workload. -
Memphis Grizzlies Six reasons for fans to be excited about this Grizzlies season
On the cusp of this Memphis Grizzlies season, the franchise’s 18th in Memphis, the prevailing questions have been been about the team: How good can they be? How concerning were their preseason struggles? But let’s take a moment to talk about you. -
Memphis Grizzlies Turn Four: How worried should the Grizzlies be about preseason struggles?
When former Grizzlies head coach Dave Joerger needed a bucket, he’d yell “Turn Four,” a call for Zach Randolph to get the ball. When we need to mull over the big questions at key moments in the Grizzlies season, we use it to call a Daily Memphian quorum. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Season Preview: Can this team be any good?
Everyone’s happy the NBA preseason has shrunk. Not long ago, eight games was the norm. Now every team plays between four and six. The result is fewer games that don’t count, padded out by players who won’t be on regular season rosters; more air into an 82-game real season that needed extra rest time. Win-win, right? -
Memphis Grizzlies NBA Preview: Notes and record predictions for all 30 teams
There are different levels of NBA fandom. Some care about their team and some care about the entire league. There’s no right or wrong way to be a fan, but the following NBA-wide deep dive is for the latter kind. -
Chris Herrington Montgomery to Memphis
If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles. -
Memphis Grizzlies Former Tiger D.J. Stephens signs two-way contract with Grizzlies
Former Memphis Tigers standout D.J. Stephens has been signed to a two-way contract by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Monday evening. -
Memphis Grizzlies Kyle Anderson, trio of backup point guard candidates look to expand the Grizzlies’ playmaking palette
During the decade-long Mike Conley and Marc Gasol era, a dearth of three-point shooting elsewhere on the roster has consistently plagued the Grizzlies. Only once in this stretch have the Grizzlies finished in the Top 20 in three-point attempts and only twice in three-point percentage, never higher than 17th on the accuracy front. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies veterans lead way in home preseason debut
Score one for the grown folks. -
Chris Herrington The Memphis 10: Trump visit, aftermath of Trenary murder mark a messy week
It was a week of sobering news and a news-making Presidential visit. Because the opening items underscore reckonings that came, alternately, from us and to us, I kept it light on the rest of this week’s 10. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Roster Preview: Plenty of room in the rotation for both Jaren Jackson Jr. and JaMychal Green
A tale of two Media Day scrums: Jaren Jackson Jr. sat encircled, with microphones, recorders, and TV cameras surrounding Castle Jackson like an impenetrable moat. He held court with a big smile, talking about rap albums and Netflix shows, essaying the locker-room generation gap for which he’s the poster manchild in a manner that tiptoed the line between guileless and knowing. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies make home preseason debut in weekend back-to-back
The Grizzlies preseason just started, and by Sunday morning it will be more than half over. -
Memphis Grizzlies Conley, Parsons strong in Grizzlies preseason debut
The Grizzlies made their preseason debut Tuesday night in Birmingham with a 131-115 loss to the Houston Rockets. Scores don’t really matter in the preseason, but here’s a chain of thoughts on things that might:
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