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Grizzlies 25: For 10 momentous playoff minutes, Darrell Arthur found basketball perfection

By , Daily Memphian Published: November 19, 2025 4:00 AM CT

This is the 25th season of the Grizzlies in Memphis. To commemorate the anniversary, “Grizzlies 25” will count down the greatest players in Memphis Grizzlies history throughout the season. 

Some players pile up great moments throughout their career and some are remembered for rising up and just having one. The former Grizzlies group will come later in this countdown. Darrell Arthur is one of the latter. 

Let’s go back to April 25, 2011, at FedExForum. To the Beale Street Beatdown. 

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Chris Herrington

Chris Herrington

Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s 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 and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.


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