Herrington: With a young trio on the wings, the Grizzlies hope a persistent problem’s been solved
Cedric Coward, GG Jackson II and Jaylen Wells make up the Memmphis Grizzlies young-wing trio. (Wes Hale, Rick Bowmer, Matt Rourke/The Daily Memphian, AP files)
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 now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
As a now dead-and-buried basketball era emerged, peaked and too soon subsided, the Memphis Grizzlies were constantly searching for physical, talented wing players.
They had guards (Ja Morant, Desmond Bane) and bigs (Jaren Jackson Jr., Jonas Valanciunas giving way to Steven Adams), but puzzle-completing wings were hard to come by.
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