Grizzlies Mailbag: Grading the offseason, contemplating Nashville
With LeBron James headed to Philadelphia, Chris Herrington opens his mailbag. (Rick Scuteri/AP Photo file)
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.
LeBron James has chosen a home, and now the rest of us can get on with our lives.
James’ Philly-bound decision represents a shift in the basketball offseason, which has entered a slow-motion cleanup phase.
The weeks between July’s summer league and the mid-August NBA schedule release tend to be quiet ones, a good time for our annual Mid-Summer Grizzlies Mailbag, which I’ll extend into a three-parter over the next few weeks.
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