Kenneth Lofton Sr. knew his son was going to be an NBA player. Last season, the Grizzlies signed Kenneth Lofton Jr. to a four-year, $6.9 million standard contract.

The new venue is “giving people a taste of what we know is incredible Southern hospitality and culture through the lens of the golf tournament.”

It’s the first time since 2018 that multiple Memphis Tiger baseball players were drafted. 

Maxine Engel will be on Capitol Hill as part of an athlete-led advocacy group seeking to help the current generation as well as the next.

Recent Central High graduate Jordan Ware has added a prestigious honor to cap his career. Also, former MUS track and field star Harrison Williams won the decathlon title at USATF National Outdoor Championships. 

New details emerge on recent Memphis Grizzlies transactions, and Chris Herrington breaks them down.

Merrill appeared in six games for the Grizzlies before he was waived on Jan. 1, 2022.

Former players from Houston High, Collierville High and Arlington High taken on the second day of the MLB Draft.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Davonte Pack, a friend of Memphis Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant. 

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Judge Carol Chumney granted the State of Tennessee’s motion to intervene in the case Monday. The state has also filed a motion to continue the case to give it time to defend state law.

In 2008, a kid from Chicago helped lead the Memphis Tigers to the NCAA championship game. Now he’s back in town to play for the Memphis Grizzlies.

In the summer before his first season in charge at Whitehaven High, former Memphis point guard Willie Kemp will coach the Beale Street Boys in The Basketball Tournament.

When the Memphis Grizzlies concluded summer league practice Sunday, all the players wandered to the sideline of the practice court to take off their shoes. But not Jackson. He couldn’t resist shooting the basketball.

His mother, Kim Mulkey, knows a thing or two about sports. She just won her fourth national championship as a women’s college basketball head coach, this time at LSU.

The second-year big is one of the main attractions on the summer league roster. With 23 points, he led the way for the Grizzlies to secure a win over the Bulls.

Calling it an “easy decision,” Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane was so excited to make his contract extension official that he accidentally signed on the wrong line. 

San Antonio FC dominated from the outset of the contest at AutoZone Park, scoring three goals in the first half and going on to win 4-0 over 901 FC. 

After a passionate 26-minute introduction of Marcus Smart in Las Vegas, Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins was yelling “Let’s freakin’ go!”

Williams, a four-star signee in Memphis’ 2023 class, has his preliminary hearing postponed for the second time in less than a month.

Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins talks about about what having both Smart and Jaren Jackson Jr. — the NBA’s past two Defensive Players of the Year — will mean to the team. 

Bartlett will soon become the next suburb with a pickleball facility as a private entity is converting the former Malco movie theater on Bartlett Boulevard.

Nikki McCray-Penson, 51, was a Collierville native, who had a standout career in high school, college, then in the WNBA and for Team USA. 

Grizzlies second-round draft pick GG Jackson scored 23 points and showed off his skill set in a summer league loss to the Utah Jazz. 

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Memphis’ USL Championship club is back home at AutoZone Park after seeing its 12-match unbeaten streak come to a close.