Several Grizzlies items this afternoon for this second Thursday news post. First of all, some good news: The Riverfront Pop-up Fitness Park at Tom Lee Park has completed its three-month trial period successfully and will remain at the park until April. At that point it will be taken down to prepare for Memphis in May.
The Grizzlies have announced their 2014-15 season of giving plans and events.
Good article on SBNation: The Rise of the Grizzlies, from Gasol to Gasol
In not-so-good news for the Grizzlies, the team lost to the Houston Rockets last night at home. However, there was a silver lining, because we got to watch a couple of former Memphis Tigers playing for the Rockets doing well. Tarik Black, who played for three years under Josh Pastner, started as center and logged 23 minutes and 10 points. Joey Dorsey, who played on John Calipari’s 2008 NCAA Finals runner-up team, came off the bench as power forward and played 22 minutes, scoring 7 points. Congratulations to both of these men for making it to the big time.
All Huey’s locations, including the Downtown one, have added two new menu items: a pretzel burger and apple hickory wings.
From the MBJ: New homes are planned for a gated community in Victorian Village. Architecture will fit with the existing neighborhood. These will be the first newly constructed Downtown lots since the recession.
That’ll do it for this afternoon. Time for PBR.