{"id":26521,"date":"2023-03-14T07:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26521"},"modified":"2023-03-14T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:08:45","slug":"tuesday-update-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/14\/tuesday-update-249\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a great week to be a basketball fan in Memphis. The Grizzlies scored a nice 104-88 road win over the Dallas Mavericks last night. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Kings took a 133-124 loss to Milwaukee. That put the Grizzlies back in second place in the Western Conference. Top three standings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Denver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Memphis &#8211; 4.5 games back of Denver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sacramento &#8211; 5.5 games back of Denver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are the clear top three in the Western Conference. After that it&#8217;s a horse race, with only 4.5 games separating 4th-place Phoenix (9 games back of Denver) from 12th-place Utah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest Grizzlies news yesterday was that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10068736-report-ja-morant-enters-counseling-program-no-timetable-for-return-to-grizzlies\" target=\"_blank\">Ja Morant has entered a counseling program in Florida<\/a> and there is no timetable for his return. Memphis loves you, Ja. Take all the time you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Memphis Tigers basketball team got some good news yesterday. Their victory over top-ranked Houston <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-basketball\/article\/34783\/memphis-tigers-basketball-ranked-in-ap-top-25-poll\" target=\"_blank\">landed them in the AP poll<\/a> for the first time all year. They come in at number 24, one spot ahead of their NCAA first-round opponent Florida Atlantic. In other poll news, Houston&#8217;s loss dropped the Cougs to 2nd, with Bama regaining the 1 spot. Memphis&#8217; potential second-round opponent Purdue moved up two places to 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feastandgraze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feast &amp; Graze<\/a> at 55 S. Main wants to buy you lunch this week! All week long, buy one menu item and get a menu item of equal or lesser value for free. Kitchen closes at 2 PM Monday-Wednesday and 3 PM Thursday-Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/049479e66d2137b452313783df5ea942\/national-potato-chip-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Potato Chip Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>86-year-old <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/buddy-guy\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Guy<\/a> plays the Orpheum tonight. Tickets are $55-$120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvesting equipment fans: There will be a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.renasantconventioncenter.com\/events\/renasant-convention-center\/macdon-dealer-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">MacDon dealer meeting<\/a> at the Renasant Convention Center Thursday-Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All right. When I start blogging about farm tools, it&#8217;s time to go. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a great week to be a basketball fan in Memphis. The Grizzlies scored a nice 104-88 road win over the Dallas Mavericks last night. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Kings took a 133-124 loss to Milwaukee. That put the Grizzlies back in second place in the Western Conference. Top three standings: Those are the clear top &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/14\/tuesday-update-249\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26522,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26521\/revisions\/26522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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