{"id":28533,"date":"2025-04-06T09:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28533"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:43:35","slug":"sunday-update-219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/sunday-update-219\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies got a W in Detroit last night, 109-103. Ja Morant did not play (illness). Des had 38, JJJ dropped in 27, and our rookie Edey had a career night with 21. This is going to add fuel to the &#8220;trade Ja, we can get along just fine without him&#8221; fire.<\/p>\n<p>Grizzlies remaining regular season games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday 6:00 at Charlotte Hornets. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 8:30 vs. Minnesota Timberwolves. All fans in attendance will receive Memphis Sounds thunder sticks. TV: TBS, TNT, truTV<\/li>\n<li>Friday 8:00 at Denver Nuggets. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 2:30 vs. Dallas Mavericks. Fan Appreciation Night. All fans in attendance will receive a Grizzlies poster. TV: FanDuel Sports and locally on Action News 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s look at the standings as of Sunday morning, April 6. The Grizzlies are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>out of reach of 1st or 2nd in the Western Conference<\/li>\n<li>1.5 games back of 3rd place Los Angeles Lakers<\/li>\n<li>1 GB of 4th place Denver Nuggets<\/li>\n<li>0.5 GB of 5th place Golden State Warriors<\/li>\n<li>0 GB of 6th place Minnesota Timberwolves<\/li>\n<li>&#8212;&#8211; BEGIN PLAY-IN TEAMS &#8212;&#8211;<\/li>\n<li>0 GB of 7th place Los Angeles Clippers<\/li>\n<li>Grizzlies are 8th<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t finish worse than 8th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, these last 4 games matter A LOT. Memphis needs to at least get up to 6th to avoid the play-in. Finishing 4th or higher would give the Grizz home court advantage in the playoff first round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/the-millennium-tour-240406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Millennium Tour<\/a> is tonight at FedExForum. Trey Songz, Omarion, Bow Wow, Plies, Boosie, Ying Yang Twins, RSVP (Ray J , Sammie, Bobby V, Pleasure P), Nivea, with special guest Rick Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/some-like-it-hot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some Like It Hot<\/a> comes to the Orpheum this week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/f170e842ec6d7ac5c3d1caf46760a57d\/national-acai-bowl-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Acai Bowl Day<\/a>. Memphis Chess Club, where I&#8217;m typing this post, has them.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you&#8217;re not so health-conscious, it&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/da051ebb2b63a20a5add71280772758e\/national-twinkie-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Twinkie Day<\/a>. DGX is the place to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/82693684baf6c1e4e8aaa0959efe13ce\/new-beers-eve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Beer&#8217;s Eve<\/a>. Celebrate with a local draft ($5 on Sundays) at the Flying Saucer.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast 99% Invisible recently <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/622-bonus-a-walking-tour-with-mr-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> Memphis historian Jimmy Ogle.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. I&#8217;m getting desperately short on money again, so I may not be out at my usual spots this week. Back with more news when I can be.<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog is free to read, but I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies got a W in Detroit last night, 109-103. Ja Morant did not play (illness). Des had 38, JJJ dropped in 27, and our rookie Edey had a career night with 21. This is going to add fuel to the &#8220;trade Ja, we can get along just fine without him&#8221; fire. Grizzlies remaining regular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/sunday-update-219\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday 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\/28533"}],"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=28533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28534,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28533\/revisions\/28534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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