{"id":30039,"date":"2026-06-25T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30039"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:12:24","slug":"thursday-update-389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/thursday-update-389\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2027, you&#8217;ll be able to post to social media that you&#8217;re hanging out Downtown with the bros at the &#8216;bro.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Memphian, <a href=\"https:\/\/novelmemphis.com\/libro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libro<\/a> restaurant, the restaurant inside novel. bookstore out east, will open a second location inside Memphis Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Quality &#8220;get.&#8221; Quality fit. A big win for Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>USA vs. Turkiye, final group play match for both teams, 9 PM tonight, FOX.<\/p>\n<p>NBA draft recap: The Grizzlies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took Duke power forward <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameron_Boozer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cam Boozer<\/a> with the 3 pick. Bleacher Report gave the selection an A+. A player with a high floor and one you build a team around.<\/li>\n<li>Traded the 16 pick for the 17 pick and two future second-round picks.<\/li>\n<li>Traded the 17 pick for the 21 pick and three future second-round picks.<\/li>\n<li>Took Mexican small forward Karim Lopez with the 21 pick. Said to be the type of player Zach Kleiman loves.<\/li>\n<li>Traded three second-round picks for Detroit power forward\/center <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaiah_Stewart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isaiah Stewart<\/a>. Stewart recently got votes for Sixth Man of the Year.<\/li>\n<li>Took BYU shooting guard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richie_Saunders_(basketball)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richie Saunders<\/a> with the 32 pick. Saunders&#8217; great-grandfather invented the Tater Tot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Memphis Grizzlies may have won the NBA draft.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25444835-grading-every-teams-2026-nba-draft-and-trades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleacher Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Max&#8217;s Sports Bar and Huey&#8217;s made the 2026 Memphis Flyer list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/late-night-eats-vol-iv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late night eats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to see the City Council voted to fund improvements to AutoZone Park that&#8217;ll keep the Redbirds here in town. Some of the council members were being doo-doo heads about it a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a burger special at the Saucer with pimiento cheese, fried green tomatoes, slaw, and tomato jam. Gonna cash in the $15 gift certificate I won Tuesday at trivia to try it this afternoon. Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\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>In 2027, you&#8217;ll be able to post to social media that you&#8217;re hanging out Downtown with the bros at the &#8216;bro. According to The Daily Memphian, Libro restaurant, the restaurant inside novel. bookstore out east, will open a second location inside Memphis Art Museum. Quality &#8220;get.&#8221; Quality fit. A big win for Downtown. USA vs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/thursday-update-389\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/30039"}],"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=30039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30041,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30039\/revisions\/30041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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