Chris Vernon Show

Grizzlies beat Lakers 131-114, Ja Morant and LeBron James hit each other with the "too little" + Ja's hamstring, Jay Huff's 3rd quarter spark, Jaylen Wells big game, JJJ and Brandon Clarke's pairing, JJ Redick benching D'Angelo Russell (3:00) Fill In The Blank (1:08:46)

On today's show, Chris will open up with a some sad news about the passing of Brendan Brown, son of former Grizzlies Head Coach Hubie Brown (5:19). Grizzlies vs Lakers tonight, Luke Kennard's possible return, Rui Hachimura doubtful, Anthony Davis questionable, Taylor Jenkins not coaching tonight due to a death in the family, our Wiseacre Skydog of the Game and Reasons to Hate the Los Angeles Laker...

It's Tuesday's with Tony Allen In-Studio Presented by ESCO. TA joins the show in-studio to talk about the Grizzlies loss to the Brooklyn Nets last night, Ja Morant's two 360 layups, if there's anybody else in NBA history who could do that, Zach Edey's breakout game, what the rotations will look like as guys start to come back from injury, Brandon Clarke's low minutes, and more (3:00) Devin went to...

10 Things from the Weekend! Grizzlies Weekend (10:11) College Football Impressed & Depressed with SMU, South Carolina, Louisville, Vandy, Ole Miss, Penn State, USC, Nebraska and Memphis (18:58) NFL Impressed & Depressed with Lions, Saquon, Ravens, Tyler Bass, Cowboys, and Saints (48:30) Tigers vs Mizzou (58:39) NBA Weekend w/ Drake vs DeMar and Embiid Pushes Reporter (1:04:56) The Penguin,...

Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio and they talk about the Grizzlies dominant win over the Milwaukee Bucks, their problems on defense, why Damian Lillard could be the one who gets traded, Ja Morant's triple-double, and more (3:00) Memphis Hustle C and former North Carolina C, Armando Bacot, joins the show in-studio to talk about appearing on Outer Banks, his time at North Carolina, all of the J...

The Grizzlies lost Desmond Bane and Marcus Smart in Wednesday night's loss to the Brooklyn Nets, how this effects the team going forward, if Ja and JJJ need to play more minutes, how to somewhat fix it until players get healthy, Zach Edey's struggles, and more (3:00). Reasons to Hate the Milwaukee Bucks (48:51) Wiseacre Skydog of the Game (1:01:02) Fill In The Blank (1:15:55)

The Memphis Hustle are looking for a mascot and voting is open (3:00). The Grizzlies play the Nets tonight and they went to OT with the Nuggets last night + Jokic literally having to do everything, Luka's big shot in Minnesota, Kyrie's monster night, Anthony Edwards taking more threes (10:44).  Yankees and MLB revoked seats tonight for fan who knocked ball out of the glove of Mookie Betts (57:24)...

It's Tuesday's with Tony Allen Presented by ESCO. TA joins the show in-studio to talk about Rudy Gay announcing his retirement (3:16) and then it's all about the Grizzlies 126-123 loss on Monday night to the Chicago Bulls. Chicago hit 25 threes and we'll have a film session and TA explains who was at fault and why the Bulls were having so much success in the second half (6:00). TA also talks about...

10 Things from the Weekend! Grizzlies Weekend (4:53) College Football Impressed and Depressed (35:02) NFL Impressed and Depressed (56:39) Tigers vs Alabama Exhibition (1:12:30) Dwyane Wade Statue (1:14:13) Ja Morant/Nike Popup (1:25:31) World Series (1:36:15) Rasmus Andersson (1:40:55) Reasons To Hate the Chicago Bulls (1:51:11) Tonight (2:02:46)

Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio for the first half hour and we'll get to the Nike/Ja pop-ups going on around town this weekend (3:00) and then go into the Tyreek Smith and Memphis basketball situation, what Smith has gotten paid, what he's supposed to get paid, what other coaches think about this, the Big 12, and more (10:32). College Football weekend preview of Ohio State/Nebraska, Notre Da...

Grizzlies win their season opener in Utah. We'll go through all of it including the Good (Ja, Desmond Bane, Santi Aldama, Jay Huff, Pippen's Defense) and the Meh (Edey, Marcus Smart, Brandon Clarke) and which of all of that is an overreaction or possibly something to monitor. (3:00) Thoughts on the rest of the 10 games in the NBA from last night including Pacers/Pistons and the injury to James Wis...

The Memphis Grizzlies open the 2024-25 NBA season tonight in Utah and we'll talk about the injury report, having a fully healthy Ja Morant and Desmond Bane, who plays more between Brandon Clarke and Santi Aldama, why the first two weeks of this season matter more for Jake LaRavia than anyone else on the roster and more (3:00). NBA Opening Night overreactions on the Celtics rout of the Knicks + LeB...

Tonight is the opening of the 2024-25 NBA season. Tony Allen joins the show Presented by ESCO to preview the season. We'll go team by team in this NBA season preview starting with the Eastern Conference and the Boston Celtics (5:12) Week 7 NFL Notes on Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Saquon Barkley, Jared Goff, and more (1:30:09)

10 Things from the Weekend!!! Grizz Preseason, Yuki 2-Way, JJJ Hamstring (06:15) College Football Impressed w/ Memphis, Georgia, Indiana, LSU, Navy (26:36) College Football Depressed w/ USC, FSU, UCF, Jalen Milroe, Nebraska (46:42) NFL Impressed w/ Chiefs, Lions, Eagles, Steelers (55:05) NFL Depressed w/ 49ers, Injuries, Titans (1:02:22) TV Watching w/ Starting 5 (1:15:12) WNBA Finals (1:29:27) Ti...

The Miami Heat are in town to play the Grizzlies in their final preseason game. Ja Morant and Marcus Smart will play and we talk about Jimmy Butler and why he might be playing in all of these preseason games for the Heat (3:00). Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio to talk about Tony Bennett retiring from Virginia, why he made this decision and why you might see other head coaches leave College B...

Chris is back today and tells us about his trip to Orlando and everything he watched including Starting 5, Piece by Piece, The Penguin and more (3:00) + we go into everything that happened in sports while he was gone including Zach Edey, Yuki and the Luke Kennard injury (20:41) + Zach Randolph and Jarvis Greer getting inducted into the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame (40:44). We'll play Fill In The Bl...

On today's show, Bennett and Devin went to the Hoops for St. Jude Tipoff Classic last night. We'll talk about the Tigers and the aura with UNC basketball + Dawn Staley being one of the coolest people on the planet and how she stayed and took pictures and signed autographs (3:00). ESPN is doing NBA Rank for the Top 100 players in the league. Of course we have thoughts on it (27:23). Jessica Benson...

It's Tueseday's with Tony Allen in-studio presented by ESCO. TA joins the guys in-studio to talk about the Grizzlies preseason win over the Pacers last night, Zach Edey's monster performance, the Grizzlies throwing it to him on the block and all of the matchup problems he can cause other teams defending the Grizz + Yuki's emergence this preseason and if there's a possible spot for him on the roste...

10 THINGS FROM THE WEEKEND!!! College Football Impressed (4:24) College Football Depressed (21:05) NFL Impressed (39:35) NFL Depressed (55:33) Grizz Preseason (1:09:28) Starting 5 & Terrifier 3 & 85 South Show (1:32:31) Hoops for St. Jude Tip-Off Classic (1:46:14) NLCS & ALCS (1:47:33) WNBA Finals (1:48:36) Bills at Jets & Grizz at Pacers (1:49:15)

Gary Parrish joins the show in-studio for the first hour and they’ll talk about the Grizzlies loss to the Hornets last night and what, if anything, we can learn from it (3:05) before going into the world of NIL and how college coaches are using it, what the top high school kids get, Kendrick Perkins and NILLY and if kids are being taken advantage of (13:05). VegasInsider.com Senior Handicapper Bri...

Chris has to apologize (3:00) and then he tells us about watching Starting 5 on Netflix and it turns into a debate about player-produced documentaries. Chris wasn't impressed by the first episode (8:00). Grizzlies have a preseason game tonight at home against the Hornets and we talk about why we think this Hornets team will be better than people and Vegas think (34:11) Jessica Benson joins the sho...

Did you know the University of Memphis is playing North Carolina in an men's exhibition game and the women are playing South Carolina in a women's exhibtion game next week??? We didn't remember either. Our thoughts on why ticket sales might be struggling for the event + Jonathan Givony of ESPN dropped his Top 100 Prospects list (5:04). Ja Morant Injury Update (41:53) FedExForum Food Tasting (52:14...

On today's show, Tony Allen joins the show over Skype live from Las Vegas where he talks about being out there for a Booray tournament and tries to teach us how to play (6:25) before talking about his appearance on last weeks show that went viral over his jokes about the Pelicans. TA tells us who he all heard from, including former teammates in NOLA, and others (14:05) and then we talk about the G...

10 Things from the Weekend!!! College Football Impressed with Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Miami, Ashton Jeanty (10:02) College Football Depressed with FSU, Michigan, Kansas (34:06) Grizzlies Open Practice (42:06) NFL Impressed with Vikings, Jayden Daniels and Underdogs (56:46) NFL Depressed with 49ers, Bengals Defense, Aaron Rodgers, Browns (1:18:13) WWE Bad Blood, Who Wants This, Into The Fire (1:24:14...

Final show of the week and it's Verno's birthday tomorrow (3:50) + we have a stacked College Football slate next weekend which means THIS weekend will be the big one (9:50). Pete Alonso had his moment with the New York Mets last night against Milwaukee (13:30). Damichael Cole covers the Memphis Grizzlies for The Commercial Appeal and joins the show live from Nashville on Zoom. Damichael and Chris...