Grizz/Jazz, JJJ Return, Penny Hardaway Feeling the Pressure, NBA Team Building in 2026 - 2/20/26

Chris Vernon Show

Grind City Media

Sports

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

We'll open the show with Gary Parrish in-studio and we'll joke around for a little bit before getting into the battle of injury reports tonight between the Grizzlies and Jazz (3:00). We'll then move to talking about the Tigers loss last night to South Florida and Penny Hardaway's emotional press conference, how the season is taking a toll on him, if he'll return next season to coach the Tigers, how to build a college roster with the money they have available and more (16:00). Jaren Jackson Jr returns to the Forum tonight as a member of the Jazz. We'll discuss how emotional his video tribute will be, if Jitty will also get one and then Chris talks about team buliding in the NBA in 2026 and how it has changed from even 5 years ago. Will young teams be the new wave due to the salary cap implications of what you have to pay guys outside of their rookie contracts now??? (1:14:34)

Host: Chris Vernon
Contributors: Jon Roser, Devin Walker
Guest: Gary Parrish
Technical Director: Jaylon Wallace
Associate Producer: Jena Broyles

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0:00.0	Live from downtown Memphis, this is the Chris Vernon Show on YouTube at Grind City Media and the official Grind City Media.
0:11.9	Now, here's your host, Chris Vernon.
0:18.5	For once, once in your life, won't you do what feels right?
0:25.6	Said I'm waiting for the next big compromise.
0:30.6	Stop running your mouth, get out of the house, get yourself downtown And shake it all out tonight
0:41.3	I don't have friends that pitch
0:48.3	Fuck or enemy
0:50.3	No sexy heroin addiction plaguing me
0:55.6	But I can still get down like
0:59.6	Frank Poncharello on a motorbike
1:06.0	Once, once in your life
1:10.6	Won't you to what feels.
1:12.8	Here we go.
1:14.4	It's noon on Grand City Media.com.
1:16.1	It's Chris Farronan.
1:16.9	Show.
1:17.4	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
1:18.7	It is the Friday, February 20th, 2020, 2006 edition of the show.
1:22.8	Today on the show, Grizzly's going to be back in action tonight for the first time post all
1:29.8	star break, a home game against the Utah Jazz. We will get you ready for that and make the most
1:36.8	challenging sky dog pick of the year on the show today. In addition to that, Penny Hardaway got emotional about his team last night.
1:47.1	We will get to that.
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