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The Memphis Grizzlies are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Grizzlies compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division.

The Grizzlies play their home games at FedExForum.

The team is owned by Robert Pera.

The Grizzlies are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues based in the city of Memphis.

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County.

The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.

The University of Memphis, also called The U of M, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee.

Founded in 1912, the University has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students.

With twenty-five Chairs of Excellence and five state-approved Centers of Excellence, the school is the flagship institution of The Tennessee Board of Regents system.

The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, The E.W.

Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.

The 2016 purchase by Gannett of Journal Media Group (Scripps' direct successor) effectively gave it control of the two major papers in western and central Tennessee, uniting the Commercial Appeal with Nashville's The Tennessean.

The Memphis-Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN-MS-AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of The Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn.

The census defined combined statistical area covers ten counties in three states – Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

As of census 2010 the MSA had a population of 1,324,108.

The Forrest City Micropolitan area was added to the Memphis area in 2012 to form the Memphis-Forrest City Combined Statistical area and had a population of 1,369,548 according to census estimates.

The greater Mid-South area as a whole has a population of 2.4 million according to 2013 census estimates.

This area is covered by Memphis local news channels and includes the Missouri Bootheel, Northeast Arkansas, West Tennessee, and North Mississippi.