MEMPHIS – All eyes in the room locked in on the oversized image hanging on the wall in the Memphis Grizzlies players’ lounge, just as Elliot Perry answered someone’s question by posing another.
“What does it mean to you?” responded Perry, a Memphis native who played a decade in the NBA and is currently a Grizzlies executive. “A lot of these works challenge your imagination, your perception and what you take away from it. So, really, it’s about asking (yourself), ‘what does it mean to you?’”
Perry was speaking with players, coaches and staffers from the NBA G League’s Memphis Hustle on a recent afternoon as he guided the group through a tour of modern and contemporary African-American Art.