Calkins: It was a surreal night on Beale Street — and everything Penny Hardaway dreamed
Let’s start wth the verdict. Straight from Penny Hardaway.
What was it like to move Memphis Madness to Beale Street? To have a basketball hoop and Memphis Pom and Wet Willie’s and cobblestones and open containers of beer all in the same place?
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“I loved everything about tonight,” Hardaway said. “Everything about it, man. I couldn’t have dreamed of a better situation (for the players). I wanted them to experience Memphis and they got Memphis today.”