{"id":559147,"date":"2026-04-01T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559147\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:47:07","slug":"grizzlies-f-brandon-clarke-arrested-in-arkansas-on-reckless-driving-controlled-substance-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559147\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies F Brandon Clarke arrested in Arkansas on reckless driving, controlled substance allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was arrested in Arkansas on Wednesday, Cross County jail records show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Action News 5<\/a>, Cross County sheriff David West said Clarke was arrested on allegations of speeding, reckless driving and possessing a controlled substance. He was booked at 1:03 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n

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The arrest comes at the end of a lost season for the 29-year-old Clarke, who has played only two games over the course of 2025-26. He missed the beginning of the season while dealing with knee inflammation, then sustained a calf injury in his second game back in December that has prevented him from playing since.<\/p>\n

A return seemed possible for Clarke after that, but the Grizzlies announced last week<\/a> that he would miss the remainder of the season after new imaging showed he needed additional healing to be cleared for high-intensity court work.<\/p>\n

Once a reliable rotation player for the Grizzlies, Clarke has been a sporadic presence over the past three years. He tore his Achilles in March 2023, causing him to miss the end of the season and all but six games in 2023-24. He came back healthy in 2024-25, but again missed the end of the season after sustaining a PCL strain.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies drafted Clarke 21st overall in 2019. He is tied with Ja Morant as the longest-tenured player on the team\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke was arrested in Arkansas on Wednesday, Cross County jail records show. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[109036,247963,247964,22714,7741,355,76109,99,84155],"class_list":{"0":"post-559147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brandon-clarke","9":"tag-controlled-substance","10":"tag-david-west","11":"tag-ja-morant","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-reckless-driving","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-grizzlies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}