In 2019, an entity connected to Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant bought a home in Eads.
Mountain Brook Cove Land Trust paid $1.334 million for the house. That transaction was recorded in August 2019, about six weeks after Morant was drafted second overall by the Grizzlies, and a month after he signed his rookie contract, a four-year, $39.6 million deal.
In July 2022, Morant — who became a global superstar in the intervening years — agreed to a designated rookie maximum extension with the…