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Everyone in this thread needs to watch the documentary called “the grizzly truth” about how and why we lost the team. It’s well done and a fun piece of basketball nostalgia from that era. I promise I’m not just saying it because I am one of the super fans that is in it. We lost the team because we had individual businesses owners and the Canadian dollar took a nose dive during the formative years which made it really hard financially on the owners. Also we got fucked out of having a top 5 pick for several years and our management blew it by drafting a guy who clearly didn’t want to be here. Yeah Francis should have been an adult about it and gave the city a chance but still, why did we draft him? Fan attendance was never the main issue at all. We showed up pretty fucking well to support a losing product right up until the lockout anyways. That was when overall sentiment towards the league took a nose dive everywhere and the league lost its main box office draw (that would be MJ for the young ones).
It's irritating how so many people think that nobody showed up to the games and we deserved to lose the team. It was a complete fabrication by Michael Heisley after he blatantly lied about his intentions when buying the team
In hindsight it was objectively a terrible business decision as Vancouver would go on to become one of the wealthiest cities in all of North America. Not only that but basketball is and has been wildly popular here for a decade plus
Everything about that relocation was just so, so slimy. Stu Jackson and Michael Heisley are 2 of my least favorite people of all time. Making poor draft choices and not having a great team for 6 years is not enough to warrant relocating the franchise, and I think any sane fan would agree.
I was a very sad 11 year old when they left
In the last season in Vancouver, the Grizzlies were the 27th best team in record and were 28th in attendance. I’m not gonna blame fans for not wanting to see a bad team, and I don’t want anyone to lose their team (esp. as a Kings fan!), but that doesn’t paint the fanbase as anything special.
Are you talking about the season where it was announced that they were leaving before the season opener?
So the fans should flock to the arena and give Michael Heisley their money after he blatantly lied to their faces when he said he wasnt going to move the team?
Lol, ok buddy
Sounds like we have a lot in common.
Hate David Stern.
It's irritating how so many people think that nobody showed up to the games and we deserved to lose the team. It was a complete fabrication by Michael Heisley after he blatantly lied about his intentions when buying the team
In hindsight it was objectively a terrible business decision as Vancouver would go on to become one of the wealthiest cities in all of North America. Not only that but basketball is and has been wildly popular here for a decade plus
Everything about that relocation was just so, so slimy. Stu Jackson and Michael Heisley are 2 of my least favorite people of all time. Making poor draft choices and not having a great team for 6 years is not enough to warrant relocating the franchise, and I think any sane fan would agree.
I was a very sad 11 year old when they left