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Bring the Grizzlies back to Vancouver (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by AllOutRaptors@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space
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The Memphis Grizzlies are currently selling tickets for as low as $2 per seat. They are averaging the 5th worst attendance in the league at 16, 833 which is worse than half of the Vancouver Grizzlies seasons almost 30 years ago when average attendance league wide was much lower than now.

Am I still petty that Memphis took our team? Absolutely.

But I can also guarantee you'd be hard pressed to find tickets to a Vancouver NBA game for the price of a quarter of a water at Rogers Arena. Not to mention I'm positive that Vancouver could do better than the 5th worst attendance in the league.

I look forward to seeing salty Memphis fans in my DMs, but just remember you would be frustrated too if a worse market stole you're NBA team, and then showed poor support to an actually talented team.

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[–] Supper_Champion@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that the general conclusion is that the team was deliberately mismanaged and sabotaged so that it could eventually be moved to an American market.

When Orca Bay was shopping the team, Michael Heisley promised to keep it in Vancouver, but as soon as the sale was approved he began the process of moving the team.

We all know there was financial issues that contributed to moving the team, but I think from the start, even though the league and owners were willing to expand in to Canada, as soon as the team started it was mismanaged into the ground by Stu Jackson, which set the stage for it's eventual relocation.

Abdur-Rahim and Bibby were decent picks, but drafting Bryant Reeves was a dumb choice. Drafting Steve Francis was an even dumber choice, and probably the nail in the coffin.

[–] Cereal_Lurker@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Meh, Reeves was decent (not good) for a draft pick. One of the few who gave Shaq trouble. It was his extension that was awful.

[–] Cereal_Lurker@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Meh, Reeves was decent (not good) for a draft pick. One of the few who gave Shaq trouble. It was his extension that was awful.