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Bring the Grizzlies back to Vancouver (alien.top)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] beso760@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Vancouver wasn't given a chance, man. NBA let a similar thing happen in SD, the Clippers left after only a few years, and a whopping 0 playoff appearances.

Ideally, I think the NBA could support a team in both Seattle and Vancouver, and it would be great for the Blazers too. I feel like the owners don't want to split the pie up more unless there's going to be a huge boost in revenue in doing so, however. They'd rather have like a European division than add another 2 teams in NA.

I wonder what position the Raptors play in this. Since the Grizz left, they changed their color scheme to match that of Canada's team essentially, and the 'We The North' branding is generally Canadian, rather than just for Toronto. I imagine they like being the only team in Canada, though I wish they just went back to purple.

I don't think the Grizzlies are moving anytime soon, but I hope Vancouver gets a new team, and the nba expands in general.