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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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[–] Grizzlies_Stan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah okay, you can be upset that we took your team & at Steve Francis, but saying “oh look their attendance is bad, they don’t deserve their team” is completely ignoring the fact that the team is currently absurdly injured and in a small population city. Idk what basketball you want to watch, but we’re currently starting:

• A 5’7” G league point guard who our fans over the summer weren’t even sure would ever see meaningful nba minutes

• a center signed off the free agent market out of desperation who, in his 13 seasons of the nba, has only broken 24 MPG twice: his sophomore season, and year 13: the current season (14 mpg last 2 seasons for reference)

• a borderline all-star level shooting guard who is clearly out of his depth being the only person who can do anything on offense

• legit a random wing or big who probably wouldn’t make the 8 man rotation on any healthy, non-wizards/pistons teams

• Reigning DPOY playing a lot of minutes out of his natural position

The team is more crippled than Jimmy from South Park. Our injury list could probably have a better record than our current rotation. Also: the 2019 warriors were 6th in attendance; when Steph & Klay got hurt for 2020, they dropped to 16th. We were 22nd the last 2 seasons, 27th now with all the injuries. We will go back up some when Ja returns. Despite our injuries and small city size, it seems there’s 3 other teams who somehow have less attendance than us still.