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Bring the Grizzlies back to Vancouver (alien.top)

submitted 10 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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[–] HardcoreKaraoke@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As someone from Jersey I wish they would. The whole "cool" rebrand Jay-Z and Prokhorov tried to do didn't work. They wanted to try and take over NYC basketball, which was fucking hilarious at the time. The Knicks can be awful and the Garden is still sold out every night. The Nets moving to Brooklyn was never going to take over NYC.

All it did was alienate Jersey fans. It's like if the Devils moved to Brooklyn. Jersey fans would feel betrayed and Rangers fans would be like "okay welcome to the city little brother lol." Hell I remember when they put the Islanders in Barclays (what a trainwreck for so many reasons) and that blew up. You aren't taking NYC from the Rangers and Knicks.

They should cut a deal with the Prudential Center so they can bring the team back to Jersey. The Devils have passionate fans because they're Jerseys own. The Nets had that too and would get it again.

No way it happens though.

[–] spacejamisraw@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Them moving to Brooklyn has not been a failure in any aspect. I get being upset as a Jersey fan but attendance is better, the fanbase is building, it’s more of an attractive destination for free agents and the arena is nicer.

In Jersey the Nets didn’t sell out one of their home Finals games which is insane. It was clearly the right move to move