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

I always love when people who have no clue what happened in Vancouver back when we had our team decide to offer their pearls of wisdom.

Team was the worst in NBA history yet still bought tickets at a higher rate than would be expected. We were totally screwed by unfair lottery rules, prima donna idiot players who thought they'd have to buy a dog sled team to get around the snowy climes and refused to play, and at the end outright fraud as numerous companies that wanted to buy thousands of season tickets were literally denied them, because selling tickets hurt the narrative of 'we have to move because no one is buying tickets'.