Need a Tenneesee city power ranking, surely they can be top 3 there.

Whatever that list looks like, ESPN would probably put Boston in it twice

Fun times in Cleveland today! Cleveland! Come on down to Cleveland town everyone! Come and look at both of our buildings!

5000 years ago Memphis Egypt was probably the most important city in the world.

Memphis, Egypt maybe

He’s obviously talking about Memphis, MI. Gateway into St. Clair County!

Yessir. Thats where all my companies FedEx packages go to get lost forever multiple times a week.

Close, but I think Hong Kong passed Memphis a few years ago.

it’s definitely one of the cities in Tennessee I won’t argue with that

there are like 3 other cities in tennessee if rather live in lol

Most people aren’t really drawn to a place because of it’s history, that can be a point of pride for the locals or an interesting focal point for a short trip but when it comes to people who travel talking about a city they care about maybe four things total. Comfort, entertainment, aesthetics and ease of travel. I live in Kansas City, great place to live and a wonderful city all around. Terrible place to visit because the entertainment scene sucks and there’s not a ton for young, exciting people to do except visit mid-tier bars.

Yes. But if you’re listing things that happened 60 or 70 years ago, that says a lot about the current state of the city.

It has some incredible history in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s… which matters not at all if you’re living in 2026 and want to be in a place that is clean and in good shape with a good food and culture scene and low crime.

It was once a very relevant and consequential place. There are many cities that have an influence on the larger culture of the whole country - think about New York or LA or Chicago and the outsized influence they have on the rest of the country. But Memphis is not relevant to anything that happens outside its own city limits anymore, and hasn’t been for decades.

Yes, it absolutely is. Important city in the US in the 20th century.

May I ask how you became a Grizz fan if you’re not American? Seems like an interesting and uncommon choice.

The story made it over to the Marriot subreddit and according to those road warriors. It’s bad.

It’s probably not even bad but they’re used to amazing shit, NBA takes care of it’s players and i bet if it’s something that’s not insanely luxurious they cry about it

It’s four stars instead of 5 stars and doesn’t come with the complimentary threesome like the bigger NBA cities have

A lot of racial tension there as well

Heavy is the billionaire head that took a shot a small market.

Danny Green and Draymond have both said that the team should get relocated to Nashville too

ANT said it looked like his hotel bed had doodoo on it.

How about you actually provide a source instead of spreading misinformation? Danny Green never said this

Where??

It’s a Westin. Ya it’s fine, but as a paying customer when the floor hasn’t been vacuumed and there’s hair in the sink I know no one in housekeeping gives a shit. Which is fine. It’s just a job, but why am I paying $300+?

The real issues with a 4 star hotel would be more apparent if you traveled professionally. The lack of ²⁴⁄₇ in-room dining is a real bummer when you get in at 2 am. The ability to ask for anything from a 5 star menu is clutch. In-room dining doesn’t have the ribeye cooked to order on the menu? Just ask. The kitchen will make it. You want a wine off the cellar menu? Someone is going to bring it up. You’ve stayed here before and loved the Burgundy? A bottle will be waiting for you on arrival pre-chilled. My guess is the complaints center around food, and service, primarily at 5 am when these guys are usually arriving or leaving the hotels.

At this level of pro-travel you aren’t paying for a hotel experience. You are paying for a bed ready when you need it, and staff that can assist in feeding 15 athletes at 3 am after a game. 5 star hotels can do this. 4 star hotels have beds ready between 6 pm and 6 am. Anything else is between you and Marriott corporate.

hotel stars have to do with amenities, a 4 star hotel can still suck

They claim its very untidy in that Hotel and have poor customer service

4 star hotels are for business salespeople and consultants traveling weekly. They’re perfectly fine, but they are nowhere near the lifestyle that professional athletes are used to.

I’m sure the players can and do deal with it for a night here and there, but I’m also not surprised that they whine about it.

Vernon Maxwell shits on Utah because he hates Utah. If the Jazz relocated tomorrow, he would still shit on Utah. The man hates Utah with the fiery passion of a 1000 Suns.

How did Memphis get the grizzlies?

I’m not going to act like I don’t get that, but also…LeBron doesn’t own the team. He has nothing to do with Memphis besides playing there a few times a year. So…yeah it doesn’t really matter. This has become a multi-day media saga.

comrade perk?

Mind you it’s a 3+ billion dollar organization. Asking for them to throw a 100m towards facilities isn’t that crazy. Asking other billionaires to help a billionaire is kind of crazy.

Like asking Bezos to help Elon build new employee break rooms lol.

You’re right, I might have given big percocet too much credit lol. The team owner definitely should be helping with that 

Haven’t read that book but shouldn’t be surprising, the wealthy rule America and the world. When there is even a slim opportunity to profit or cut costs, a company will push legal and moral boundaries ¹⁰⁄₁₀ times.

More Perfect Union did a mini-doc on xAI’s data center near Memphis that went viral nearly a year ago. They have all the resources in the world and use it to take advantage of underdeveloped areas to bypass environmental regulations.

https://youtu.be/3VJT2JeDCyw

This is also in the wheelhouse of climate justice, where environmental and social justice intersect.

Sure, just from googling it I’ve found that Ai data centers are causing air pollution, and since they put them near poor neighborhoods it increases health issues for people that live near them related to heart and lung disease.   https://hbr.org/2025/11/mitigating-the-public-health-impacts-of-ai-data-centers

Also I remember reading this article about bitcoin data center causing tons of health issues in Texas. Its not AI but it shows how tech billionaires and conservative politicians put profits over the lives of people. https://time.com/6982015/bitcoin-mining-texas-health/

“Bron! You! Me! Hell in a cell Saturday night! Can I get a hell yeah?!”

“I hereby challenge LeBron to a debate!”

So much of what should matter most to NBA players is only possible because of history Memphis is heavily intertwined in. For civil rights history it’s one of the most important cities in the country. It’s also the largest majority-black city in the country IIRC.

Huh, what are you saying? Clearly black people who do live in Memphis are angered too. That’s the entire point of this article, coming from the black Mayor of Memphis

I always liked the view from the hotel at the Ren Cen because the view was just unrivaled. I think the Fidelity is now the cool kids hotel in Cleveland, Ritz is where all the visiting teams stay tho

It’s worth visiting for the historical significance, but tbf to you that’s still a separate conversation

Yea, and the Babylon Anzus haven’t been a playoff team since 1595. The sacking pretty much shut them down.

I’m pretty sure Baghdad and Damascus are historically more important cities than Memphis on a global scale. I ain’t going to those places for vacation, and complaining like hell if I need to swing by for work. Same goes for Memphis and multimillionaire to billionaires.

Redditors don’t give a fuck about civil rights, you gotta meet them where they’re at to convince them. Advertise stuff that suburban teens would think is cool/important, that’s how you get them.

Bro really said buy the public safety dip