Akron has no good Hyatts

LeBron is hilarious

Damn, so no Cleveland for the retirement tour.

Always thought it would be hard for him to wanna play in the cold for 3 months. In LA he can golf in the middle of “winter” with no issues

What’s so nice about Cleveland anyway?

Does anybody say they’re going on vacation

to Cleveland?

Did he really say that? If so, I’ve never related more to LeBron haha 

He didn’t ask for Cleveland to be moved to Columbus.(idk the Ohio equivalent of Nashville)

Lexpedia

HoLeDay Inn

Brondorf Astoria

Ebrono Lodge

InterBrontinental

No Roof Inn

LeQuinta inn.

God dammit. There is no end to originality in this meme.

Cleveland! This is NOT for you!

What even is in Akron lmao

LeBron not going back to the Cavs CONFIRMED!

/s

Joakim knew what was up

“Sir, a second M city has been hit”

The hotel they stay at, the Phister, is haunted.

He’s hinting he wants Giannis to join the Lakers

Too cold, like I’m from there, but I get it. Nobody would say anything if the season ran during the summer. Never heard an opposing baseball player complain.

At first I was like, “Fuck Lebron.”

Then I realized its just classism. Lebron just doesn’t like working class cities. Lebron is a billionaire, he isn’t looking for amenities that cater towards young urban professionals - he wants exclusivity.

I love Milwaukee with all my heart - part of what makes me love Milwaukee though is that it is a working class city and it’s amenities are designed around that. Whenever I get the chance to head back home and visit Milwaukee, it never feels inaccessible.

Milwaukee wasn’t built to cater to Lebron, it’s built to cater to the people.

Completely unrelated, but remember in the bubble when the quality of hotel teams were staying at was determined by their seeding? What a hilarious time.

The director of sales at that hotel is having a real bad time right now

lol is that the main / only nice hotel there?

What’s wrong with it?

I know in MLB it isn’t unheard of for players to stay at an AirBnB.

The hotel they stay at in Milwaukee is the Pfister & because of the rumors/legend of it being haunted, some players do AirBnBs in Milwaukee (I know Mookie Betts does that).

I imagine the manager shuffling out like a hostage video and apologizing in a shaky voice

major 

This is the best PR for Memphis yet

It’s not that he asked for them to be relocated.

It’s that he said relocated to Nashville that set off a lot of this.

yea the thing people are mad at is saying they should be relocated. bro literally played in cleveland

Exactly. Saying he wants a team relocated is way more inflammatory than saying he doesn’t like the standard accommodations. He should know that his comment wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much traction without the Nashville part.

Lebron defeated Oklahoma in 2012, is he opposed to indigenous heritage and the Five Tribes?

Must be from this sub.

I will always remember an upvoted comment in this sub when lakers lost vs suns in 2021 and lebron left without a handshake and someone said lebron is the liberal Malcolm X warned about has to be more than 5 times.

This place gets absolutely deranged when it comes to lebron

LeUncle Ruckus

I seen someone

You can literally find any opinion on the internet. If you react to every comment you see, you’re going to waste a lot of time.

The fact that he specifically said move it Nashville is probably what set people off. Going from like the blackest big city in the south to the whitest has some optics.

I need brons hotel rankings now more than anything. Bottom two are clear

It’s funny, on one hand people claim to want hot mics on the court to hear players authentic thoughts.

But when Rich Paul or Draymond Green or Daryl Morey or anyone states their authentic thoughts on a mic off the court, they lose their fucking minds!

He’s free to say what he wants, and I’m free to call him a bitch for wanting us to be in Nashville. It’s a two way street, my friend. I don’t have to kiss the ring because he’s LeBron James.

I have a slight problem because when sentiments like these gain enough momentum they * could lead to or expedite * a franchise being moved out of a city, especially coming from LeBron who is both a GOAT and potential future owner of a team.

Like in the case of the Bucks rn, we might be headed to a Washington Wizards level rebuild in the worst case, which is happening to coincide with a transfer of ownership. We aren’t that far removed from conversations about the Bucks being taken out of MKE.

Seriously. Dude was out bullshiting on the golf course and everyone wants to act like he held a press conference to say this.

But outrage sells. So everyone and they mama will jump on it for some attention.

Idk, people are allowed to be mad that a billionaire is so flippantly dismissing their right to a franchise because they’re a lower tier city, something that is without a doubt, due in large part to historical inequality.

The north american notion of just up and moving a team from a city is so foreign to every other sports league on the planet, because people actually tie their hometown identity to their sports, and this is another example of a capitalist getting so far removed from where he started that he doesn’t see why people would be mad about losing their team to nashville.

“At least Minneapolis had Prince”

State capitals tend to have at least one really nice hotel, to accommodate politicians and lobbyists. 

JW Marriott is nice, and just got a brand new intercontinental 

Indy has a disportionate number of downtown hotels comparatively speaking due to all the conventions we host. Some are definitely luxary - JW, Conrad, Hyatt (the one across from Gainbridge), The Alexander. There are at least two more high end hotels being built now and a total of 5 (?) new hotels being built downtown. Indy I believe has the large number of connected hotel rooms to a single convention center and this is before all the new hotels.

Gencon, the largest tabletop and RPG convention, alone brings 70,000 people and could be bigger and will be thanks to the convention center expansion. The FAA (Future Farmers of America) national convention is pretty large. The Indianapolis 500 is the world’s largest single day sporting event with over 300,000 people in attendance. The NFL combine. Indianapolis hosts a lot of large, public, high profile events all year round plus all the little events. There is something constantly ongoing.

Right? Like we ain’t going through enough over here with the Giannis bullshit

The hotel they stay at there is supposedly haunted! It’s a whole thing.

Kanye give me you phone neeowww

Not being in the bottom 2 feels like a big W fr, though as Collin Sexton said, “This shit is nice as hell”

People might be coming around to SLC not being a bottom tier place

The Pawnee/Eagleton comparison is great. I’m definitely stealing that.

If that’s all he said nobody would have cared nearly as much. But he said a lot more and asked for the team to be moved to Nashville.

Seems like building a better hotel would be easier solution than moving Memphis to Nashville

Idk, saying they should move the team would annoy me too if I was a fan.

I just think he wasn’t thinking that deep into it, like i get why people from Memphis obviously didn’t like it. But I feel like saying “I wish this thing was in a city I liked more” is a pretty universal thing

I can’t believe the amount of people here claiming that all he said was the hotels suck, he literally said verbatim the team should be relocated to Nashville. How are Memphis fans supposed to react to that???

Most NBA cities have a Four Seasons or Ritz the teams stay at. The ones that don’t are like Memphis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, OKC, Indianapolis, maybe a few others.