OP has their chicken and egg backwards

Zach Edey barely played this year, literally no reason to go to a Grizzlies game

I need to link this post whenever someone asks why Lakers games are so expensive. Then I will link to the wiki picture of a supply/demand curve.

Sure but I think they covered this in the post. Lots of teams stink. Many of those teams still sell more tickets than Memphis, even when those teams have stunk for a lot longer.

Counterpoint: Saints attendance.

I don’t know if they always sell out, but Sacramento fans have always supported their team. San Antonio isn’t as broke or a small as it used to be, but they’ve had amazing fans since the 70s.

And no offense, but if small poor cities can’t support their team there’s a much bigger rich-ass city that would love to have a team again. If expansion falls through, I imagine there will be serious discussions about relocation to Seattle.

Poor has nothing to do with it when tickets are $1. I would kill to be able to go to an nba game for that amount

I got to sit courtside in New Orleans cause of y’alls prices while I was out there on a business trip. Experience of a lifetime that I literally could not have afforded at just about any other teams game

Despite being the hottest city, a lot of Phoenix houses have pools

Damn it this was good 

The one time Reddit becomes so concerned with the ultra rich not making the maximum amount of money possible. Cheering to move the team so billionaires and multimillionaires can squeeze out a bit more revenue sharing lol

It’s incredibly frustrating and anytime we try to defend ourselves, we take even more shit.

Yeah, they’re talking about Memphis how people used to talk about Detroit or Cleveland, they getting bullied fr

Relocation is one of the shittiest parts of pro sports so people advocating for it are shitty as well

They’re trying to say it’s a Memphis problem, when in reality the team just sucks. They had no problem supporting the Grit and Grind team. It’s really the league wanting a city where they can make more money, because you can’t charge as high for tickets in Memphis due to the small population combined with their average income

just recently learned about the kentucky colonels and it would be horrible imo for the region to lose another team because billionaires aren’t making enough money

Yes, and Nashville doesn’t support bad teams. All this talk of moving and they’re essentially betting on people who are tourists to support the team. Somehow the millionaires have fooled regular people into supporting this rhetoric cause they want better hotels and amenities when they travel to a city for 2 days.

My friend literally thought jjj was still on this team half way through the season

• GG Jackson
• Zach Edey
• Ja Mor- ah no wait
• fuck who did they even trade JJJ for
• who did they trade Bane for? cole anthony? is cole anthony on that team?
• i give up

It’s also not quite as big of deal as people make it. They’re less than 1,000 people per game fewer than the Hawks, Kings, and Wizards and just over a 1,000 behind the Bucks with a less interesting team than any of them.

http://www.insidehoops.com/attendance.shtml

The real issue is the absolutely garbage medical staff. 2 games for Clarke, 10 for Pippen, 11 for Edey, 15 for Jerome, 20 for Jah, 55 for GG. KCP has been an ironman, never playing fewer than 67 games and that was in a covid shortened year, then gets traded to Memphis and plays 51. There are dudes on the roster, they just don’t play.

They probably have a bottom 3 medical/training team with the Pels and Bulls. Looks worse when Bane, Huff, and LaRavia all play 82 games for the first time in their first year away from the team.

I think Coward is going to be good and Edey is going to be a stud if he can play.

The FO actively shut down the season at the trade deadline. We weren’t competitive or even trying to be competitive for most of the season. Of course fans aren’t going to support that.

OKC and Memphis have had some great playoff series. Memphis pops off when the team is competitive. I dare you to find a better playoff environment when the fans start chanting “Whoop that trick”

Oklahoma City has also put a lot of effort in building up brick town and other areas near the OKC arena. Downtown Memphis is not safe at night any more. It used to have a great vibe, but current economics have hurt the city a lot, and even Beale street is dead, when it used to light up when games let out.

Wouldn’t it be more fun to try adding grizzlies to Memphis?

Would love for Vancouver to get a basketball team again. I’m biased because I love that city, but they deserve it.

I’d be terrified that Aquilini would try and own a new Vancouver team

Even though I do completely agree it’s a bit ironic for a Thunder fan to be saying this about the Grizzlies when both teams are products of relocation

Is that the OKC Thunder flair I see?

That’s a real nice glass house you have there

Its the team sucking, trading away the fan favorite in JJJ, and having the malcontent Ja Morant in street clothes every night. That’s killed all the interest the casual fan could have.

100% I live in Memphis, Memphis fucking loves the Grizzlies, but how you show up to watch a team play G-leaguers. And not just g-leaguers but like the middle of the team g-leaguers, not even the best ones. Both Orlando Robinson and Dixon would’ve been a great fit to get some real minutes on the injured grizzlies, but they might’ve actually made the product better and possibly win them games so they stayed in the g-league.

Memphis’s median income? $50,000…with nearly a quarter of the population living at or below the poverty line

What are the ticket prices like when the team is doing well? European so have no idea

The Hornets led the league in attendance for 10 years straight. Two year later they relocated to New Orleans. That was a gut punch for us Hornets fans.

I’ve been on both ends of team relocation in different sports. Losing your team sucks and makes you care about the whole league less. It feels like losing part of your identity. It’s a big reason why I’m actively excited for Seattle to get the Sonics back.

Agreed, their arena was rocking during the GNG and earlier Ja eras.

Field a good team, get good attendance.

I think you were exaggerating but then realised 33 players have suited for Memphis this season… good lord, when did we went from 15 men roster + 2 G-leaguers to this?

Crazy thing is that Memphis still had some young and interesting guys in GG, Coward and Wells…

Part of it is a Memphis issue. The year they won 56 games they were 21st in attendance. During the peak of grit and grind I see them at 18th.

And that Thunder team finished with a 40–42 record. I’m curious what OKC’s attendance numbers would be if they were bad for more than a couple of seasons.

And that’s why I always point out Utah is actually a great location for expansion and such for nhl, mlb, etc when it comes up. People in Utah just love sports. Tons of college fans already for everything. Really good attendance even when teams suck. It’s a smaller market but people just love sports in Utah

I legit might get banned from r/nba when Washington is finally good

Seriously. If I was in Memphis, my whole life would probably revolve around the team cause the rest of TN gives the very obvious middle finger to yall

Dont forget \(25 for parking and \)25 for food and drink if you get hungry. God help you if you want a beer

And nobody wants to sit in the nosebleeds to watch a bunch of literal g leaguers who won’t be on the team next year, even for cheap.

Yeah! They were TWO dollars!

Its an easy target because we are the smallest market in the entire league (depending on where you look. Some places have New Orleans right below us. Others have us above)

Reddit loves their insufferable narratives especially when they start to take off.