{"id":668396,"date":"2026-03-20T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/668396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:29:24","slug":"nashville-mayor-not-focused-on-moving-grizzlies-to-city-after-draymond-greens-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/668396\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Mayor Not Focused on Moving Grizzlies to City After Draymond Green\u2019s Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nashville Mayor
\n Sorry, Draymond Green
\n Moving Grizzlies Here Not on Agenda<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 20, 2026
\n 12:30 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Draymond Green<\/a>‘s wish isn’t getting granted anytime soon — relocating the Memphis Grizzlies to Nashville isn’t on the Music City mayor’s to-do list.<\/p>\n

The Golden State Warriors star has been vocal about how he doesn’t like playing in Memphis … and recently, he went as far as to say he’d love it if the NBA relocated the Grizzlies 200 miles east.<\/p>\n

“Do everybody a favor and move that team to Nashville,” Green said on his podcast this week.<\/p>\n

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The Draymond Green Show<\/p>\n

“There’s no great hotels in Memphis. I love the people of Memphis. They are incredible. Shout out to the people of Memphis. I love them, but just from an NBA standpoint, man — there’s not a sauna or a hot tub in sight.”<\/p>\n

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Well, we reached out to Mayor Freddie O’Connell to see if he would consider Green’s suggestion … and unfortunately for him, it doesn’t sound like a priority.<\/p>\n

“I love Memphis and the Grizzlies,” Mayor O’Connell said.<\/p>\n

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“They do training camps here, and we\u2019d love to see them play a few games here, but our most recent bids have been for professional women\u2019s teams.”<\/p>\n

Nashville is already home to several major teams — the Titans, Predators, Nashville SC — along with college teams Vanderbilt, Belmont, and Tennessee State in the area, too.<\/p>\n

Music City has been booming in recent years, with rapid growth that makes it an intriguing option for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to consider … but like the mayor said — there are other things going on to get excited about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Mayor Sorry, Draymond Green Moving Grizzlies Here Not on Agenda Published March 20, 2026 12:30 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6,67,66,83,2228],"class_list":{"0":"post-668396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116260569916331930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}