Legion Hoops,<\/a> James says, “Memphis on a f*cking random a*s Thursday. I’m not like the first guy to even talk about it in the NBA. We all, like, ‘You guys have to move. Just go over to Nashville. You got Vanderbilt over there, you got the f*cking NASCAR, you got a stadium. Don’t they got a hockey team? Like, they’ve got everything.”<\/p>\nLeBron James Demands Move For Grizzlies<\/p>\n
While these statements in particular are being looked at as him whining, he also said this: “Their only chance was in 2003 if they would’ve won the lottery to get me,” James said in regard to his current and past lack of interest of playing for the Grizzlies. “And I might’ve pulled an Eli Manning and not shown up.” <\/p>\n
If you’re not in the know, ex-Giants quarterback Eli Manning infamously informed the then San Diego Chargers to trade him after drafting him in the 2004 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Overall, folks in the comments are letting James hear it. “What an amazing ambassador for the NBA,” one says sarcastically. Another replies, “Bro yapping when he has his bag, follow his advice at your own demise [laughing emoji].”<\/p>\n
A third doesn’t spare James one bit. “Memphis has soul, BBQ, blues, and real hoops culture while Akron was the one you ran from twice. Veteran whining about road games is wild when the league pays you millions to show up. Moving the team talk is just salty. Play the game, king.”<\/p>\n
Again, though, James isn’t alone on this take. As we said, Draymond Green shares this opinion. On his namesake podcast, he spoke honestly about the city and the lack of amenities and places of interest. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are\u00a0no 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, there\u2019s not a sauna or a hot tub in sight. No where. Not at the gym, not at the spa, not at a hotel, nothing,” he said in part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been the home for the Grizzlies for nearly 25 years, but James is really hoping they move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,87524,185,293,177,4070,6,67,25253,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-694720","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-internet-debate","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-memphis","13":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","14":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-relocation","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337385582332040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694720","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=694720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}