{"id":697289,"date":"2026-04-04T05:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:24:46","slug":"grizzlies-hc-responds-to-lebron-james-nashville-relocation-comments-after-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697289\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies HC Responds to LeBron James&#8217; Nashville Relocation Comments After Viral Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">LeBron James ruffled the feathers of many NBA fans this week when he said that the Memphis Grizzlies should move to Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Grizzlies head coach Tuomas Iisalo pushed back on James&#8217; comments, speaking positively of the city that he moved to two years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I can say from my own perspective that I have the complete opposite &#8212; 180-degree perspective on that,&#8221; Iisalo <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48390014\/2-nba-head-coaches-push-back-lebron-james-memphis-remark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> Friday. &#8220;The Memphis where we have arrived less than two years ago has been very warm. Very welcoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">During an appearance on the &#8220;Bob Does Sports&#8221; YouTube channel earlier this week, James said that it is a common opinion that the Grizzlies should relocate to Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;In Memphis on a f&#8212;ing random ass Thursday,&#8221; James said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not like the first guy to even talk about it in the NBA, we all like, &#8216;You guys have to move. Just go over to Nashville.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25407406-nba-expansion-teams-las-vegas-seattle-reportedly-eyed-whats-timeline-vote-debut-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBA expansion<\/a> seemingly on the horizon, talks of relocating some of the smaller market teams like the Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz have come up, though not by NBA officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Nashville would technically be a bigger market for the Grizzlies, but it would be hard to beat the atmosphere and passion found at a Memphis home game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;All I can say is Memphis is the right place for the Grizzlies,&#8221; Iisalo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James ruffled the feathers of many NBA fans this week when he said that the Memphis Grizzlies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-697289","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116344773919262333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697289","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=697289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}