Bob Does Sports<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week, where he revealed his thoughts about the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\nHe brought them up, relatively unprompted, as he was asked how NBA travel has impacted him as he’s gotten older. James called out Milwaukee before teeing off on Memphis.<\/p>\n
“Being in Memphis on a f***ing\u00a0random ass Thursday,” James said. “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***ing NASCAR, you got a stadium. Don’t they got a hockey team? Like, they’ve got everything.”<\/p>\n
When the hosts joked that James wouldn’t be joining the Grizzlies\u00a0anytime soon, he used it as an opportunity to take more jabs at the city.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, they know,” he said. “Their only chance was in 2003 if they would have\u00a0won the lottery…and I might have pulled an Eli Manning\u00a0and not shown up.”<\/p>\n
Not exactly sure that\u00a0these are\u00a0reasons why Memphis is\u00a0referred to as the Home of the Blues.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, a couple of NBA coaches rushed to the city’s defence, including\u00a0Rajakovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t care what the rest of the world thinks,\u201d he said. \u201cI have my opinion. I love the people of Memphis.”<\/p>\n
Rajakovi\u0107 was an assistant coach for the Grizzlies between 2020 and 2023, before he was named head coach of the Raptors.<\/p>\n
“I had an amazing time living here, spending time in East Memphis and Germantown. I love the food. I enjoy every visit back. I like running by the Mississippi River, and I love Shelby County. I had an amazing experience here, and I truly loved living in Memphis. That\u2019s my perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, the Raptors were in Memphis on Thursday night, where they defeated the Grizzlies 128-96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darko Rajakovi\u0107 doesn’t seem to care what LeBron James thinks. At least, that’s the case when it pertains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,5891,517,516,6,5892,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-697988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-darko","10":"tag-james","11":"tag-lebron","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rajakovic","14":"tag-raptors","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-raptors","17":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116347270913165224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697988","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=697988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}