{"id":698858,"date":"2026-04-05T01:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:53:28","slug":"lebron-doubles-down-on-memphis-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698858\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron doubles down on Memphis comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; From sports media pundits to Mayor Paul Young, everyone has chimed in on the comments from recent NBA players about their experiences in Memphis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lebron James has now responded to the backlash from his latest comments about moving the Grizzlies to Nashville<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lebron James first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/04\/04\/lebron-james-faces-backlash-grizzlies-faithful-after-suggesting-team-should-move-nashville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/04\/04\/lebron-james-faces-backlash-grizzlies-faithful-after-suggesting-team-should-move-nashville\/\">made headlines <\/a>earlier in the week when he said the Grizzlies should move to Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">James also said he might have pulled a \u201cEli Manning\u201d and refused to play for the Grizzlies if they drafted him in back in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; From sports media pundits to Mayor Paul Young, everyone has chimed in on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[5271,7,4500,5270,5266,5269,294,5264,293,177,4070,5263,5268,6,5267,5272,5262,5273,5274,5265,5259,5261,5260],"class_list":{"0":"post-698858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-bartlett","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-collierville","12":"tag-east-arkansas","13":"tag-germantown","14":"tag-grizzlies","15":"tag-i-40","16":"tag-memphis","17":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","18":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","19":"tag-mid-south","20":"tag-missouri-boothill","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-north-mississippi","23":"tag-olive-branch","24":"tag-severe-weather","25":"tag-southaven","26":"tag-west-memphis","27":"tag-west-tennessee","28":"tag-wmc-action-news-5","29":"tag-wmc5","30":"tag-wmctv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116349606820897856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698858","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=698858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}