But personally, I don’t consider a “great basketball town” having anything to do with players playing in Memphis. I consider it a “town” with people who enjoy, love, follow, etc… the game.

Memphis is perhaps one of the greatest basketball towns in the world. How many of the elite players right now have come from Memphis or spent time there? Please

I don’t know what you call “deep pockets” and I’m sure Heisley doesn’t like losing or giving away millions of dollars… But, he is currently worth about $1.5 BILLION dollars. AND, I’m pretty sure the Grizzlies were not even in the red last year.

Also, you are wrong about Memphis not being a “great basketball town”. However, it has proven not to be much of a “pro-sports” town.

The business side is a different matter. Heisley does not have deep pockets, they are operating in a recession, and Memphis is not a great basketball town.

In the long run, Heisly will probably sell to someone who can afford to subsidize the losses, and the team will move to a larger more affluent market like Vegas or Anaheim.

The way that upper management has made such blatantly ridiculous moves in order to alienate whatever support they’ve stumbled across in their Memphis tenure is breathtaking. At least the OKC jerk-wads had the common decency to say “yes” to Seattle when they meant “no”; these guys are like the Pinball Wizard… but without the whole pinball thing…

That said, if their intention is *not* specifically to relocate the franchise… My god. The only thing to do is carry them out of their offices, set them on a raft, float them down to New Orleans and set them adrift on the Gulf Stream… Let them be removed from human memory.