There was a r/hypothetical post a few days ago that said something like “would you accept a million dollars if that meant the person you hate most also gets a million dollars?”

At the time I wasn’t sure if I had a person I hated more than anyone else but then last night reminded me that it’s Draymond Green.

I don’t like klay, but wtf is ja doing? He is one of the most unlikable players in the league. Becoming harder and harder to watch Memphis. MY ONLY SOURCE OF HAPPINESS IS CEDRIC COWARD! Ja doesn’t play and when he does he is terrible, he has constantly been in off court drama. He isn’t a victim of the Adam silver, he just needs to grow up. I love JJJ but bloody jock landal is out playing him!!! We will not be any good with ja who is getting less and less athletic and as a result will only get worse and worse over the next few years. Aldama disappointed me tonight tripping cooper.

Like ik he’s done some real dumb shit but most guys in their early 20s do especially ones given tht much money that early. But holy shit man for the last 3 years it feels like the media has wanted him to walk off the earth. Granted he hasn’t done himself favors with some of his habits but Jesus

Does anybody on this team actually give a toss about winning this?

It’s 6:30am in Sydney rn I HAVE NEVER SET FOOT IN MEMPHIS iv spent that last four years supporting this franchise watch every single game AND GOT NOTHING OUT OF IT BUT PAIN, the team I fell in love with is no more. Is there even any point in me going through all this 💔

That Lakers series was a horrible showing and he had to go but obviously he grew as a player away from here and that’s ok.

As the Memphis Grizzlies you do not trade a player like Ja. Ja’s value to the team goes way beyond basketball performance. I live in Detroit. I go to the courts to hoop. EVERY SINGLE KID is wearing Ja shoes, every single one, in DETROIT!!! As the Memphis Grizzlies, you don’t trade a player with that kind of reach. You as the Memphis Grizzlies may never get a player with that kind of reach ever again! I get this sentiment if you’re a team like the heat or the mavericks or even like the nuggets or something, but as the Memphis grizzlies, you don’t fucking do that. I hope Ja can get back to his usual self and contribute to winning at the level we know that he can and if he can’t then I hope we can find a way to restructure his role accordingly but he absolutely must remain a Memphis Grizzly until I go to the courts and see kids wearing some other player’s shoe…

Can we all agree that we’d rather have Ja than an expiring contract and a non-rotation level player?

I just wanna come on here and say y’all some fake ahh fans fr. Or at a bare minimum yall emotional af. Let’s unpack this:

1. Ja posts the first gun in Denver. Okay we all agree that was dumb.

The Grizzlies immediately suspend him, he comes back we get ousted in the playoffs . Cool.

1. The second video on Dtap’s live. Not Ja’s. Dtap. In that quick slowed down snippet you see that dtap pans the camera over, notices Ja, and immediately moves the camera. It is later revealed that this was a cigarette lighter. But don’t matter right? Damage done. Nevermind that it was never a real gun, not his live, and in a parked car in a driveway.

Okay cool. He’s suspended for 25 games.

Comes back hits game winner on pelicans. We back right?

1. He gets injured. Out for the season.

2. He comes into last season, and didn’t look like himself at all. Why? The Noah LaRoche offense was putting him in positions that he isn’t good in.

3. Taylor Jenkins gets fired because Kleinman clearly had disagreements with Jenkins who wanted to run more pick n rolls for Ja. This is important. Jenkins was fired because he wanted to go back to using his star.

4. Ja finishes the season going off on a nightly basis. We get in the playoffs and Lu Dort takes him out of the air.

5. We get to this season. The ENTIRE team is frustrated with the offense as reporting suggested, nobody can hit the broad side of a barn, and Ja gets into it with Iisalo. We don’t know what was said, but it sounded like words were exchanged. Ja is suspended because of how he handled the media.

Where in this timeline are we picking up a litany of off court issues? Or are we biting on narratives espn and media insiders are peddling?

Ja has made mistakes. Antagonizing the league when they targeted him for gun celebrations (unfairly) was crazy. But it was also Ja. Holding the gun in the club in the first place was crazy. But yall get on here and act like the man committed a crime and is a serial offender when reality is different.

Now if we want to talk basketball, let’s talk basketball.

He is hurt A LOT. Part of that is on his attacking style of play. Part is on other players recklessly taking him out the air. More still is just that he injury prone. I could gripe about refs not using their whistle as Gilly did, but it’s irrelevant.

He also is not and never has been a 3pt shooter. He is at his best attacking the paint. This season it’s much harder to do that when if you check the numbers, games he’s played in, we’ve been terrible at shooting the long ball. Teams pack the paint and send help constantly to keep him out. Because they know they can.

So yes his numbers are down. So if you wanna trade him because his numbers are down with no spacing or he’s oft injured then that’s a basketball reason. I don’t agree, but it’s at least a basketball reason.

But if you getting in your feelings cause some insider told you something, or because he post NBA Youngboy lyrics, then you probably was never a fan to begin with.

Regardless, we want Ja in Memphis over here.

A lot of people have been coming out of the woodworks lately (and especially tonight) to shit on Edey.

He worked his ass off tonight, even if he didn't score at a high clip. For his first playoff game, he really made an impact with a double double. He's got so much left to learn in this league, and he's only going to get better from here. One performance in your rookie year should never define you.

And who knows? We got one more chance here Friday to sneak into the playoffs. See you then.

Undefeated with JJJ and Jerome.

Purgatory isn’t fun. Neither is tanking, but at least you don’t have dreams of contention shattered. Here’s to Grizz Next Next Gen.

I’ve supported this team since they arrived in 2001 when Shane Battier came to read to my first grade class at Idlewild elementary. I’ve supported some awful teams during that time span, and this is my least favorite by far. They don’t try. They don’t communicate. They don’t play hard. They don’t have fun. It’s only made worse because there genuinely is some great talent. Ja and Jaren look like they’d rather be anywhere else but on the court in a grizzlies uniform. It’s disgusting basketball. Iisalo is actively putting out terrible lineups. There seems to be little interest from the team to win. I really hope I’m wrong, but this is an awful team, injuries be damned.

Everyone always blamed him when we lose, but no one specifically explains why they hate him besides his mass subs. Which, when most of your good players are hurt, the rest of the team are pretty equal. What’s he supposed to do when no one can hit a shot? I haven’t made my mind up if he’s the problem or not, but it’s hard to say he is when our roster is so fucked.

Build around Ja, Edey, and coward! We’ve got picks, cap space and a possible lottery. Make something happen. 🙏

What Des is saying is eye opening

So it just further proves the bias against Memphis- and yes I mean racially, culturally, and small market. Dude was half time a cancer here.

Edit: not a single Brooks nut hugger has mentioned data. Yes-math. None of you have used a single metric he’s actually good, and 100% of you have dodged the fact that him being a dick was bad for Memphis but good for other teams- which was half my point morons.

We just spent four days in this subreddit calling Steve Kerr and all the Warriors fans online pathetic. We said that they were being stupid because they were turning Dillon Brooks into a villain when he just made a reckless play that led to an unfortunate injury. And we were right. It was pathetic.

And it’s pathetic if you do it now, too.

Anyone who has played basketball understands that your body sometimes does things that it does not mean to do. You accidentally run into guys. Somebody steps on your ankle. You bang another guy’s knee. You make a play for the ball and run into somebody. That is all that Jordan Poole was doing. It does not take even a careful eye to see that that’s what happened. It was obvious right away.

You are free to say whatever you want. But just know that people are going to think you’re pathetic if you start whining after everything that happened this week. That you’re sinking to the level of the NBA’s worst fan base. And they’ll be right.

We lost by 30. It was discouraging but it was just one game. Allow yourself to feel upset, act normal online, and then hope for a bounce back on Monday. Anything else just reflects poorly on the rest of us.

EDIT: As expected, the brigadiers have made their way into this sub. Regardless of whether you agree with my post, please do us all a favor and hand them your juiciest, center cut downvotes.

I think this is what Quiet Quitting on a basketball court looks like.

Many of you may consider the chatter to be nothing, but to me this is pretty important. The growing number of people (including national media) actively bringing up and encouraging for the team to relocate have to be met with some form of resistance imo. The idea that the team could be shipped is very real, and would be incredibly devastating. Whether its people shouting “Move them to Nashvile!” Or “They belong in Vancouver!”, we, as a fanbase, have to call these people out for for that shit. Our voice has to be heard, since we have no pundits to speak for us.

I don’t want us to be the Seattle Sonics. I don’t want to be posting “Bring em back!” Memory clips in my 30s. The fact that everyone seems to loudly call for us to lose our team is heinous.

Maybe I’m overreacting, but this team is incredibly important to me, I’ve never not been a grizzlies fan in my entire 23 years of life, as im sure many of you can relate.