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Been to Youngstown and learned what a ghost town is.
Stephen A Smith Says NBA Players Have Told Him They Would Feel Unsafe Playing In A City Like Memphis
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Been to Youngstown and learned what a ghost town is.
Yeah, Youngstown, OH is just like my hometown in Illinois. No redeeming qualities at all.
Miraculously, athletes in these warzone cities managed to survive. And aren’t victims of crimes more than in any other city. God must be watching over them. Now that it’s established that they are gods chosen people with guardian angels since they manage to walk through war zones scot free, why would they start being afraid in 2025.
I didn’t even think about the dumbest thing he said. He said they need to clean up the city cause he knows some nba players are afraid. No regards given to the millions who can’t afford to live in gated communities far from fukkery
Those millionaires have probably been rooted in the area for generations. They can have more money than @The_Sheff , for a 25 y/o new money multimillionaire and where they may want to be has to be considered vs someone whose great-grandfather made them millionaires in 1930-something."Nice" is one of those eye of the beholder things. There are dozens of thousands of people in Memphis who are millionaires, they live somewhere, and they not all out in the suburbs. Historically Poplar and some of those Midtown boulevards and cross streets were full of mini-mansions. Whether thats nice or not, I really don't care enough to debate it, homie said aint no nice areas in Memphis and thats why he left...
That's cool for him. It's mf's who have way more money than him and will never leave Memphis, so saying aint no nice areas is a him thing. And its also inflammatory because we know black cities are stigmatized, so running around saying a black city as large as Memphis directly plays into the image of Memphis that mf's are defending themselves against...
I would never live in Memphis again but as someone who has and spent ample time there, I ain't letting nikkas get off with "there's no nice areas there" because its obvious that its not true. Its not fukking Tupelo
Fair point on CT being an NY suburb but Hartford is closer to Mass than NY and is historically the most relevant city in that state, same way Memphis was historically the most important city in Tennessee. It's cache is muted being between Boston and New York but Baltimore's is also muted being between DC and Philly, it happens. If Memphis, New Orleans, and St Louis were all 100 miles or less from each other, you'd view Memphis in the same light you view Hartford, because as it is its lost cache within its state and has never had the cultural resonance St Louis (which hosted the first World's Fair or some shyt 110 years ago) and New Orleans (one of the first and largest immigration ports in the US dating to the 18th century)....any clout or cache Memphis has, has never been on the level of Nola or StL, and that's woth it a good distance from those cities...
Reverse Hartford and Memphis' locations and they have the same story, Memphis wouldn't be a bigger deal in New England and Hartford wouldn't be a bigger deal on the Mississippi...
I don't really care about physical size either but when you pointed out Hartford's size, you gotta point out that Memphis in the same land area as Hartford (18 sq miles), has the same population as Hartford, and probably less. Memphis has that large population for generations because southern cities have always liberally annexed all available land around them to generate population. Areas that would be suburbs on the coasts or the Midwest, are "in the city" in southern cities, because they are all hundreds of sq miles, many of that mileage lightly populated...
You just said you're never living in Memphis again. You also have comments in other threads regarding cities where you've said Memphis is overrated just for the sake of it being majority black and cats trying to take pride in it when there's nothing there and too many issues. You're doing the exact same thing you're doing right now.
Baltimore's relationship with Philly and DC is nowhere near as lopsided as the Hartford-New York-Boston connection. Nor would Memphis get wiped out that bad by NOLA and STL. If that were the case you wouldn't be going to bat the way you are now. It holds a cultural significance that isn't relegated to its state.
A city of 600K in New England is absolutely a big deal. Only Boston is larger. This is disingenuous.
You can't cut city size to try to compare it. They're not the same class of city. If that's the case let me say Newark is in the same weight class as Detroit. While there are economic and cultural phenomena that are shared, we know they are not the same class. Hartford is literally 1/5 of Memphis.
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John Holliner (ex-Grizzilies VP of basketball ops and creator of PER) was on a podcast and was pretty dismissive of SAS comments. Didn't even want to talk about them really. Said Memphis had a harder time getting people to get there than getting them to stay. Also said players live in gated community but I can't recall the name of the area.
Edit: pulled this from podcast transcript
Edit: pulled this from podcast transcript
I would never live in Memphis again but as someone who has and spent ample time there, I ain't letting nikkas get off with "there's no nice areas there" because its obvious that its not true. Its not fukking Tupelo
And im not letting you off the hook by asking you to name the area a young black male in Memphis would want to live. A young black male with a family who has no other ties to the city.
Memphis is a city where the people living there have family ties to the city, and the ones who dont are only there for work experience and then they moving the fukk out. Tell me im wrong.
Former Grizzlies player sells his $1.7M Memphis home
Former Memphis Grizzlies player, Rudy Gay, has sold his $1.7 million Memphis mansion.
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Is this a bad area ?
Galloway gardens
Never been to Memphis all I really know is Graceland and Lorraine motel
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Liverpool players
Even players who lived in Cheshire were getting hit left and right
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Adam Silver wants a team in Vegas in the worst way
He's given his puppets in the media the green light to bash Memphis in any way possible
He's given his puppets in the media the green light to bash Memphis in any way possible
It's more lucrative for the owners to create an expansion team than it is to move a current one.
They'd prob just move Memphis to Nashville
Already have an arena and a bigger too city
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So to recap this thread, we got a breh @The_Sheff that actually lived in Memphis saying yeah SAS maybe exaggerated but Memphis really is like that. Then we got a bunch of other posters who maybe visited saying he wrong
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Mr.Tough Guy himself, Kenyon Martin, was on gils arena saying he wouldn't feel safe 
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So to recap this thread, we got a breh @The_Sheff that actually lived in Memphis saying yeah SAS maybe exaggerated but Memphis really is like that. Then we got a bunch of other posters who maybe visited saying he wrong
Gorilla and all the rappers from Memphis even say shyt can get dicey quick in Memphis bc the way the city is layed out.
You'll be in a nice place on one street and the next street over is a bad area
