Trojan 24
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Btw no one associated with the Grizz or the NBA is gonna actually co-sign this publicly, they aren't going to insult they fanbase
Stephen A Smith Says NBA Players Have Told Him They Would Feel Unsafe Playing In A City Like Memphis
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Stern was still in the cut
Worst thing in American sports is when greedy owners either
a. Play poor and get the government to build fancy new arenas on the taxpayer dime
b. Uproot a franchise based off nothing else but profitability (Every oakland franchise, etc)
Franchises are like trees...once you plant it and it's spread its roots for 20 years...you cant just rip it out the ground and move like nothing happened.
the nba is long overdue for 2+ expansion teams... no need to move the grizzlies. If im being honest Grizzlies have made several deep plaoyff runs over the years...if the league were moving a franchise based off poor performance...it prob be us
a. Play poor and get the government to build fancy new arenas on the taxpayer dime
b. Uproot a franchise based off nothing else but profitability (Every oakland franchise, etc)
Franchises are like trees...once you plant it and it's spread its roots for 20 years...you cant just rip it out the ground and move like nothing happened.
the nba is long overdue for 2+ expansion teams... no need to move the grizzlies. If im being honest Grizzlies have made several deep plaoyff runs over the years...if the league were moving a franchise based off poor performance...it prob be us
murksiderock
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This doesn’t apply to me, because I know Memphis and once knew a huge chunk of the city inside and out...
You got nikkas in here talking bout Memphis has no nice areas who never even been to Memphis. Them the nighas you need to be coming at lmao...
Where exactly are you from? I've spent time, real time, everywhere from Millbranch to Westwood to the South Third corridor, specifically The Belts, Kansas, Florida, etc.
Been up thru Hollywood and Frayser Blvd. The avenue currently known as "Range Line Rd" used to be called Hollywood Blvd, spent plenty of time over on Clifton Ave...
Someone in here mentioned how Memphis doesn't have an amusement park as entertainment----->but it used to, it used to have Liberty Land. I'm old enough and familiar enough with Memphis to recall these things, as well as Peabody Place downtown which was a huge deal many years ago when it opened...
I've eaten everywhere from Rendezvous to Jack Pirtle's, I haven't been to Memphis in 8 years but I know the city fam, this aint some random nigha talking who never been there...
The main point of contention in this thread, is the assertion that Memphis doesn't have nice areas. I'm someone who has spent plenty of time there, I can't let nikkas get off with that!
Fair enough on saying I sound hypocritical, but I'll point out that the context in me calling Memphis overrated was, I believe, because people were shytting on California cities allegedly not having enough black people...
I wouldn't live in Memphis again, the safety would only be an issue for rearing my kids there, but that isn't a real consideration because my kids won't grow up there. I wouldn't live in Memphis again because it lacks the attributes I look for in a home, and I'm also not a huge fan of Southern cities. I'd have to go down the list a ways before I get to "safety"...
I think my overrated comment was also about statements inflating its cultural significance. Memphis' cultural weight meant more pre-1980. Its cultural weight today in the last 45 years, is minimal, its more about what it "was", than what it "is"...
I'm not cutting city size either, DMAs, GDPs, and measures of economic performance are based on metropolitan areas, not city. Nobody thinks Jacksonville is a bigger city than Miami, literally nobody says this, but your logic is that it would be considered such. The metro populations of Memphis and Hartford make them peers, as does the correlating measures that highlight this...
Lastly, you missed my point on the Hartford/Memphis comp---->Memphis wouldn't be 600,000 in New England because it wouldn't be given 300 mi² of land to achieve it the way it could in Tennessee. Hartford in Tennessee would be given hundreds of miles of room to expand before the city borders pop up...
I fux wit CBusApparently, you have never been to Columbus, Ohio
Former Grizzlies player sells his $1.7M Memphis home
Former Memphis Grizzlies player, Rudy Gay, has sold his $1.7 million Memphis mansion.www.actionnews5.com
Is this a bad area ?
Galloway gardens
Never been to Memphis all I really know is Graceland and Lorraine motel
There was a major story where a jogger was kidnapped and murdered when going for a morning run around her house.
That home you posted is a block away from there.
The mall on that same street (only 1 mile away) is known for people getting robbed in the parking deck. Matter of fact it got so bad the anchor stores closed, they sold the mall, and they turning it into apartments.
Right up the street from there kids were beating people with pumpkins at Kroger.
Yeah, and that all been closed. They really tried with Peabody Place but nikkas was acting a fool so nobody wanted to go there anymore.
“Used to have” doesn’t help people who would be moving there now!
They tried with mud island and the riverwalk but nikkas act a fool down there. Got the cops forcing people to leave the area as soon as the sun start going down.
Harbortown should be nice, but you can’t go a block over without your head on a swivel.
I remember living there and looking for a sports bar to go watch big games. And folks were like “yeah we really don’t have that, just Buffalo Wild Wings or Fridays”. They closed Fox and Hound which was decent because nikkas was fighting in there because they were gambling on the games.
EzekelRAGE
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murksiderock
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Given I've already listed the kind of black male personalities that Memphis would appeal to, those personalities would obviously find somewhere to live....the mirr money they have, the better the area they would live.
Personally I never knew anyone who just up and moved to Memphis with no ties, so your experience differs from mine there. Everybody I knew was related to someone or used to live there, its not the kind of city that just atttacts masses of upwardly mobile mf's...
I know mf's who moved away and came back, I guess my stepmom would count in that group. She left at 17 and moved to St Louis, which by the way, she was 17 in 1985. Left St Louis for New London, Connecticut in the 90s. By the time she met my stepfather and my brother and I were working our way east, by the time she returned to Memphis in 2002, that was her first time there since '85...
She left in '03 and has never been back...
Yall changing the conversation though, the point was never, are there alot of riugh areas in Memphis...
This probably speaks to my comfortability there, but I never felt anymore than just, be alert to my surroundings, tge way I always was everywhere I've been. And if people know anything about the areas I just named in my previous posts, those are not calm areas, but its no different than the worst areas anywhere. Stay alert and mind your f'ing business...
I can tell mf's alot about the Kansas, Belz, Florida corridors, but the topic was never, "are there areas it gets dicey in Memphis"
most of Memphis not as bad as those areas of Third; Whitehaven has a bad reputation and isnt bad everywhere...
Lived in North Mississippi for the majority of my life until a couple of years ago when I moved elsewhere. Went to U of M and still have family who live in that area as Mississippi/Arkansas/Tennessee lines all blur together including crime crossing state lines. A lot of people would live in one state, while in another. That's how close they are.
A lot of the stuff that used to be in Memphis is now starting to shift over to Mississippi.
If you want an amusement park then you'll have to go to Dollywood for that. Even now, Oak Court which is become crime ridden is closing down once all the leases expire.
If you want to go to a mall, you can go to the Tanger Outlet in Southaven, but even then, it's just only a few minutes away from Memphis depending on where you're at.
Peruvian Connect
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nikka said i ain't been there in 8 years, but know the city. What a try hard
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
Given I've already listed the kind of black male personalities that Memphis would appeal to, those personalities would obviously find somewhere to live....the mirr money they have, the better the area they would live.
Personally I never knew anyone who just up and moved to Memphis with no ties, so your experience differs from mine there. Everybody I knew was related to someone or used to live there, its not the kind of city that just atttacts masses of upwardly mobile mf's...
I know mf's who moved away and came back, I guess my stepmom would count in that group. She left at 17 and moved to St Louis, which by the way, she was 17 in 1985. Left St Louis for New London, Connecticut in the 90s. By the time she met my stepfather and my brother and I were working our way east, by the time she returned to Memphis in 2002, that was her first time there since '85...
She left in '03 and has never been back...
Yall changing the conversation though, the point was never, are there alot of riugh areas in Memphis...
This probably speaks to my comfortability there, but I never felt anymore than just, be alert to my surroundings, tge way I always was everywhere I've been. And if people know anything about the areas I just named in my previous posts, those are not calm areas, but its no different than the worst areas anywhere. Stay alert and mind your f'ing business...
I can tell mf's alot about the Kansas, Belz, Florida corridors, but the topic was never, "are there areas it gets dicey in Memphis"
Is it changing the convo? Sas is parroting talking points from "sources" aka Google Search AI overview results which specifically deal with people NOT FEELING SAFE
Pull up my Oakland thread. You sound crazy
No one wants to be under the constant threat of crime
murksiderock
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Well that's my central point, is that young athletes with money and freedom dont wanna play in Memphis, not because of crime, which was the original point of this thread made by Stephen A, but they dont wanna play in Memphis because of the lack of shyt to do...
Because you can play the crime game with a bunch of cities that host major league franchises...
Ha, my aunt (stepmom's sister) used to work at the management of Oak Court Mall back in the early 00s. We used to go there a bunch and get all kinds of free food
Add her to the list of people I know who left and never came back, she left around 2010 for Harrisburg PA, then around 2015 they moved to St Louis and been there since (Belleville IL on the other side of the Mississippi from StL but you can catch the train in/out of StL and her and my uncle work in StL city, and their son is a drummer in a jazz band in StL)...
The stuff that is "starting" to shift to Mississippi per your description, started that shift many years ago. You can't be from Desoto because people from Desoto can tell you that "shift" isnt new. I got plenty of stories about Southaven, Horn Lake, Olive Branch, Hernando, Walls...
You just talking cause the nikka who tapped your posts been cosplaying like he from Memphis for years on here only to find out.....he's not.
nikka just talked about shyt "shifting" to Mississippi, I can tell you transition was already underway back in '02, amd maybe sooner. I remember going back to Southaven in 2010 and in just the 7 years since id left there was a huge demographic shift...
You just talking, nikka lmao...
I'm a try hard but if you can't refute anything I said about Memphis, just sit this one out champ
