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08:04 AM ET 06.12 | Michael Heisley is selling, and it's a fan base in Memphis that may have trouble doing any buying. Extend the lease. That's all Robert Pera would have to do to reassure nervous Memphians. Extend the lease that binds the team to FedExForum. Right now, the lease says the team can't move until 2021. Make it 2031 and the citizenry would throw a parade for the guy. ... Just like that, all the skepticism would disappear. Memphians would rush to embrace the new owner. Mike Heisley says he's found someone to buy the Grizzlies "who has expressed a total commitment to Memphis?" Then a longer deal should be no problem. And if this all sounds like I'd like some assurances before I join Heisley in his happy dance, well, that's because I covered the Affair de Laettner.
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Come Back To Seattle Bro
Bukowski
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Win And They Will Come, Bros.
I Love LA
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Lets see......Tennessee home to the Grand Ole Oprah and exactly what else in sports? Oh, this might insult Vols fans......I'm sorry Vols, you do have history but I don't know about much else sports wise.
All about the Apple
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Now we're talking about leases twenty years out?
iconwarren
Las Vegas , NV
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Hey now you guys know how Vancouver felt when Heisley stole the Grizzlies away. Move the team back to Vancouver.
sharkey58
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This new owner has to trade Gay....
Lostwill
Natick , MA
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I wonder if they realize its only 2012....9 more years before they can move....pump the brakes
DR_Universal
Charlotte , NC
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Grizzlies? In Memphis? Not even at the zoo.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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...and drop the Grizzly.
THE BISHOP!
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Uh......Vancouver, Bro (smh)
Retired Army in San…
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I'd like to see them 'buy' the name "Jazz" from the Utah franchise (nothing 'Jazzy' in Utah, anyway) and see Utah get a new nick-name.
Retired Army in San…
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I'd saying buying a team you cannot move for 9 years is already a "commitment".... Yeah those dozens and dozens of Grizzlies fans are on pins and needles waiting, just waiting for them to extend the least 10 more years.....
Sports Know it all
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A) They should drop the name "Grizzlies;" it's as bad as "Jazz" in Utah and "Lakers" in L.A.
B) A new team shouldn't be put in Canada until the league figures out a way to make the players' tax situation at least competitive with other places.
C) Seattle should get a team, having lost theirs because of a conniving owner who shouldn't kiss his own loved ones with that mouth.
Kido'the60s
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perfect, that gives San Diego more than ample time to build a new arena to replace that piece of junk on sports arena blvd. Grizzles - get ready to go surfing
1to2ot3
Murrieta , CA
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Do you have a suggested name for Utah?
THE BISHOP!
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Utah Missionaries...?
JoeRiv
Ny, NY
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Uh, New Orleans is famous for jazz music.
This is Memphis, which is famous for blues music.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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