So maybe with the addition of Allen "Don't want to be hrrr" Iverson, on a one yrrr contract, and the addition of Zach "Big City" Randolph, the Grizzlies either are trying to have a team which won't finish last, or the Grizzlies were simply trying to get up to the 45 million dollar minimum salary number. You decide.
Can we somehow raise enough money from this one season, to supplement the next fiddy yrrrs? Allen Iverson is about to sell more Grizzlies jerseys than all of the Grizzlies players combined in our history. I think his jersey will be retired after his one lone season here.
If there was any way we could keep him, we would. But you know, that somewhere around the corner, a new team wants to sell a bazillion jerseys, and have a starter in the All Star game coming off their bench like we do.
This is the year that the Grizzlies tried. At least appeared to try. They haven't got a veteran coach. They don't have a big market, in which the NBA could make much money from. So instead, we get BS calls holding us down. If you want to see what happens when a small market team wins it all, just Wiki Kentucky Colonals(sp). Hubie Brown did so well with a poor market team, that the league died because of it. My favorite fact from that ABA season, some teams were absorbed into the NBA, like the Pacers and Nuggets, while some teams died off, accepting buyouts and such. Which leads to the best part, Some of those folded teams accepted somewhat little cash considerations, while, get this, some teams actually negotiated one seventh of the future Television revenue off the surviving teams. One estimates that the one seventh deal is now valued at 300 million, whereas, the owner of other teams like the Kentucly Colonals, only got two million, and some peanuts. Knowing the Grizzlies, they too would have taken the two million up front to fold the team rather than the 300 million over thirty years.
