Obviously, things arent going well this year.

Ja is out.

Adams and Clarke are hurt, leaving us threadbare on the inside.

We couldnt pay Tyus or Dillon, and Marcus isnt gelling yet.

Shams and Tim McMahon who are complete outsiders wrote some hit pieces against us so the national narrative about our franchise is actually truly false.

We decided not to find a young point guard who is actually a point guard to replace Ja for 25 games, and instead expected Bane, Rose, and Smart to replace Ja, none of whom are truly natural pure point guards.

That being said. We are getting hosed in most of these games. I have watched the Grizz for a long time and I cant remember a worse stretch of games from an officiating standpoint. When you play Golden State on national TV on Christmas, I expect us to get jobbed out, but in years past, that would even itself out over the course of the year. We would get John Goble to screw us in the GSW game, but then we would get Gucci Mane ref to give us a nicer whistle the next night.

This year feels different. It feels more like we are persona non grata within the league. Our team is getting very limited support from the refs on offense, and players like Smart are getting a very tight whistle on the other end. There isnt a situation where some games and for us and others are against us. Every game feels against us.

Could this be intended to punish Memphis for Ja?

And if not, could there be a larger objective for the NBA? To slowly erode the positivity of the Grizzlies in Memphis with the long term objective of shifting the team to Nashville, a market with more money?

The current state of affairs is heavily slanted against us. In response, we might make dramatic moves like changing coaching or changing the roster in ways that set us actually even further back. Is this what the league wants?