Next season the team will almost certainly play in Memphis, where Federal Express will reportedly pay $125 million to call the club the Express, to festoon the players in FedEx colors (orange and blue) and to retain naming rights to a $250 million arena financed largely by taxpayers, who would have no say in the matter. Now that s basketball.
— Steve Rushin in his Sports Illustrated column this week which argues that the Vancouver Grizzlies’ fans deserved better than they got from the NBA.