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LeBron James has been in the headlines recently as his NBA future continues to be debated. Several teams like the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors have been mentioned as possible destinations if he leaves the Los Angeles Lakers. However, the Memphis Grizzlies could possibly be removed from the list.

James made his YouTube golf debut with Bob Does Sports on Thursday afternoon and was asked about playing for the Grizzlies. The four-time NBA champion not only rejected the idea, but he asked the Grizzlies to move to Nashville.

“You think I want to do this [expletive] at a random in memphis [expletive] Thursday?” James said. “I’m not the first person in the NBA to talk about this. We’re all like, ‘You guys have to move on.’ Just go to Nashville…their only chance would be 2003 if they won the lottery and I’d probably pull an Eli Manning and not come.”

James is not the first NBA player to mention the Grizzlies moving to Nashville. In March, Golden State forward Draymond Green called for the Grizzlies to relocate to Nashville, sparking conversation among fans about this possibility. In fact, the city has not been mentioned as a possible expansion destination.

The NBA has circled Las Vegas and Seattle as two expansion sites. Seattle lost the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City in 2008, while Las Vegas never got a professional NBA organization. The city has hosted the NBA Summer League and the NBA Cup in the past, so this isn’t a surprising development.

Nashville would likely require an existing organization to relocate to the city. If it were up to James and Green, the Grizzlies would relocate from Memphis to Nashville.

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In a widely expected move, NBA commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged that the league is taking steps toward expansion with teams potentially coming to Seattle and Las Vegas. Assuming everything happens, this will lead to an imbalance of teams in the Western Conference. But Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green believes he has the answer.

During a recent episode of ‘The Draymond Green Show,’ Green argued that not only should the Memphis Grizzlies be moved to the Eastern Conference, but they should be completely uprooted and moved to Nashville as a home city.

“Obviously the first consideration is what happens with the conference, the conferences. You have two Western Conference teams coming in, Vegas has to be in the Western Conference, Seattle has to be in the Western Conference,” Green said. “Minnesota should be an Eastern Conference team. No losses, no fouls. Memphis, which should probably be in Nashville, should be an Eastern Conference team.

“Adam, let them just do us all a favor, and move the team to Nashville. No losses, no fouls, transfer fees, it’s a swap. Give up that area, you don’t have to pay a transfer fee. … I think it’s actually a lot easier to rearrange the conferences. But you ask yourself, or do you get rid of the conferences.”

While the Grizzlies moving to Memphis is an entirely different story, only one team would need to move to the Eastern Conference, given that Seattle and Las Vegas are both in the West. After this, there will be a total of 16 teams in each conference. Memphis is slightly further east than the Minnesota Timberwolves, and a potential move to Nashville would make them even further east than some of the teams already in the Eastern Conference.

The New Orleans Pelicans could also be a candidate to move to the Eastern Conference following NBA expansion.