Expansion brought NBA basketball to new markets throughout North America. But establishing a franchise and sustaining one proved to be two entirely different challenges.

In Part Two of The 32nd Team, Gavriel Wilkins and Torrence Stagger examine the period where relocation began to reshape the league's landscape, raising multiple questions surrounding when moving a franchise becomes necessary. While also discussing how much responsibility falls upon ownership, the market and the NBA itself in times when professional basketball fails to survive in a city.

The conversation begins north of the border with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as the duo looks back on the combination of circumstances that contributed to the franchise departing Canada for Memphis just six years after its inception. From ownership instability and attendance struggles to  ...