CumAssault | SAS

834 | 8 hours ago

Blazers getting gutted for literally zero reason. Had a decent season, lots of young guys with potential. But a cheap owner ruins it

Edit; can Ballmer offer cash for the Blazers’ first round picks?

Life-Sun8620

263 | 8 hours ago

They’re not even considering resigning the coach either. Dude stepped in after Billups, and had zero expectations of success amongst the chaos and a lackluster roster, and unexpectedly got them into the playoffs.

RulersBack | Cavaliers

133 | 8 hours ago

You’d think the possibility of keeping him on a smaller salary than an established coach would make him appealing but this guy appears to be the type that needs to be cheap and the smartest in the room

duvie773 | Hornets

91 | 7 hours ago

I don’t know what the offer was to Splitter, but if there’s any truth to the rumor that the owner wants to pay the next coach 1 million or less, cheap doesn’t even begin to describe it

Doug Christie was the lowest paid full time head coach this year at 2 million, and the results showed, finishing tied for worst record in the west. Then the owner wants to take a guy who backdoored the team into the playoffs and ask him to work for half that? Foolish and beyond cheap

Delightful_Dantonio

42 | 6 hours ago

There are college assistant coaches making a million a year. You are not gonna attract any talent paying basement tier wages. And then any coach that is good will immediately bolt for a different job. Brain dead leadership.

You can be cheap and win in the NHL. That won’t fly in the NBA.

10001110101balls

18 | 6 hours ago

It helps him get away with being cheap in the NHL that his coach is a franchise legend willing to take a discount.

Answer70 | Rockets

25 | 7 hours ago

Exactly. Splitter did great and should get an opportunity at a fair value.

mdiaz28 | Kings

27 | 7 hours ago

Kinda reminds me of the older movie Major League. He probably got pissed they made playoffs and it’s ruining his plan to tank the team and move them

Coattail-Rider

12 | 6 hours ago

I would not be surprised if he was trying to move the team and is ruining the team to get that to happen. I have no idea if this is even possible anytime soon. Probably just a cheap asshole.

curreyfienberg | Bucks

21 | 6 hours ago

I mean with Seattle and Vegas already set to get teams, I’m not sure where you could even go that would be preferable to Portland. It’s a legitimately historic franchise in a pretty good basketball city.

Granted, that hasn’t stopped asshole owners before, but literally, where? A third team in LA? A fourth team in Texas?

Coattail-Rider

8 | 6 hours ago

Yeah, he’s probably just cheap. Sucks for their fans as they’re pretty proud and loyal.

ImjustANewSneaker | LAL

6 | 6 hours ago

Austin is probably getting one eventually.

curreyfienberg | Bucks

10 | 6 hours ago

That’s one of the ones that pops up a lot, but unless they’re planning to go to like, 40 teams, I don’t see how it makes sense.

The other Texas teams would certainly be opposed, too.

levir03 | Magic

10 | 5 hours ago

San Antonio is an hour away and already a small enough market. No way the league wants to fuck that up.

ImjustANewSneaker | LAL

1 | 27 minutes ago

Small enough market? Austin and San Antonio separately have bigger markets than Sacramento, Portland, Indianapolis, Cleveland, OKC, Memphis, Utah, Mil… Austin also is the fastest growing metro and SA has pretty high growth too.

levir03 | Magic

1 | 20 minutes ago

You just named all the small market teams in the NBA. San Antonio + Austin makes up a solid NBA market, there is no need to divide them into two.

Duck8Quack

5 | 5 hours ago

Yea, that would be right in the Spurs backyard. And I feel like University of Texas wouldn’t be welcoming of potential competition.

I’d bet other owners don’t want franchises to be allowed to move into what they consider their territory.

The options that I can think of would be St Louis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Richmond, Fresno, Birmingham, Providence, Hartford. Not a real appealing list.

Maybe San Diego, would the LA franchises try to block it. The previously mentioned Austin. Maybe a third Florida franchise, would the Heat and Magic try to block. Maybe Nashville, would the Grizzlies object. Baltimore, but it’s very in the Wizards backyard. A second Chicago franchise. A second team in the Bay Area.

The only options that have a larger metro pop than Portland (26) from that list are San Diego (18), Baltimore (22), St Louis (23), and Austin (25). Other metros with >2 million Pittsburgh (28), Cincinnati (30), Kansas City (31), Nashville (34). US metro areas.

So just looking that list San Diego and St Louis seem like the options that would move the needle.

Reus20 | Vancouver Grizzlies

5 | 5 hours ago

Maybe STL or KC? The ownership team does have Richard Chaifetz who is a prominent STL figure and helped hire Josh Schertz at SLU. I believe some from worldwide technology are also in the group and they are headquartered in STL as well

All that said, I’d be shocked if the Blazers moved. I think it’s more an owner being a cheapskate than tanking to leave

aviatorbassist

1 | 5 hours ago

He owns the Canes which is in Raleigh….

MayBeAGayBee | Cavaliers

10 | 7 hours ago

I think in addition to the penny pinching, part of it is also that this guy would rather the team be bad with a coach he hired, as opposed to being good with a coach who has been there longer than him.

Dusty_Negatives | Trail Blazers

1 | 8 hours ago

Eh he was fine but not a clear cut hire for head coach. We haven’t had a real coaching search in over a decade. Billups was olsheys old friend and that was a sham search. They interviewed splitter already I believe.

makinbankbitches | Trail Blazers

6 | 7 hours ago

Dame was also friends with Billups which played a big part in that.

I agree we should do a proper search but also keep Splitter in our back pocket in case he is the best option.

1850ChoochGator | Trail Blazers

2 | 6 hours ago

Idt they were friends. Maybe just league acquaintances.

Olshey asked Dame who he liked and he said Chauncey and Kidd, so Olshey hired his friend from his time with the Clippers

BlazetheNugs

-4 | 6 hours ago

We expected going to the playoffs

Life-Sun8620

5 | 6 hours ago

Sure man. So did the Wizards. Portland was around the mid 20s in preseason power rankings this season.

BlazetheNugs

2 | 5 hours ago

So, as a fan after seeing our late season push and the development we weren’t surprised at all. But sure, go ahead and use power rankings as gods gospel

NZafe | Raptors

98 | 8 hours ago

Feels like if anything they overperformed this season. Definitely didn’t expect them to become the 7th seed when I looked at their roster preseason.

SenHeffy | Jazz

32 | 8 hours ago

All it takes to get to the play in range is to not actively tank.

GiraffesRBro94 | Kings

13 | 7 hours ago

Kings beg to differ

SenHeffy | Jazz

8 | 7 hours ago

Not to actively tank or have legendary levels of incompetence**

Pyritedust | Bucks

1 | 6 hours ago

To be fair, I think the Kings might be cursed along with incompetence. Some warlock didn’t like the beam and cursed them for it, the whole beam season was fun :(

NZafe | Raptors

9 | 8 hours ago

Which is why I think the new 3-2-1 tanking rule will be fine for the league because to actually be so far in dead last, you have to intentionally be fielding a g league level lineup.

If the bottom teams actually wanted to win games, we’d quickly realize how much closer in talent they all are with each other.

monoDK13 | Bulls

1 | 7 hours ago

Please explain to me how all 30 teams can finish in the Top 27?!

If this works and all teams stop tanking, sign the best possible players, and try to win every game, then you’re just punishing the 3 worst teams for not being as talented and removing an avenue for them to get better.

NZafe | Raptors

3 | 7 hours ago

They can’t.

What I’m suggesting is that no team needs to finish 10 games back from 27th unless they are trying to lose. The final standings between say the bottom 5 teams could be a few games apart and not miles apart.

Turt1estar | Trail Blazers

5 | 7 hours ago

Good, teams battling it out to not be bottom three will make the entire back half of the season more interesting.

Delanorix | Knicks

3 | 7 hours ago

The Trailblazers had like the 3rd ranked defense after the ASB.

That core is a menace on defense.

SenHeffy | Jazz

-1 | 7 hours ago

They had literally the easiest strength of schedule in the league by a large margin post all star break at .428

thurstkiller | Jazz

1 | 8 hours ago

100%. They had 11 wins post all star break vs tanking teams.

CazOnReddit | Raptors

3 | 8 hours ago

Technically they finished 8th, they just wound up beating the Suns for the 7 seed in the play-in

I think they overperformed relative to all the injuries up and down the roster but I don’t look at anyone on their roster as having some high ceiling that’ll change their future as a perennial lower seeded playoff/play-in team - and frankly we don’t talk enough about how the Blazers missed on their lottery picks in not finding a franchise star in Sharpe or Scoot

Imthegoat175 | Suns

12 | 8 hours ago

I don’t think you’re allowed to trade first round picks for cash anymore or else he definitely would sell them off

Spiritual_Fee660

18 | 8 hours ago

I don’t think you’re allowed to trade first round picks for cash anymore

“we are all trying to find the guy that did this”

couducane | Trail Blazers

4 | 7 hours ago

Trade a first round pick for a bunch of second round picks, then sell those.

WebstersPack

5 | 7 hours ago

This is on the business side. Has nothing to do with the players or basketball operations.

TheLionYeti | Nuggets

2 | 7 hours ago

God I wonder if Seattle would want the team back if it meant the blazers would be gone.

SheLuvsMyQuickScopez | Trail Blazers

2 | 7 hours ago

They don’t have any draft picks this year

VirtualMask | Cavaliers

1 | 7 hours ago

Zero reason? Cheap owner wants to make more money (I didn’t say it’d be a good reason).

youblewwit

1 | 6 hours ago

Edit; can Ballmer offer cash for the Blazers’ first round picks?

Ballmer should absolutely do this. New owner might be dumber than he is cheap

webelieve925

1 | 5 hours ago

Moving the team to las vegas

ISOLDASNAKE | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

Blazers about to turn into a farm team..

BBallHunter | Thunder

635 | 8 hours ago

El Cheapo is already legendary.

Intelligence_Gap | Supersonics

100 | 8 hours ago

Absolutely no fucks given. He either goes down near Sterling or Balmer and his net worth isn’t close to Balmer

rawspeghetti | Celtics

10 | 2 hours ago

Recent revelations and past allegations aside, Balmer is exactly the owner you want to have. This is what happens when venture capitalists are buying into the league. Next it’ll be foreign princes

Ok_Daikon_7726 | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

Yeah as a fan, owners who are willing to cheat to spend more money is exactly what you’d want, especially since it seems like the punishment either won’t happen or will be pretty minimal

DerrickWhiteMVP | Spurs

307 | 8 hours ago

I can’t imagine being such a piece of shit that you make your fortune on predatory lending just to leverage that into buying a sports franchise to run it into the ground. This fucking sucks for the Blazers.

acciopizza_ | Spurs

188 | 8 hours ago

It’s a bad look for the league tbh

Fearless77_

118 | 6 hours ago

Adelsons buying the team and immediately selling the fan favorite Luka should already set off alarm bells. Money ball and not in the pleasant way.

koolaidman1030 | UTA

53 | 5 hours ago

Straight out the PE playbook. Buy something of value, cut it to shreds and keep/increase your cut, leave. Sad thing for the league to fall into this bullshit

Ancient_Lifeguard_16

36 | 4 hours ago

Kinda feels like everything in the US is doing this. Hell we’re charging parents to watch their kids T-ball games now

No_Problem20

22 | 4 hours ago

Yep.

We went from a world where every company wanted to have the best reputation and great products, which led to high sales.

Now everyone has shit reputation, shit products, and they just shrinkflate everything to death.

Xc0liber | Lakers

19 | 4 hours ago

Been a while since that is the case. Everything started to go to shit when shareholders brought Ford to court.

For those that didn’t know. The case is basically the shareholders being pissed Ford wanted to give the workers a big bonus from the increased revenue. The court ruled in favour of the shareholders stating a company main priority is to the shareholders.

It set the precedent to what is happening today. That’s why the corporate world in the states is fucked beyond repair.

sloBrodanChillosevic | Supersonics

9 | 4 hours ago

Those shareholders being the Dodge brothers who founded their own shitty car company

Own_Ad102

1 | 3 hours ago

Where are we doing that?

AwildYaners | Japan

1 | an hour ago

Yep, wait for expansion, make a quick buck, and then sell off to the highest bidders then.

BallIsLife2016 | Cavaliers

2 | 3 hours ago

Unfortunately, the absolutely bonkers value growth of NBA franchises has attracted people for the wrong reasons. We now have people buying not because they want to own a basketball team but because it’s a good investment (and it undeniably is). Unfortunately, getting a good return on investment and getting a good basketball team are two antithetical goals.

NABAKLAB | IND

17 | 6 hours ago

sorry Silver cannot hear you as the refereeing and ads of gambling/prediction are also not problematic

Zammy512 | Lakers

6 | 5 hours ago

Lets be real, nobody but Blazers’ fans are going to care. The media isn’t going to talk about this…

Muted-Woodpecker-469

14 | 7 hours ago

And then fire 70 plus people who may become homeless. The cycle is vicious and one that needs to be talked about and ousted/thrown into the public comment.

RapFuzzy

6 | 5 hours ago

America is proper fucked

HotdawgSizzle | Hawks

7 | 4 hours ago

Sports teams are supposed to be a billionaire vanity project that you later sell for a big gain.

Imagine having this much money and being this cheap. The rich really have gotten too comfortable…

DarkStar668

201 | 8 hours ago

I’ll never understand owners that think they’re the CEO of like Microsoft or Apple and have been tasked with increasing the bottom line for shareholders.

I would think that they would be in the business of winning. I must be stupid

Gyshall669 | Bulls

30 | 7 hours ago

I mean they’re definitely increasing profit for the shareholders. It’s just that they’re the shareholders.

TalkQuirkyWithMe | Nuggets

25 | 8 hours ago

I mean the NBA is a business at the end of the day. Businesses are interested in being profitable. That should not come by layoffs, but that’s what happens. Really curious as to who got laid off and why, not that we’d get that info.

FeelsGoodMan2

82 | 8 hours ago

Profitable as long as me, mr owner, gets my 50 million or whatever. Who cares if I upend the lives of 70 people as long as I get my marginal “I’m way too fucking rich to ever spend all this” turned into “I’m way too fucking rich to ever spend all this just a little more”. This “it’s a business” shit is so cringe. Maybe if the CEOs sliced their salaries by millions and millions to get it profitable, then sure run it that way. But until you do, I’m calling it out.

TalkQuirkyWithMe | Nuggets

15 | 8 hours ago

Sounds like a lot of for profit companies. Freaking banks doing mass layoffs then mass hirings are par for the course. They want to make themselves look more profitable before their quarter ends. Same with tech. Probably same with sports.

These are people in mid or low levels, people who you’re not going to get an uproaring when they get let go.

Financial_Pay_6687

3 | 7 hours ago

Maybe it’s just not this, but Dundon does seem to be drawing a lot of attention right. Not sure if any of this is going under the radar or not catching scorn.

RmembrTheAyyLMAO

1 | 4 hours ago

mass layoffs then mass hirings

A big reason for that behavior is to reduce salaries.

levir03 | Magic

3 | 5 hours ago

70 people AND THEIR FAMILIES.

BigEggBeaters | Washington Bullets

15 | 7 hours ago

Hate how America has created this fake ass economy where it’s finally prudent to fire a ton of people while degrading your own product

clownysf | Cavaliers

6 | 6 hours ago

Blame Jack Welch, the dick

knarf86 | Pistons

1 | 5 hours ago

No bro, you don’t understand! He made GE the most valuable company in the world bro (and also a ticking time bomb that would drop out of the Dow shortly after he retired)

RadWalk | Nuggets

7 | 8 hours ago

It’s an asset that will appreciate faster than any other possible investment lately. The operating expenses and revenue are negligible to the real investors.

Muted-Woodpecker-469

1 | 7 hours ago

It feels like they could over spend and go over budget and still walk away with billions when they sell in 20-25 years. I guess they needed that $50-300 million they ‘overspent’ on 2 decades prior

Muted-Woodpecker-469

3 | 7 hours ago

It’s not totally about profits. Teams can run in the red but still make enough to raise their teams valuation.

TalkQuirkyWithMe | Nuggets

1 | 6 hours ago

A lot of the profits are also tied to the NBA’s performance in general - there’s a lot of revenue sharing there as far as I know, which reduces the impact of things like low ticket sales.

I mean owners should want a sustainable franchise and I’m betting financial responsibility is still on their list of things they look at. I do agree that the end product (competitive games and a good fan experience) should still be of importance.

couducane | Trail Blazers

3 | 7 hours ago

Yeah, but it’s crazy because if he were to spend and be a good owner, we would absolutely love him. I would think that having millions of people liking you and cheering you on would be a more powerful form of motivation than some millions. Or winning, also an amazing feeling.

Muted-Woodpecker-469

5 | 7 hours ago

They could increase the budget $25 million every year for 20 years and never get into their real money stash. These billionaires are literally sickos. They’re after one thing. It’s sad this behavior isn’t boycotted. The state and city should threaten the team. Cut funding or help here or there

Rapscallious1

-1 | 7 hours ago

You sound like you manage your finances like an NBA player lol.

suuushi-roll | 76ers

99 | 8 hours ago

im so sorry blazers fan. Your Owner sucks

CazOnReddit | Raptors

55 | 8 hours ago

He’s going to use the decreased ticket sales to move the team, I’m calling it now

acciopizza_ | Spurs

10 | 8 hours ago

Why do people keep saying that? Is it just assumption made because it’s a small market?

CazOnReddit | Raptors

41 | 8 hours ago

It’s because it’s intentional sabotage and there’s precedent for a shitty owner doing it to trigger relocation, namely the Buffalo Braves to San Diego (Later LA as the Clippers)

ElBeno77 | Timberwolves

15 | 7 hours ago

I think this is also loosely the plot of Major League

The_Throwback_King | Trail Blazers

5 | 7 hours ago

See also the patently blatant sandbagging of the A’s by John Fisher so the league could chase the Vegas money dragon

TTPMGP | 76ers

24 | 7 hours ago

It’s the relocation playbook 101. Threaten to leave the city if financial demands are not met (he’s already done this) while simultaneously turn off fans (he’s really good at this). Before you know it he says he has to move them because it’s his only choice because the city/state won’t meet his crazy demands and some other city will.

remonnoki | NBA

4 | 7 hours ago

Because he has threatened it already

acciopizza_ | Spurs

2 | 7 hours ago

Didn’t know that, that’s awful. That team means a lot to that city.

NevermoreSEA | POR

5 | 7 hours ago

It’s okay, I’m happy as long as our owner makes money.

Funky_Monkees_

78 | 8 hours ago

Being a billionaire, then a cheap sports team owner is inexcusable. If you want in the game, pay for it, you can without blinking

CazOnReddit | Raptors

33 | 8 hours ago

Someone who is good at budgeting, help me my team is dying

100 dollars - Scouting

5 dollars - Hotel late fees

12 - Coaching

13 billion - a loan to my personal business with 5 percent interest

OnionOnBelt | Cavaliers

3 | 4 hours ago

Laugh at his use of the comic sans font if you must, but here in Cleveland we say thank God for Dan Gilbert.

Massive-Toe3714 | France

69 | 8 hours ago

Is it common in for journalists to share the name of people getting fired.

NZafe | Raptors

69 | 8 hours ago

Depends on the circumstances. We’ll see reports for major staff firings, such as coaches, assistant coaches, GMs, AGMs and the likes.

BehavioralSink | Trail Blazers

53 | 8 hours ago

I’m worried that some of the names will be well known amongst the fans. Already confirmed our Blazer beat reporter of the last 18+ years, Casey Holdahl, was let go.

Affectionate-Art9780 | Nets

13 | 8 hours ago

A beat reporter works for the team? I thought they worked for the local paper.

BehavioralSink | Trail Blazers

27 | 8 hours ago

He does refer to himself as a beat reporter, but is was employed by the team.

Affectionate-Art9780 | Nets

19 | 8 hours ago

So basically team PR/marketing? Or did he sometimes write critical pieces?

AllTheHolloway | Bulls

14 | 8 hours ago

If it’s similar to the writer the Chicago Bulls have, these guys are allowed to express their opinions independent of the team and basically write the same type of articles you’d see in the paper. Though I feel like they’re not really free to be that spicy when on team payroll. But I think the point is so when someone is looking for news and opinions about their team, they get drawn towards the official team site where they can advertise to you or whatever.

BehavioralSink | Trail Blazers

6 | 7 hours ago

Often involved in pregame reporting, especially on the radio broadcasts. Ran two podcasts on the team, The Brief Case and Blazers Balcony. Honestly not sure if he was doing articles these days as well or not.

Simple_Sound_3840

9 | 8 hours ago

Man I stopped following the ripcity sub since it was getting so depressing and hadn’t heard this, ugh. Please tell me Bruce Ely hasn’t gotten the axe

noheroespdx | Trail Blazers

3 | 8 hours ago

Been following him for so long. Huge loss for the Blazers and the fans. Another cheap move for the worst

Altruistic_Brief4444 | Grizzlies

12 | 8 hours ago

Business side implies it’s people in ticket sales, marketing, arena operations and community engagement. Not anyone who fans would know of on a basketball operations level

decmcc | Raptors

2 | 8 hours ago

ugh, He’s gonna replace iticketing with some AI outreach BS I bet. Which is such a stupid move, I used to do ticket sales for a small org and it is sooooo relationship based. You can’t AI outbound those processes. Also ticketing (be it a movie theatre or an arena) requires some mental flexibility and non-linear problem solving.

even though it was 7 years ago those people I connected with are still on my LinkedIn and I deal with some of them from time to time

WebstersPack

-1 | 7 hours ago

You need non-linear problem solving to sell someone a movie ticket? Here I was just going on line, selecting a movie, theater, time and seat. I’ve been missing out on all the 4d chess!

decmcc | Raptors

5 | 7 hours ago

when you have a group of 20 people and don’t have 20 seats together you have to get creative, also providing solutions for people to pay for their tickets separately.

putting together corporate packages that include hospitality for some and not all in an order.

Ticket sales isn’t the person taking money at the box office. It requires a holistic understanding of onsite operations too.

DaExtinctOne | Jeremy Lin

4 | 6 hours ago

Lol the dude you replied to sounded too smug. This is really cool insight that people take for granted because pros actually do their jobs to make the experience seamless for customers.

lilbodie | Timberwolves

3 | 8 hours ago

Not if it’s part of the accounting team. It wouldn’t surprise me if they reported names for people laid off in scouting, analytics, basketball ops, etc.

Many of those names might be newsworthy in the industry, even if not well known to most fans.

yeahright17 | Thunder

61 | 8 hours ago

Tom Dundon really just doing everything he can to make fans like him. I feel so bad for Blazers fans.

WestcottTactics2285

53 | 8 hours ago

They really need a Standards and Practices clause for these teams. You can’t just buy a team and immediately destroy everything about it. This guy sucks.

Seven19td | Washington Bullets

26 | 8 hours ago

They need to do something otherwise this is only going to get worse. I’ve never known of a good billionaire but this current crop of billionaires is more evil than ever

CazOnReddit | Raptors

4 | 8 hours ago

If the NBA had something like that, the Clippers would still be in Buffalo

folgers-finest | Grizzlies

3 | 7 hours ago

I fully agree, but I really see owners like Dundon as a natural result of team valuations getting this high. There’s only a tiny tiny sliver of people who can afford a sports team anymore (not like the list was super long anyways, but…)

Youre_On_Balon | Cavaliers

2 | 7 hours ago

I was actually wondering if all the other NBA owners were salivating knowing a confirmed cheapo was coming in to run a competitor like a clown for decades

acciopizza_ | Spurs

4 | 8 hours ago

I feel like the league fucked up letting him buy the team

CarmeloDramatic

46 | 8 hours ago

Man blazers fans should be in one of the most fun times for fandom when you got that young team that overperformed and got playoff minutes. What a kick to the nuts. Went from being excited to see the team grow to just organizational incompetence

1azaz1 | Knicks

13 | 8 hours ago

Especially with dame coming back next season, killing all the excitement

Talkative-Tetra-3710

4 | 5 hours ago

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem like incompetence this seems like intentional spreadsheet minmaxing from a world class shitty business guy

geewillie | Pistons

-7 | 8 hours ago

Or maybe they’re a team that realizes they got lucky as other teams actively tanked? They were the worst of the teams actively trying

CarmeloDramatic

2 | 6 hours ago

Well they ended the warriors season and won more games than them. So idk what metric you are using to decide that. 2k ratings?,

geewillie | Pistons

-3 | 6 hours ago

The warriors were missing their #2 and Steph played 43 games. Congrats on beating Steph and the trash in a play in. Can amend it to they were only better than the corpse of the warriors and Pelicans

CarmeloDramatic

3 | 6 hours ago

lol I’m not a blazers fan. But thank you. Congrats on being the team that ruined James harden playoff jokes for everybody 😘

geewillie | Pistons

-1 | 6 hours ago

Can’t slander Donovan Mitchell now either. Horrific game 7 for the good guys

wooltab

3 | 6 hours ago

The Blazers had a fair amount of injury disruption, as well as the coach being arrested after game #1.

And the play in was the Suns. It was a solid season for Portland.

Still_Detail_4285

47 | 8 hours ago

Not a lot of sports related jobs in Portland. Good luck to all the regular people that were living their dream working for an NBA team.

CommodoreIrish | Spurs

16 | 8 hours ago

There’s a pretty sizable shoe company in Portland that is sports adjacent.

pcrackenhead | Trail Blazers

21 | 7 hours ago

Two, actually. Adidas US HQ is in Portland in addition to Nike being in Beaverton.

1850ChoochGator | Trail Blazers

8 | 6 hours ago

Under Armour has a corporate office here also iirc

CazOnReddit | Raptors

4 | 8 hours ago

Aren’t the Trail Blazers the only sports team in Oregon?

biggieBpimpin | Trail Blazers

9 | 7 hours ago

Professionally you have the Trailblazers and Timbers on the men’s side. Fire and Thorns on the women’s side. So just soccer and basketball.

Winterhawks play hockey at the WHL level, which is where some players get drafted from.

Hillsboro Hops are a minor league baseball team in the suburbs.

There is a push for an MLB team at the moment, along with really cool stadium mock ups on the river. But it remains to be seen of that would actually happen. No professional football, hockey, or baseball at the moment though.

CazOnReddit | Raptors

6 | 7 hours ago

I completely forgot the Fire, my bad

biggieBpimpin | Trail Blazers

8 | 7 hours ago

Brand new franchise this year (kind of new kind of a revival I guess), so understandable

OldDekeSport

4 | 6 hours ago

Im rooting for Portland and Raleigh in the MLB expansion, so here’s hoping yall get a team!

PianoJealous307

20 | 8 hours ago

Dundon is gonna have Sharpe doing accounting

pcrackenhead | Trail Blazers

5 | 7 hours ago

As long as he doesn’t need to play defense doing that, I could see it working.

Alternative-Mud4739

18 | 8 hours ago

Mr. Cheapo is going to sell half the Blazers fans if it means he will save 30 cents

CazOnReddit | Raptors

3 | 8 hours ago

62 cents

ASadChongyunMain | Spurs

16 | 8 hours ago

Turning into the Kings is a fate worse than death

CazOnReddit | Raptors

4 | 8 hours ago

Okay, they’re not in that bad a spot

The owner sucks but they’re not “Tearing it down for us means we trade Lavine and Sabonis” bad

Mysterious_Piglet562

1 | 4 hours ago

Ehhh I don’t exactly know why Vivek and co deserve hate on the business side of things.

They got a new arena built and aren’t running the actual business ops like a venture capitalist with no soul.

However yeah the Kings ownership group are absolutely terrible when it comes to running a winning basketball team

FaithlessnessMost660 | Supersonics

1 | 3 hours ago

Evil vs incompetent

Sweaty_Butterfly9461

19 | 8 hours ago

the mckinsification of an nba team, not even a fortune 500 company. thats how you know greeds at an all time high

dontgetitwisted_fr | Raptors

7 | 8 hours ago

Had a freind who’s dream was to work for McKinsey.

No suprise, she was shallow and greedy AF but not good enough at it to get a job there.

Lmao

RollBlobRoll | Pacers

9 | 8 hours ago

Copilot, you are the CFO of a sports team. I have attached your balance sheet and income statement. Without investing any money, or spending more on marketing, winning games, or selling merch, how do you make more money?

mufflar | New Zealand

9 | 8 hours ago

Glad Mike Schmitz got out of there. Mavericks made some great front office hires recently

LegoTomSkippy | Spurs

8 | 8 hours ago

Dundon to Clingan: “if you can clean the windows, you can clean the glass!” Hands him a rag and some Great Value Windex.

CazOnReddit | Raptors

7 | 8 hours ago

I’m sure those profits will trickle down to the remaining people any day now

Right?

Right?

mrb4 | Suns

6 | 8 hours ago

never thought I’d see an owner who apparently makes Robert Sarver look like the Sultan of Brunei

Highway-Sixty-Fun | Knicks

6 | 7 hours ago

Free Luigi he did nothing wrong

amari_prince | Thunder

6 | 8 hours ago

So trash man.

Radiant-Banana161

5 | 8 hours ago

They let go Casey Holdahl. Insane.

206sportguy

5 | 8 hours ago

This all falls on Adam Silvers lap, commish is involved in any new ownership in the league. Seeing this happen in 2026 is crazy

ShapeOfAUnicorn | Raptors

5 | 7 hours ago

Why even buy a team if you’re going to be so cheap? I don’t get it.

Dampbridge

5 | 7 hours ago

the billionaire owner is going to save dozens of pennies with this move. Honestly if he actually tried to lead a successful nba team he’d probably earn much more money by pumping up the evaluation

Muted-Woodpecker-469

1 | 7 hours ago

Look at the Oakland as. Even with bad cheap ownership, they never lost value. Sure you aren’t gaining it at the same level as someone truly thriving. But I’m sure they’ll be happy to flip the team in two decades for double their investment. At that point they’re fine with the hypothetical gains. It’s a take less daunting and work to try. So they’ve gone the other direction

echc47 | Trail Blazers

5 | 6 hours ago

This dude is speed running How to Kill Your Team’s Competitiveness 101

9millibros

3 | 8 hours ago

I guess he watched Major League and wondered if it would work in the NBA.

freekobe0832 | Magic

2 | 8 hours ago

Let’s make a naked cardboard cutout of him

Pyritedust | Bucks

1 | 6 hours ago

That’s just a bit outside the realm of sanity. :P

OccidoViper

3 | 7 hours ago

Owner wants to move the team to Nashville

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

3 | 7 hours ago

Man trailblazers could have been a feel good story with their over performance this year and Dame about to come back.

Nope, somehow their head coach being caught up in a gambling scandal is not the worst thing to happen to them recently. It was their new owner buying the team so he can ruin everything about it

cactusmaster69420 | San Diego Clippers

3 | 7 hours ago

I wonder how much Balmer would offer and the Blazers guy would take if it were legal

Background_Touchdown | Spurs

3 | 6 hours ago

Getting rid of Donald Sterling, only to allow this clown in the league

RobbobertoBuii | Knicks

2 | 8 hours ago

ruthless like corporate…

BadNewsBrown | 76ers

2 | 8 hours ago

Looks like they will implement AI

United_Dare5036

2 | 7 hours ago

Imagine when its time to pay Deni the Max

FaithlessnessMost660 | Supersonics

1 | 3 hours ago

Haha yeah the Dundon Max: 5 years, 1 million, up to 2 million if you break Wilts record and also do some of our bookkeeping on the side.

OMJuwara | Nets

2 | 7 hours ago

Damn. Sorry Blazers fans

berkilak420 | Clippers

2 | 7 hours ago

Shams would have dropped the whole list of names.

Shingorillaz | Timberwolves

2 | 7 hours ago

Yea every other team needs to call the Blazers about trades. Stupid teams/owners invigorate the good teams in the league

el-bow5 | Hawks

2 | 7 hours ago

the Blazers are getting DOGEd

Dead_Inside50 | Pistons

2 | 7 hours ago

Welcome to Kalamazoo!

SebastianC1

2 | 7 hours ago

Silver masterclass this year. Ruined the only way for bad teams in small markets to get better and gonna leave teams in hell for a decade and now he’s letting this asshole ruin the trailblazers. Adam silver fuck you

AllOutRaptors | Raptors

1 | 6 hours ago

Agree but also I like the new tanking rules. If you can’t get better without purposefully losing for 5 seasons in a row you don’t deserve to be good. ³⁄₄ of the teams left got good due to smart trades and roster moves. Spurs are the exception but Wemby doesn’t come in to the league every draft

gen_wt_sherman | Cavaliers

2 | 7 hours ago

Fuck thomas dundon

motherseffinjones | Raptors

2 | 5 hours ago

The blazers seemed to be on a good path and this new owners seems ready to fuck it up

ZaSunsFan | Suns

2 | 5 hours ago

That’s why I scoffed at people saying Ishbia was the worst owner in the league. Is he too hands on? For sure but he actually seems to care about fans and not just making a profit.

Brent_L

2 | 4 hours ago

He’s trying to relocate the team

yoyocc

1 | 6 hours ago

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a sports team laying people off, I’m sure it’s going to go well. To my knowledge, the owner brings in at least a hundred million in NBA revenue, so this is all likely chump change for him.

AllOutRaptors | Raptors

1 | 6 hours ago

As a Raptors fan from Vancouver I’d be absolutely gutted if Portland lost their team because of this cheap fuck. Going down there to watch a Raptors Blazers game is always the highlight of my year. I know we are getting Seattle back, but i love the vibe of Portland, and they support the hell out of their team.

Selfishly, I’d also love to do that road trip and be able to watch 2 games a year instead of 1

Portland deserves better.

sunken_grade | Trail Blazers

1 | 6 hours ago

yeah this fucking blows

Homme26

1 | 5 hours ago

Shitty thing to do during a shitty economy that will just antagonize fans and demoralize the remaining employees.

m0nkeyhero | Knicks

1 | 5 hours ago

El Cheapo is the worst. Sorry rip city, y’all deserve better.

Equalizer101 | Lakers

1 | 5 hours ago

LOL, Blazers Players will be flying Economy Class next season.

i-race-goats | Rockets

1 | 3 hours ago

Saw it was 20% of the staff. Which means before the cuts there were 350 full timers. I hate to be that guy but that’s A LOT. I know a lot of teams hover in the 200-250 range.

oliver__tree_ | Trail Blazers

1 | 2 hours ago

Man. This season has been a rollercoaster of giveth-and-taketh-away. Dame comes back, only for our HC to be arrested for gambling with ties to the mafia mere hours after opening night (wild headline). We get our first homegrown All-Star since Dame, only for him to get into a car accident and get a back injury that has haunted him since. Make it to the playoffs for the first time in five years, only for the entire thing to be overshadowed by the news of El Cheapo on an active coaching hunt in the middle of our first (miraculous) post-season run in half a decade. Oh well, at least we got the Fire this year with different owners. If Dundon wants to play the hypercapitalism game, guess what baby, now there’s competition.

prfrnir

0 | 8 hours ago

I mean…even if names were named, how many of them are going to be anyone readers have heard of?

DramaticSimple4315

0 | 7 hours ago

Like seriously, I’m not trying to overlook or play down this mass firing believe me.

But in this day and age, of billions in TV money, packed/sold out arenas with insane prices, people from all around the world buying jerseys, gilded age sleazy corporate class filling out the luxury boxes, what exactly is a commercial/business team for? Serious question

Dangerous_Ad5039

0 | 5 hours ago

What’s everyone gonna say when the Trail Blazers actually start winning?

epsilon1856 | Spurs

-1 | 6 hours ago

Did Wemby destroy Portland like Godzilla or what

webelieve925

-1 | 5 hours ago

John Fisher Oakland Athletics playbook to move the team. Welcome your new las vegas blazers.

[Sean Highkin] Was told around 70 people were let go today in the Blazers’ layoffs on the business side. Know some of the names but out of respect to them I’ll let them announce it when and how they will.