Portland needs Dollar Tree sponsorship patches to reflect their new thrifty culture.

This guy fucking suuuucks

Prioritizing putting his entire family’s names on the Stanley Cup at the expense of key members of the organization demonstrates exactly the kind of person/owner he is.

i feel so bad for blazers fans

Which analytic metric is Tom Dundon min-maxing? Is this going to change the game forever?

He passes the savings onto fans… right?

Lmao they’re owned by the guy who put his entire families name on the Stanley Cup before any players, coaches, or GMs right?

They have more guards in their 7-man rotation than coaches/staff on the bench

The only thing worse than billionaire owners in general is a thrifty billionaire owner

I feel bad for Trailblazer fans, and bad for the league in general for letting this guy be an owner.

Typical Private Equity guy.

Compared to the Clippers last night who had two nearly three rows of staff on the bench and a few on the courtside seats on the baseline

They’ll use AI coaches for strength and conditioning 😭

Every NHL fan acting like this is okay cause he has championship experience needs to pipe the fuck down. It’s clear the direction he is taking the blazers and it’s apples to oranges comparing the two leagues

Am I the only one who thinks this is waaaaaaaaaaaay down the totem pole of stuff Dundon has done? Nori’s staff isn’t fully built yet, we didn’t have a draft pick at all and Yang didn’t even play last night. Of course it’s gonna be a ghost town.

If you don’t have 87 coaches present for summer league, how can you possibly know you have the right 12th man for your G league team?

maybe those seats are already engraved with his family’s names on them so people don’t want to sit there

He legit sold loans to people loans to people he knew would default. But used white leverage to make billions. Yep. Billions. Off of you. Why is he alive? Head on a spike life. Yet gets a golden toilet and easy life. Beyond communism. Societism.

Empty seats? You can sell those for a few hundred bucks a pop! What can those coaches do that ChatGPT can’t, anyway?

This new low-cost strategy will make Dundon look like a genius, or a fool.

No in between.

El cheapo strikes again

Tom Duncan saw every Reddit comment ever criticizing a sports owner for being cheap and said “hold my Michelob Ultra”.

Coaches for what? 😭 we had no draft picks, the only pick of ours on the SL team is Yang, we only have 1 two way spot open, and one roster spot open. Genuinely what are we talking about? This is a nothing burger. There is almost nothing of substance on this team other than the development of Yang and he didn’t even play yesterday!

Oh man… Portland is just fucking cursed at this point. Been through some rough ups and downs finally have a very promising young squad but with this cheap ass owner they’re hard capped at mid. You need a good coaching staff and a deep team to win in this era. You may luckily get one with El Cheapo very low odds of getting both.

This guy is a clown 

Friendly reminder that the wealthy and powerful personally benefit from making the lives of the lower class worse and more miserable.

Portland Cheapblazers

Did all the Raptors assistants just get out of jail or something lol?

Well, see, you’re looking at this as a sports team instead of a money making venture.

I’m on team Dundon sucks, but tbf we are rolling out a sack of potatoes and a piece of stale bread in summer league

I counted 23 staff members (or people in pink) for the spurs. do you really need that many when maybe 1 non contracted guy is gonna make the actual roster?

this sounds like a guy who put all his ducks into purchasing the blazers and now he gotta make that money back

sucks for the fans, players, staff, and so forth

Kinda makes tbh. Most teams have TOO many coaches. Blazers trimmed down the fat and only have the coaches they actually need. Nothing wrong with that. Why do you need 20 coaches doing the same shit? Im exaggerating but u get the point

Dumdum thinks basketball and hockey are the same and the practices he had with his (albeit Stanley Cup winning) hockey side will translate to the NBA. We’ve begun to call him Dumdum for a reason…

That and trying to rip $650mil from our city, county, and state who are absolutely hurting for funds right now. Dude has already become a nightmare.

Just wait till the team drafts a pre-med player just to have him double duty as the team physician.

This guy seems like one of those, “I’m smarter than everyone at everything,” types. This type of penny pinching at an elite level doesn’t go unnoticed by others around the league. I still can’t believe Micah Nori took that deal to coach them.

This consequences for this type of shit doesn’t show up for a while either. But now all these summer league players and then training camp and in season guys won’t have someone working with them. It’ll stunt their player development, can lead to bad habits and then 2-3 years down the line things start to show. It’s the private equity playbook. And it’s where this asshole made his money, so it’s not going to change.

I’m hoping players like Dame and Jrue step forward and say, “hey this isn’t how you do things in the NBA.”

I’m at best incredibly apathetic towards Dundon, would’ve preferred someone who actually has connections to the PNW. I’m hoping for the best, but not going to hold my breath. I just want them to stay in Portland

This is the same sub that constantly says that “summer league doesn’t matter,” right?

I hate this bum ass owner BUT aren’t most teams overstaffed? Larry Bird’s memoir about coaching the pacers had a part where he was like “one head coach, one offensive coordinator, one defensive coordinator, and that’s it.”

I keep telling myself maybe this stinginess will lead to unexpected positive results, but the only thing keeping that idea alive is that I’m not a Blazers fan

sigh

My firm got bought out by PE Try destroy everything

I don’t blame Jaylen Brown for not wanting to be traded there

The league needs to start doing salary floor and cap but for coaches and back-office staff. Dundon shouldn’t be able to handicap the Blazers because he sees the team primarily as an investment opportunity and rich owners shouldn’t be able to create an overwhelming advantage by spending on perks

The NBA has too many coaches nowadays. When LeBron came in there were only 2 assistants now there’s like 7.

Fuck Streamable

The Clippers had literally 20 coaches at their game last night (JVG was joking about it).

This reminds me of jon Bois videos.

Not worth crying about. Does having 25 people on the staff make you successful in the league.

Blazers somehow gonna fuck around and win a ship soon lmao

Dundon is absurdly funny. He just made the NHL engrave his 10 year old son’s name on the Stanley Cup.

So glad we rescued Tiago from that terrible place

How many coaches is too few? Like what’s the cutoff where adding any more coaches provides diminishing returns?

when was this photo taken? was it by chance after Steward had a nasty injury and maybe some of the staff members are in the locker room?

Guy reminds me of the ex-showgirl wife of Donald Phelps. Is he trying to move the team?

Is this the thread where people who never gave a single thought to how many coaches a team had at summer league before all suddenly care for no reason other than social media told them to?

U think he moves the team from Portland ?

The Oakland As of the Portland.

Destroyed a great franchise that was RISING. Use the popularity to enrich himself and his NEPO babies. Fun fact for veal fans. Rich nepo babies are more succulent. Feed on their flesh

Stop pocket watching lol

Trailblazers have always been one of the trashier orgs. From rapes, sexual assault, gambling, more rape and now this.

They don’t deserve a team. Give them to Vegas.

“Most teams” have. So not all. What do the rest of the teams that aren’t part of the “most” have? Seems like a disingenuous hit piece.

Everyone keeps trying to call this guy cheap… But his other team won the Stanley cup. Owners are important to enabling winning. Maybe he isn’t so bad as you all like to imply.

BTW, I have no dog in this fight.