“Dundon lobbies for a return of player-coaches; Deni Avdija to double as hot dog salesman during timeouts”

IIRC, Sarver asked his GM at the time why the Suns couldn’t do that.

bout to set up a gofundme for the game ball every home game

No way.
Makes no sense to pay 3 guys to sit on the bench.
Also why pay a coach. Ever heard of a player coach?

Would the fines be higher than the salary he’d have to pay the players? I’m sure he’s doing that math while we speak

That’s the point. Piss off everyone and then move to another city, saying “See!? They don’t even want us in Portland” 

Everyone’s saying it’s because he wants to move the team.

But it’s simpler than that. He’s a fucking dickhead. No matter what he wants, no matter the outcome, he will always be a fucking dickhead.

The NBA really fucked up letting this guy in. Because this shit is never going to end.

They just got rid of Sterling, Sarver, and Glen Taylor. You think they would’ve learned their lesson about cheap ass prick owners, but then they let this guy in the club.

I remember hearing so many bad stories coming out of Carolina when he first took over the Hurricanes. He made all the scouts cover their own phone bills lol

This fucker got lucky in the NHL and happened to hire a savant gm (for cheap since he is was a young and unproven stat nerd) in Eric Tulsky who made great moves to win the Stanley cup while only using around 87% of a hard cap in a league where most of the recent cup winners were over the cap using medical and other loopholes during the playoffs, and also having a great coaching staff.

Basically he is gonna get worse because it paid off once so he has confirmation bias being a cheap ass is a way forward. Also he put his name and his wife and kids on the Stanley cup before anyone else, absolute clown. Sorry for Blazers fans but hopefully he sells the team at some point…

trying to move the team

He’s lowballing the cheap guys of the organization. The coach, the staff, the announcer. What’s gonna happen when he needs to pay the players 😂 Deni is an all star and on the best valued contract in the league. He has quite the payday coming up

Billionaire greed, it’s a hell of a drug

He did this with Carolina. Came in and said VPs only make 300k in other industries so there is no need to make more in the nhl. He’s lowballed all current staff and lowballed their current coach who is a top 5 coach.

No idea why people have stuck around. They could 3x their worth on a new team. Maybe trailblazers will end up differently but doubtful.

He’s even making jokes on the way out! Kc is such a fucking legend and im going to miss him.

Fuck Tom Dundon.

Yeah, definitely intentional. Calabro was the best and he’s still cracking jokes on his way out the door… sucks to see him go

Savage, even

Legend.

The reports when he did the same to his NHL team, were that the broadcasting team were offered 80% pay cuts.

In The Big Short, Margot Robbie told me subprime means shit.

There’s no “might” about it.

If Steve Ballmer wants a shot at actually buying popularity, he should sell the Clippers and become the new Paul Allen for the Blazers.

Wild how the team just made the playoffs for the first time in several years and seemed to have positive momentum on the court yet the vibes are suddenly the worst they’ve been in ages.

I give up man, Dundon is making everything worse by the HOUR it seems like. I don’t know how you can be quoted in an interview saying you care about the “fan experience” and then let go a Hall of Fame play by play guy in Calabro. The guy is an evil moron.

No, the Portland Blazers are dead, and thats exactly what he wants

Wouldn’t be surprised if we can no longer watch games for free over the air next season.

Just watch Dundon circumvent the cap floor by signing a family member or a lawyer as a benchwarmer on a max contract

One of the top 3 play-by-play guys in the league in this League Pass subscriber’s opinion

Edit: and I’m not biased in Calabro’s favor in any way, he definitely wasn’t the voice of my childhood basketball fandom or anything like that

The guy wouldn’t allow 2 ways to fly to playoff games. Only person in the league who has done that. Portland is about to be avoided at all costs for everyone involved.

Not the first time he’s done this either. The Carolina Hurricanes had John Forslund doing PBP for them since they were the Hartford Whalers (over 2 decades). Any hockey fan will know he’s one of the very best in the business.

They let him walk after Dundon lowballed him.

He did the same thing when he bought the Hurricanes

You only really need one broadcaster working from home and five players.

Yang even lost his translator 

We do too 🥺

I would be very down with that–great idea, honestly. Kevin is the fuckin man.

Because their previous guy stuck himself in the wrong opening.

Silver acts on the behalf of all 30 owners.

The 29 others will gladly let this play out, if only so there’s another incompetent team they could beat on a consistent basis.

It’s because this is what the other owners secretly want to do & if Dundon can set a precedent for cost cutting bullshit like this and still have a decent product they’ll just copy him. It’s like a test case for treating a franchise like a private equity acquisition.

Did you not hear that NBA Europe is happening?

What do you think the commissioner’s job is?

This is Ludicrous Speed.

Minimum wage? Or minimum wage with tips so he can lower the hourly further?

Gonna do what the Arizona Cardinals do and charge the players for food

Unfortunately for him the salary floor is $148M.

Sport has never made me sad like this. Not the 00s playoff losses to the Lakers. Not Dame leaving. Not the pick in the Hawks/Pats Super Bowl. Nothing. This isn’t on field disappoint, this is a billionaire ruining 50 years of history and passion and a team I’ve loved since I was child because fuck us, that’s why.

I felt this with the A’s. I’m sorry you guys are going through this.

#Fuck Tom Dundon

The part I don’t get is where does he think he’s going to move the team to?? Seattle and Vegas sound like they’re more or less spoken for by way of expansion, what other city would be a better market than PDX? Or is it another fuckin Clay Bennett situation and this guy wants to move the team to whatever shithole he’s from?

Kev and Lamar were basically the only reason to tune into the horrible seasons full of ten day contracts after all star break.

The only silver lining here is maybe if the Seattle expansion goes ahead as planned, Calabro gets to have his homecoming and do a few seasons with you guys before he hangs up the mic.

I cannot imagine him uprooting his life to work for any team outside of the PNW.

How many games until Grok drops a racial slur?

probably actually a fan of his hockey team

It’s called trauma bonding

I doubt he ever shows up tbh. He might hide in the Allen apartment just to micromanage because he thinks the team is using too much water or something.

billionaires have none, it’s why they are billionaires. like, it’s a defining characteristic

Lamar and Brooke are probably gonna ditch or get fired too

The other owners who also want to start lowballing their staff

He’s going to need a box seat so he can’t hear all the f you’s

He should be afraid to

Of course not. Have you seen the ticket prices?

Vivek is dumb not evil. Something I’ve tried to caution my fellow Kings fans against. I’m just bummed this fucking asshole bought the team the city I’ve called home for over twenty years.

No thanks. I want Calabro back.