Just sat on the porch with my next door neighbor just talking. Grown man crying......he has the same cancer as Mr. Allen. Tough to console somebody when news like this drops.
Too many people close to me and my family have died the last couple years... Im almost numb to it... This sucks though it really does.
He did actually. 1080 had a guy on who worked for the Blazers between 92 and 98. He said that the team almost moved to San Diego until Paul stepped in and put his own money up for the Rose Garden. He said we came very close to losing the team.
I am shocked and completely floored by this news. I can't believe it. Thank you so much for everything you did for Portland in keeping the Trail Blazers here and for the world overall Mr. Allen. RIP
Man! Words cannot say how deeply saddened by the passing of Paul Allen I am. Like so many of you I appreciate not just the fact that he saved Pro basketball in our beloved city, but the fact he loved the team as much as we did. That meant everything. I so wanted the Blazers to win the title, not just for us, but for him. Thank You Paul for everything you brought to rip city. Blessings to your family and the whole Trailblazers organization. I will miss you.
I don't buy that. San Diego didn't have an arena back then that was any better than the MC (their arena still is a dump). The process of building the RG was started in 1991, with the creation of the Oregon Arena Corp, with Paul Allen being basically the guy who ran it (the OAC). The construction of the RG was coming off two trips of the finals, the Tournament of the Americas and the NBA draft. The construction of the arena started in 93. It might have been that the team used moving as a threat to get the city to help (the team at one time threatened to move to Vancouver Wa, but this was before Paul Allen I think). But the ball was already rolling *before* this guy started working for the team. There is NO way that the team was "almost" moved to San Diego during the time frame that he worked for the team. Moving the team after two trips to the finals (he started in 92)? Yeah, not buying.
I've been reading about him tonight. He put up 5/6 of the initial money for movie studio Dreamworks SKG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks#DreamWorks_SKG:_original_founding ---------------- After his death, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen said https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-a...s-seattle-seahawks-reaction-today-2018-10-15/
Here's a tid bit of Paul trivia regarding the Blazers. Okay I thought of another. 1. He had an apartment built in the Rose Garden for his mom to stay in; 2. When he sold the "Blazer 1" airplane, the buyer was none other than Donald Trump.
