Vegas is a different animal though. Having the Blazers will be more about marketing Park MGM than anything. They can afford heavy losses to recoup later.
Sports are going to go through a drastic change. Sports betting is now legal and the NBA wants a piece of every dollar bet. They are working with the big books and gaming companies to make an agreement. If this happens the NBA could within a decade make more money from gambling than TV contracts. Increased revenue from gambling will change how the NBA looks at team locations. Portland doesn't do much for national TV ratings. Portland also wouldn't do much for sports bettors. But a Vegas or Anaheim team would get lots of attention from national TV and betting audiences. The relocation committee isn't going to care about a small market area of the country when moving the team can make all of the owners more money.
So sports betting is your reasoning for why the relocation committee is more likely to move the Blazers to Vegas than the Kings (with what was their run down arena and super-low attendance) to Seattle? You're smarter than that. I've never been so ashamed of anything you've posted. Sheesh.
I think that would be the case for me too tbh. You'd have to think we'd be very likely to get that baseball team though, because the 22nd largest market or w/e it is now would be very attractive to an NHL/MLB team to have to themselves.
Went through lists of high net worth individuals who might consider owning the Blazers, who are not super old: Not in any particular order: Jeff Bezos (Amazon) Howard Schultz (Starbux) Jensen Huang (Nvidia) ~Went to Oregon State Not that I know of, I just went through a list of billionaires haha and those listed had the following qualities: -Were Younger -Had Ties to the Northwest -Have lots of money The richest person with Intel ties I could find was Gordon Moore and he is 89, so likely out.
