What now? Ownership, etc

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  1. Rozay

    Rozay Well-Known Member

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    By age yes it’s pretty old. But condition wise it’s really a nice place. I believe they have enough suites if not more than the new arenas, restaurants, huge concourse, I don’t know who designed that arena but somehow they anticipated for the future really well
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

     
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    Hopefully better than he did as a player. But I think you are right...
     
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    Great article

    “An NBA source said Tuesday the league has no interest at all in the Blazers relocating to Seattle, shooting down one of the early rumors that surfaced after Allen died Monday of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 65. The Blazers’ lease with the City of Portland at the Moda Center runs through at least 2025, the team is making money — unlike struggling franchises in Memphis and New Orleans — and the league also is uninterested in repairing its image in Seattle by hurting another Northwest city.”

    Ding ding ding
     
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    In other words: Logic, not conspiracy.
     
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    That is a good article. Kudos.
     
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    I'll just leave this here....

    Media market ranking in US
    #21 Portland
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    #40 Las Vegas
     
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    There is absolutely no need for a new arena. None.
     
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    Whoa, how dare you bring facts into this!
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    I did not realize Bert Kolde was so involved. https://www.oregonlive.com/business...rt_kolde_paul_allens_college.html#incart_2box

    Guess we need to be aware of this guy a bit more.
     
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    Ha! That would be pretty cool if Oprah bought the blazers.
     
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    This is what Quick had about Kolde from 7 yrs ago.
    https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/06/trail_blazers_owner_paul_allen.html

    This is a bit chilling:
    It's really frustrating that Quick is now behind a paywall at the Athletic. He prolly has more insight into the workings behind Vulcan than anyone outside the organization itself.
     
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    I dunno. Chi already has two baseball teams. Maybe she will want them to have to NBA teams as well.
     
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    A Paulson/Kobe partnership would be very interesting.
     
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    Do they have the $ if it's just the two of them? Their combined net worth still prolly won't be as much as the potential purchase price (~1.3 B)
     
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    Vegas or Seattle
     
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    I'm not sure what you are saying by naming those cities, is it that they would provide public funding?

    Vegas is a unique situation where they are basically just taxing visitors instead of residents.

    Seattle lost the Sonics because they were unwilling to give more money for an arena.
     
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    Technically jinxspeed is an NBA source because he sang the anthem. So is The HCP
     
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    Now they have one
     
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    They can take the grizzlies or pelicans word is those teams lose money
     
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