Wweek.com - Portland Must Confront the Real Danger of Losing the Blazers

I see what you did there. Please don't blame that on auto correct.

 

Loydd Center is a logistics nightmare my friend.

 

Yeah and I think the owners probably want to keep expansion open in Seattle and Vegas so they can collect those sweet checks when they do ultimately create those teams.

 

So will any place where we want an entertainment district, so.

 

It all depends on whether expansion is real or not. If some owners legitimately do not want to expand.... and also whether they think the talent pool is too thin. It just feels like the NBA isn't as talented as it used to be, so you're talking about watering it down even further.

I could see the league valuing a team in Vegas over Seattle or Portland.

 

I’m talking about to build.

 

If you were handicapping this what would you say the odds are that the Blazers are relocated to any other market. I'd say the odds that they Blazers get moved are under 15%.

 

I’d say 10%

 

I don't even know dude.... we aren't privy to all the information. I wish we knew who about who is talking about buying the team.

 

You're right. There are a lot of variables that we're completely in the dark on. It seems to me that the set values make it very very likely that our team will stay but those variables that we're waiting to see on are definitely big enough to sway that likelihood the other way.

 

if expansion was about expansion fees the NBA would have 50 teams. But expansion sure seems to be on hold and it looks like a majority of owners want to get a lot further into the new media deal (that starts this season) before diluting the shares, and talent, further

it doesn't matter how may time fans argue that the math of expansion is 'logical', the owners can do math too; and they have accountants that can do it even better

I don't think there's any chance that the Blazers could be moved to Seattle. Vegas is another matter

 

Same answer, brother!

 

That is simply not the case.