It starts from the top down.....

Any marketing campaign would be wasted, since the Oregonian has a powerful anti-marketing plan. The paper nationally devalued Sheed, Zach, etc. so that we got little for them. When those players went to areas with normal NBA media, they excelled.

If Allen spends on a constructive image, the Oregonian will counter by increasing its micro-coverage of negative personal details. The Oregonian hates the team (especially ghetto accents), and laughingly makes sport of destroying it.

 

I think when your owner fires his GM on draft day and still expects him to make pics..... your owner looks like a clown!!

 

Harry Glickman was the person responsible for the Blazers getting the expansion franchise, and he then turned to the outside investors. Up until the day that Paul Allen bought the team, although Glickman wasn't the majority owner (Weinberg was), he did oversee the daily operations of the team for the entire history of the franchise. He was born and raised in Portland. How you could completely ignore him in a "history" of the franchise is baffling to me.

 

How can you hate this team? The bad boy days are over! I think now is the perfect time to put a campaign around Crash and LA, this city will eat that up especially how high Ptown is on these guys right now.

 

Such as what? Creating an older roster that won less games than the previous season, and again lost in the first-round of the playoffs?

Year one of Cho wasn't exactly a huge win for the franchise, and the Wallace trade was a "team effort", according to Jordan pal Larry Miller.

 

Glickman found the 3 original owners I listed, but wasn't an original owner himself. As the GM, did they later pay him a few shares of ownership, so that he eventually became a small minority owner?

I just looked it up and there is no mention of him being even a minority owner. This thread is about how impossible it is to get a very rich local owner, not a nonowner organizer who finds nonlocal owners (not very rich either, poor enough to need 3 partners) as he did. Even if they later gave Glickman a few shares (did they?), he's still not an example of a very rich local Blazer owner. Paul Allen would still be the most local owner in both Blazer and Sonic history.

 

My point was that you ignored Glickman's role, as a Portland native, in attaining and then running the franchise until Paul Allen bought the team. Shame on you.

 

I must not be thinking clearly. I don't see how this bogeyman you just invented shows 1) how we can find a super-rich local owner to replace Allen, or shows 2) why Allen is bad for having Kolde and the the Hat Man around.

So tell me, how are either of those 2 items proven by your fact that nonowner Glickman recruited 3 owners, who made him their GM? Following your logic, you could also say that since Whitsitt did the legwork to advise Allen to become Seahawks owner, this makes Whitsitt an example of how the Blazers could find a more local replacement for Allen.

Huh? Do you have any idea of what you're talking about? Are you dizzy from watching those hamburgers flip in the air? Hold your head steady.

 

Huh what? Replying to YOUR thread is bottom feeding? Is that an indictment on me or you?

So are these an amendment to the "rules" you set forth for Nate the other day? Let's see:

Yardape's Rules for NBA Owners:

* all owners must live in the city in which their team plays - no exceptions.
* all owners must only hire coaches & assistants that have played for the team and no other teams.
* no owner should ever hire away talent from any rival - this is considered bad form.
* all owners must provide free t-shirts to fans to keep them happy.
* all owners must ignore any small market disadvantages and snatch top FA's away from more metropolitan, diverse and glamorous locations like LA, Chicago and South Beach. Paul Allen only: if your city's weather sucks, either don't tell them about the rain & overcast skies or just buy new weather (you can afford it).
* all owners must be more like Mark Cuban because all Dallas does is win NBA titles year after year after year.

Did I miss anything or can I go ahead and email the list to PA now?

 

Now that I'm done persuading everyone that Paul Allen is a genius, let's return to the real issue. How do we persuade the moron to fire McMillan?

 

We must not run in the same circles or you'd know Portland is awash in billionaires.

Here's an item about one of their frequent get-togethers for civic activism:

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com.../10/22/billionaires-for-wealthcare-at-the-mac