Ben Golliver: Paul Allen emerges as latest lockout villain

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  1. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/32841752

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    Good times.
     
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    he's stalling until GO is ready to play!
     
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    What a lame column.

    Paul Allen is a hard-liner, and probably because he's lost tens of millions of dollars. How much has Kevin Garnett lost since he joined the NBA?

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    I would replace villain with a five letter word for a female dog
     
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    So basically all he did was deliver a message on behalf of the owners?

    Yeah, not seeing the villain angle here, and I'm not a PA fan at all.
     
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    Paul Allen is the 1% of the 1%.
     
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    I definitely do not feel sorry for PA in terms of losing money. I appreciate him spending the money that he did, and as a fan I am grateful for his efforts, but the management of the franchise was less than steller as he let trader Bob go crazy with the checkbook. That being said, the article was absurd.
     
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    Apparently Paul ate Ben Golliver's children.

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    Summary: Golliver's bias is against the players. It is unknown information to him that everyone has considered Stern by far the biggest villain for many many years.

    Summary: Golliver's other slant in life is to hate the Blazers. He's a member of the local media. Only in Portland does the media think it's their job to hate their own team.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    For the rest of the article, I typed blah blah blah because I read only the first 10 words and it was all hatred of Allen. I already know Golliver is a dick and I don't need to read his bullshit. I wish he'd fucking jump off a cliff.
     
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    You have to hate the team if you want to be accepted by the local media. I refused to get on the Oregonian's pain train and was ostracized for it.
     
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    This is somewhat ironic (Ben Golliver) when you consider he called out Jason Quick and Canzano for their sensationalism in the past (and one time got into a tiff with Quick on twitter after Quick made a dig at BlazersEdge/bloggers).

    Unfortunately BE has slowly deteriorated in recent years, and Golliver is a part of that. He's gotten particularly more snarky and sensational with the rise of Durant (he is afterall the draftkevindurant guy and has a
    Durant blazers jersey, and Durant blazer colorway shoes) and firing of Pritchard.

    You would think he would at least be a bit more respectful and dignified (and less sensational: see his comment about Allen being uninformed because he has Larry Miller attend BOG meetings) in his public articles, considering without Allen allowing bloggers access to the team it is unlikely he'd have his spot at cbssports or Blazers edge.
     
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    Ben is the one looking like an ass on this one.
     
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    According to Steve Patterson (I know, consider the source), Paul Allen has lost close to $1 billion on the Blazers alone during his time as Blazer owner. I think that number may be actually on the low side considering the debacle of the late '90s-early '00s in terms of salary costs.
     
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    It is common for sports writers to become jaded and burned out after a few years on the beat. It's not the same world as it is for the fans. In a way, it would be like working at Disneyland. You would never look at the park again in the same way after having been in the tunnels under ground and witnessing how everything works. It changes your perception about sports and the people involved in it.
     
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    I don't care if he's lost a Trillion dollars, you'd think a man of his stature would be able to communicate, you know, with words
     
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    He's lost tens of millions so he decides to fuck it up for everyone? That's like being pissed off that your Bentley has bad mileage, so you buy the company and have it run by Lada.

    If Paul Allen got into the NBA to make money then he's as big a financial idiot as... well, as he's actually appeared to be all along.

    And really - asking if Kevin Garnett lost money? That's your argument Ed? Time to step up your game.
     
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    He pretty much always does, but he's right that the owners are the ones pushing the lockout. Check out this analysis of their purported reasons for not agreeing:

     
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    It's a negotiation. Sometimes not saying anything is effective communication.

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