Merritt Paulson group the next owner of the Blazers? http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2012/05/canzano_if_paul_allen_ever_sel.html
3 lobbyists asked Canzano to float a trial balloon in a column to advocate that the Timbers owner buy the Blazers. When Canzano phoned owner Merritt Paulson, he claimed no interest. This leaves the mystery of who is paying the lobbyists for this campaign. Canzano once again tells us that he thinks he's running the team, chirping from his peanut perch in a cage lined with his articles to catch his droppings. In 40 years of reading NBA articles, I've never seen a reporter who thinks he's the owner's equal.
I'm all for it. Time for a clean slate. New ownership. New Management. New training staff. New head coach. New team. Let's do this!
Snap your fingers, say Abra Cadabra, and wait for $400 million to appear on your hand. Until then, I'm going to deal with the reality of building this team. This new guy Paulson is worth a lot less than Starbucks owner Howard Schultz. I can't wait to see the impoverished team of scrappy hard luck co-owners he finds and their one big trade per decade, like the Sonics.
It's made small market fans pretentious in their expectations. Wait till you experience a normal small town ownership group. You'll be howling for Paul, but he'll be dead.
It's a great theory, but the Blazers aren't for sale according to every single person in the organization. Love for that to happen though
The article doesn't say they're secretly for sale. It's just a catchy thread title. Canzano says he WISHES they were for sale.
An entire universe of sports stories to write a column about and Canzano goes with, "Let's make some stuff up about a hypothetical sale of the Blazers, despite the fact that that the owner has said they're not for sale, to somebody who says they aren't interested in buying the team anyway." Classic Canzano.
I'm all for the idea of a sale, but this is just so much Cazano fishing expedition ... "secret sale," that's priceless; whenever any of the principals in the column get asked about this, the round of denials can just be used for more column fodder a couple of weeks from now. Hopefully a kid develops cancer soon so JC can get back to writing heart-warming stories about it.
Gimme ten years and I'll have my first bil by then. I'll think of buying them if they're for sale then.
For those of you 'secretly' for it, what do you think would be the big differences between he and Paul, as majority owner? I don't know much about this guy.
Paul Allen @PaulGAllen Dwight & Canzano get played by unnamed sources & show true colors lobbying for a sale of @pdxtrailblazers. The team is not for sale period!
Canzano blatantly stirring the pot. It's a slow news day in the world of sports and this is a perfect example of that.
