What now? Ownership, etc

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  1. RonBrewer

    RonBrewer Well-Known Member

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    I think that the team will stay in Portland but if it is sold and relocated, I hope the name stays. Much like the Browns Legacy.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    If we lose this franchise, we won't ever get a new one. So that would be kind of pointless.
     
    ripcityboy, Oct 16, 2018
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    Then the PNW could have 2 cities with Uniforms, Championship Trophies, and no TEAM. Sweet.
     
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    We aren’t losing the Blazers, mostly cause it would take the entire Region out of any interest in the NBA. They also wouldn’t give Seattle a team right after they took us away. It would be another slap in the face to the Northwest.
     
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Oprah will save us.
     
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    Jacksonville Jaguars might split their home games between Jacksonville and London in a few years.

    The Portland & Beijing Blazers sure has a nice ring to it.
     
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    Not only does it sound sweet, but we’d be guaranteed five All-Star Game starters every year.
     
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    Its because the local politicians in Sacramento did everything they could to keep the kings.

    Im not sure Portland would havr that type of political leadership & support
     
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    The number/enthusiasm of fans in the arena will always be less important than TV ratings and corporate sponserships. This decision will be made by bean-counters in the NBA corporate offices and any argument not rooted in $$$ is (frankly) naive.
     
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    Yep, they had Kevin Johnson, we don't have anyone like that in this state.
     
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    They wouldn't.

    Besides, why would the league move the franchise from the mid-west to Cali, only to turn around and move it out of Cali? They already decided that the league's pocket book was best served by abandoning one part of the country in favor of 4 teams in California.
     
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    Why wouldn’t we? The senator of Oregon Ron Wyden is a huge Blazer fan. It’ll be ight trust me if Salt Lake City can have a team we’ll be fine lol
     
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    My goodness man, get it together. You are worrying and trying to get people worked up over nothing.
     
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    Why would TV ratings change moving a team to Vegas? They have no history so you are thinking what that someone in like Nebraska would watch a game just because the team moved from Portland to Vegas that they wouldn't otherwise watch? Portlanders watch other games too as national broadcasts get pretty good ratings here.

    The TV deals wouldn't really change much moving the team. In fact the NBA might lose viewership by pissing off yet another fan base. Vegas would go from no teams to three and we just assume they'd be some unstoppable force? During the latest recession Vegas was dying. Heck, they practically paid me to visit there a couple times. A few good years doesn't make them a booming city guaranteed to rocket the value of any incoming team. The Blazers have almost 50 years of proof that they support the team. You don't just throw that away.
     
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    London has enough hotel rooms for the All Star weekend, it will never work.

    How about the Portland and Paris (Texas) Blazers?
     
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    With CJ and Turner's shoe endorsement deals, they've been Li-ning that direction for a couple years now... :drumroll:
     
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