I spaced out and didn't buy a ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot, so I had to settle for a measly Powerball ticket, still lost, fuckin' bulshit, man.
I'm going to make a really crazy suggestion. Why don't we hold our horses until we have some actual information?
Cause it's a fan forum Should we not talk about the draft until it happens? The season until it happens? Free agency until someone signs?
Bad analogy. Going into the draft we know who is in the pool and where the team is scheduled to pick. Going into the season we know the roster, coach and possibly schedule. Going into free agency we know the free agents and the team needs. I n this case we literally have no information so anything said is data free speculation.
What scares me more than anything is that we will get, not just a hands on owner, but an owner that meddles in things. Allen built this organization up so well that it can pretty much runs itself. If we get somebody who doesn't trust Olshey enough to give him a grace period, we may be up shit creek without a paddle. I've had my problems with Olshey but he understands the lilitations of this market as well as anybody. Allen was smart enough to keep things together when he first bought the Blazers and we went to two championship appearances. We need somebody with that kind of patience.
The quickest I can see Olshey getting the boot would be if a former player is part of the ownership group. That guy would want to control the day-to-day operations A.S.A.P and probably hire his "league buddies" in the process.
https://articles.oregonlive.com/spo...sf/2018/11/canzano_seahawks_donated_to_ch.amp Canzano: Seahawks donated to charity? What happens with the Trail Blazers?
Ok, the Blazers and the Paul G Allen Arena as it should henceforth be known are worth $1.3 billion dollars. The population of Oregon is 4.134 million. If every Oregonian chipped in $313.78 we could buy the Blazers.
A Whitsitt organized group makes a lot of sense with his former connection with the franchise. But Merritt Paulson.... I can't see unless he just plans to invest as a silent partner. Owning the Timbers/Thorns teams and operating them is his real passion. His company is in the middle of upgrading Providence Park and probably will soon be adding grass to it in rhe future. It's already a major project but adding grass is going to make it a bigger headache. Paulson may be too busy to make a bid for the Blazers. And why bother him? The Timbers already have a good shot at a second title.
This is what I found most informative in that article. 2-3 yrs. Right when all our contracts expire. So there's no need to dump salary now.
https://www.blazersedge.com/2018/12...army-owner-merritt-paulson-trail-blazers-sale Canzano Suggests Timbers Owner Paulson Should Buy Trail Blazers If one franchise in town is successful, why not two?
Well, one franchise is worth probably 1.5-2.0 billion dollars, and the other isn't. That's probably why.
“A potential Paulson-Whitsitt partnership is interesting to me. You'd get the financial backing of a passionate local owner (Paulson) who has been extremely successful with his MLS team along with the NBA wisdom of Whitsitt's potential group. A caveat here is that Mike Golub, former NBA league office executive and Trail Blazers executive, is running the Timbers for Paulson. This option makes a lot of sense.” Pretty interesting, I’d personally love a Merritt/Whitsitt combo. I wouldn’t think pulling together a group of investors with them heading it would be that tough, i mean Knight can’t throw in some scratch? I also wonder how many minutes it would take Whitsitt to fire Neil?
