That might be the case but I doubt it very much. She cares about how much money it is making her. She has absolutely no attachment to the team or actually competing for a championship. Any thought more than that is pure delusion.
She shows up to a lot of games. I just think she's not been an owner in professional sports, I think Bert was involved at Vulcan a lot more than she was before Paul's passing and I think she rightfully knows she needs to take advice from those around her, unfortunately I think she's taking advice from the wrong people or specifically Bert. It's a bad situation for us because these people who are managing our team are just trust managers who don't have skin in the game and it shows. That doesn't mean she doesn't care, it means that owners who put their own money up to buy a team are just going to care more about the product they get for all of that money. Unfortunately no one managing the trust could possibly have anything at stake because they have no stake in our team. They might think pretending to own the team is fun but you're not going to see them behave like actual owners because they aren't.
This is my biggest problem with Jody. I don't know much about her outside of owning the team but she very clearly listens to the same people that caused problems when Paul listened to them. But Paul was much better about keeping them at bay. He had done it longer it was his personal team. He had a love for it that I don't think she has. The best thing she could do with this team is sell it to Phil Knight with the agreement that it stay in Portland in perpetuity and that it be run in a first class manner by basketball people.
Rumor is Paul had a deathbed-style request that she not sell to Phil specifically so it ain't gonna happen. Besides, he's going to die soon too, and then what will happen?
Yeah, that seems like that may well be the case. It just seems to fit. But I thought Phil's offer had a plan to keep the team local with, I believe, a trust to help make sure it would remain on sound financial footing.
rumor from where? The Vulcan HQ? pretty convenient rumor for them I've never heard of any feud between Knight and Allen
I've heard in the past that they didn't like each other and there was some bad blood. I don't recall where, but it was definitely in an article somewhere. Might have been the Oregonian... Not that that makes it true...
Kinda inevitable, really. I think Cronin is trying to emulate Sam Presti: super-cautious, stick with your coaches even when they seem pretty mediocre. Are people still booing Chauncey at home games?
