Do you hear Blazers relocation talk anywhere outside of delusional Blazer fans? I've never heard it nationally. Maybe Jazz forums are filled with a bunch of similar delusional nuts, can't say I read many Jazz forums.
If they're not going to expand the league, would a team in Vegas be more profitable to the league than Portland?
Doesn't matter. Blazers aren't a bottom 5 NBA team. If a team moves to Vegas/Seattle it would be one doing poorly in its market (NOP, CHA, etc)
Again, the NBA admits they fucked up the Seattle situation, and that they should never have left it. So they compound it by then allowing Portland to move? They fought tooth and nail to keep the Kings in Sacramento, but apparently wouldn't fight to keep Portland here?
I agree. It might take some time, and hopefully a new owner that foots the bill for most of us (we are spoiled after all), but I don't think the NBA can rationalize moving a team with as strong of a fan base and has their shit together just to get a team in Seattle or Vegas again. Especially since it would tarnish the leagues repuation.
That all sounds very sensible and the most likely outcome is that our team just stays here. Let's all hope that's how it goes down.
Only a couple arenas older so yeah. If was well made at the time, but still old. I think the bigger issue is location. All the new arenas have stuff around them. Maybe the Blazers can buy that S waterfront site that some group bought recently. S waterfront seems small for a large outside stadium but NBA would be fine.
Yes, but the solution could be renovation instead of replacement. We have one of the if not the smallest jumbotron in the association
As I noted in prior post - location sucks with nothing around that area. No hotels either. That's been a blocker to Blazers getting all-star games, etc
We are gonna lose our NBA team and replace it with baseball aren't we? If we lose basketball and only have baseball and soccer in this town i'm gonna be sad.
Phil Knight has to be hearing all this. Hopefully he somehow gets involved in buying atleast a piece of the team and ensuring the team stays here forever
Only in age. But it is far better than quite a few newer arenas. This comment from Silver raised my eyebrows a bit. Feel like Adam needs to actually come to Moda on his own to verify; this came out of nowhere.
Honestly, if a person or group is rich enough to buy a sports team, they should be rich enough to build an arena or stadium. It's irritating when an owner pays crazy money for a team and then threatens to move unless they get free money from the government.
