Canzano says Blazers being prepared for auction

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  1. julius

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    The last expansion was 04, iirc, with the Bobcats, which always bugged me that the league saw how much Charlotte got hosed by Shin and promised them a franchise real soon...yet have continually hosed Seattle over going on 15 years now.

    You cannot convince me that Charlotte is a more important city to the NBA than Seattle is.
     
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    All cities on the East coast are more important.
     
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    The Blazers are also preparing for the Draft and Free Agency.

    Thanks John.
     
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    Hey hey hey, save that for the paywall TBpup! You're giving away the merchandise.
     
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    What about Tax season? Anyone knows?
     
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    Tax season? Wabbit season!
     
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    I know a couple unrelated people who've crossed paths with Ellison professionally and privately and both relayed stories of him being an entitled fuckwad.

    Many also saw the midseason moves by Portland as getting their finances in order for a sale, but this guy is not the sort I want to see leading my rooting interest.

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    I had heard somewhere that The Dutch Brothers Mafia could be a potential ownership group?
     
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    They certainly don’t care about moving the Raiders anyway.
     
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    Southern Oregon running the Blazers :bwpopcorn:
     
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    We know what that means, free meth when the Blazers score 100 points!
     
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    If a lesser city has it's ducks in a line with a stadium and politics and Seattle doesn't for whatever reasons, Seattle bears at least some of the blame for the outcome. There are advantages for the league adding Charlotte over Seattle... the PNW is a bear for teams to travel to/from. Sucks for us though, I'd love to see the Sonics happen again.

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    The NBA bent over backwards keeping the Kings in Sacramento, and they had a shittier arena.

    I'm not sure what advantages the NBA has over adding a team in Charlotte vs keeping one in Seattle or adding one in Seattle. Seattle's a bigger market, and had been an NBA team for longer than Charlotte had been.

    I get what you're saying, but I think the NBA fucked up the Seattle situation (not that Seattle is innocent of the whole thing. on a side note, Fuck Seattle*).







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    They will happen again, it's a profitable market for the league and they've already said they're going to do it and reporters have said that they've found information that says it's a forgone conclusion. Seattle and Vegas. They'll announce it when they're in negotiations for the new TV deals.
     
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    Digging back into the memory banks, I recall the owner (Clay Bennett) who bought the team from the Starbucks schmuck was a longtime friend of David Stern's. Why the Sonic's were moved probably was largely about those two asshats doing whatever they wanted... Seattle be damned.

    https://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/4701/reading-clay-bennett-s-e-mail

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    Adam Silver ain't perfect, and yes, David Stern did help bring the NBA out of the stone age, but fuck that guy.
     
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    Nobody, nobody thought the City of Seatlle would let their Sonics move. The politics of not finding a way to fund/refurb an arena allowed the Okie to pull up his tent and move. And the league approved it.
     
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