Nothing is final, but according to that Shams piece, there will be 4 preseason games. I think we are going to try and broadcast them all. Had our first Blazers Broadcasting production meeting and we are already starting to work on some production elements starting next week....... Just feels good to be back at it.
Yeah i really do not like the piped in crowd sounds. It's even worse with football. The few times i got to watch a game without the piped in noise was kind of nice. When you watch a live game with fans they react to the game. It ends up pretty obvious people are not shouting like that when play is stopped because someone lost their shoe. The normal part though is there should be games right now in my life and i should be planning parts of my week around watching a Blazer Game. 7 o'clock start has a certain system as opposed to a 5 pm start for a road game. Now i feel like i'm on a treadmill every day.
I have not grown accustomed to having every meeting on zoom or online. I know it saves lives and it does have a tendency to be easier because it reduces travel and all. But i just like face to face meetings and the group feeling. I'll put out the effort to have an in person meeting every time.
while reading the following out takes of a recent article from the athletic, try keep in mind the following. it seems incredible the money. Paul Allen purchased the Trail Blazers in 1988 for $70 million. His sister, Jody, assumed control of the team after his passing in 2018. There's been some speculation about what Jody might try to sell the team, but based on how well the team is increasing in value, why would she?Feb 11, 2020 https://theathletic.com/2183445/202...-boost-value-of-nba-teams/?source=weeklyemail The Jazz, along with an arena and a couple of minor-league teams, were sold for $1.6 billion in a deal expected to be approved by the league’s other owners with little debate. Those who specialize in team valuations and sales say the Jazz price falls in line with expectations and doesn’t reflect any pandemic discount. “The price seems fair and doesn’t reflect a COVID-19 discount. I think this is a positive for smaller market teams, and quite the accomplishment for the NBA. Ten years ago a lot of teams were sold for around $300 million. Now, that price has increased five-fold, despite the ups and downs of the U.S. economy,” said Rapkoch who is president of Addison, Texas-based Sports Value Consulting, LLC. “This is why we have been saying that sports is great for portfolio diversification.” The last time the Jazz changed hands was when Larry Miller, a Salt Lake City car dealership tycoon, bought the team in two transactions for a total of $26 million in 1985-86. He died in 2009. The Miller family is keeping a reported 20 percent stake in the team in the sale to Ryan Smith, a 42-year-old Utah native and self-professed lifelong Jazz diehard who became a billionaire as co-founder of online software company Qualtrics that he and others sold two years ago for $8 billion. What Miller paid for the Jazz to what his family sold them for 34 years later represents more than a 6,000-percent rate of increase on the investment – the sort of financial benefit realized mostly by owners who acquired their teams, large or small, prior to the massive influx of sports TV money that began in earnest in the 1990s. Miller’s deal for the Jazz also sets a new baseline for NBA team sales. “It’s established that no team in the NBA is going to sell for less than that,” Greenberg said.
yeah, the level of asset value and revenue is pretty amazing. Not only that, I'd think there are all kinds of tax benefits to owning a team that can shelter other parts of what these rich shits own. Kind of makes it hard to believe when owners start crying crocodile tears about going broke. as for Jody Allen and the Blazers, I have little clue what will happen. It might depend on the status of the estate transfer. I've read that could take several years. If the Blazers are worth 1.6-2 billion, I'm not sure whether that creates momentum to keep or to sell. I've also read speculation that JA is facing a pretty substantial estate tax bill and that she definitely want to keep the Seahawks. So, according to the speculation, selling the Blazers would be a big step in retiring her estate tax obligation. The tax on sale would be somewhere in the 20% range, so she could potentially clear 1.3-1.7 billion. I know how that feels though because I could sell my used Ford van for $3500 with almost no foundation at all, I'm guessing she was initially leaning toward selling the team. But she was front and center when the Blazers had the exciting run in the 2019 playoffs; and she was giddy lie everybody else when Dame shot out the heart of OKC from 37 feet. So, maybe that got her leaning the other direction. And maybe, this season tilted the lean back. In other words, I have no fucking clue
