New owner... Tom Dundon?

Sure, someone else often emerges. The point is, where was he drafted? At a spot where there was no reason to intentionally tank?

 

When I mentioned it could go for 5 billion people were scoffing at me not that they still aren’t but hey!!!! It’s back when Phil Knight made that lowball offer

 

Hurricanes are a pretty good NHL team. Maybe they should build an arena here and relocate them to Portland.

 

Except they just signed an agreement to play in their arena till 2040.

 

So technically if they lift the arena up with 100’s of helicopters and fly it all the way across the country?

 

or they could split half the Hurricane games here and half the Blazer games there

 

so....basically you're saying there are 50-60 "stars" in the nba. It's like watering down the term 'elite' till it has no meaning.

it's pretty obvious that when people say the Blazers have no stars they're talking about elite players; all NBA players

looking at the finals teams, OKC had the MVP in SGA and a secondary star in Williams. Indy had Haliburton and a secondary star in Siakam.

The year before, Boston had a 1st team all-NBA in Tatum and a secondary star in Jalen Brown; Dallas had a 1st team all-NBA in Doncic and a secondary star in Kyrie Irving. Irving and Brown have combined for 13 all-star games

the year before, Denver had Jokic; Miami had 2 secondary stars in Butler and Adebayo who have combined for 9 all-star games....and they only won 1 game in the finals

the year before that, the Warriors won with Curry beating the young Boston team. The year before that it was Giannis with secondary star, Khris Middleton (3 allstar games) beating the Suns with Devin Booker + CP3 (16 all-star games). The year before, Lebron and AD won

so no, the Blazers do NOT have any elite stars like Lebron or AD or Giannis or Curry or Doncic or Tatum or Haliburton or SGA. They don't even have any secondary stars like Siakam or Brown or Kyrie or Butler or Adebayo or Booker

Deni will be 25 next season and he just had his best season when he averaged 17-7-4. He was 77th in points; 45th in rebounds; and 83rd in assists. He had a 1.44 assist/turnover ratio...that's not very good. Among 'qualified' players he ranked 57th in PER, only 1/10th of a point better than Payton Pritchard. Some of the players with better marks than Deni were Scottie Barnes, Desmond Bane, Josh Giddey, Cam Johnson, Austin Reaves, Amen Thompson, Isaiah Hartenstein, & Onyeka Okongwu.

I'm not saying Deni won't become an all star. But he does have quite a ways to climb and it just doesn't seem realistic to peg his upside as a top-10 player

 

come on no more than bringing their stadium to Portland with. Bunch of helicopters lol

 

well, if he already has submitted the winning bid all that's left is a vote by other owners. The board of governors met in Vegas in early July around summer league. They usually have meetings several time a year and usually meet a month or so before the season starts.

the change of ownership may be a lot sooner than you think

 

If I paid 4 Billion for something no way I’m waiting a year. I’d be walking around the office that day asking everyone what the fuck they do here.

 

does anybody else think the phrasing of "agreed to buy for a valuation of over 4B" is pretty vague? I've never heard an actual sale been labeled that way. Maybe there's more details to be worked out...or somethin?

 

It's a synthesis of two pieces of information from two different sources. We know the team was bought, but not what the price paid was. But we do know the valuation of the team from other sources. So we get this monstrosity of journalistic malfeasance.

 

Isaac and Suke on The Fan are about to (4:00) interview someone who is affiliated with the Hurricanes to talk about our new owner.

 

Going to be interesting to see who the other owners are, besides the three mentioned?

 

Does that mean that we are playing on Ice? We would need to bring in George Gervin.