Wweek.com - Portland Must Confront the Real Danger of Losing the Blazers

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if the new owners want a new arena, it's going to be up to the City of Portland and what kind of financial backing they are willing to provide? Will voters grab the rebound and fast break a new package/bond in order to keep the team here?

 

The good news is Ron Wyden has assembled a team to explore how to keep the team in Portland along with Kevin Love and several other prominent Oregonians

 

and adding 0 teams is not the same as adding 2 teams and it's becoming apparent that expansion is on the back burner for a significant portion of the new 11 year media deal that starts this season....or at least that appears to be the current state of affairs

this guy does a pretty good job of summarizing the issues (and he doesn't really agree with your math about expansion fees):




also:

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/...t-compete-now-to-remain-rip-city-forever.html

 

Completely abandoning the PNW seems dumb. If expansion isn’t a thing for awhile they would also be pissing off all the Seattle fans(again) that have started following the Blazers.

 

I'm not sure that's a compelling argument for the NBA and it's owners

when the Sonics left Seattle in 2007-08, the estimated value of the NBA was 10-11B with 3.7B in revenue. Currently the estimated value is around 130B with 11-12B in revenue, and those revenue numbers are going to go way up






https://www.sportsvalue.com.br/en/n...024-total-valuation-reached-us-132-8-billion/