Recent content by Samuel

no, it's less lottery balls now! much simpler! /s in a sport where you're already (spurs) rewarded for (spurs) being lucky (spurs), now it's 'really' going to feel like that.

lots of unintended consequences in here. don't see this boosting the late-season TV product, or helping with load management and injury issues related to scheduling. (we're gonna get regular season national tv games with the thunder holding their starters out against the spurs again) how will...

come on, sure you do

(i've stated before here, I think the cost-cutting antics are a purposeful public display of, 'don't come to us for private investment in the area, we are a scrappy operation and already dropped 4.5B collectively just to buy the team' while the arena funding deal is being negotiated.)

while it's easy to say things like 'portland gonna portland', or 'sensitive soccer mom fanbase/media back at it!', I dont think this response is at all unique to portland at all, in a bigger market there would be way more media covering the team and thus more coverage of this type of minutae...

pinwheel empire eh the dundon pile-on has reached epic proportions.

I expected major reorg/shuffle this summer. doing it late in the season is the surprising part. but it's a useful message for him to send, I guess.

that's a question for oregon politicians, not me--I'm certainly not party to those conversations. tom's posture is certainly that oregonians should simply be happy they're not moving. no renovation announcement has been made yet though, and no lease has been signed. i'd imagine that the...

I had the SAME argument on social with someone about this today. san antonio is covered like they are on the broadcast because they have wemby and a logo people remember from the ginobili days, not because they're a large market. (it is wild how large of an area san antonio proper is! almost as...

yeah this strikes me as tom doing due diligence by putting public feelers out there and making tiago's agent fine with a low number.

It's very important right now that tom builds and reinforces a perception that this is a group of owners who will not spend private dollars on the arena or the area around the arena. these negotiations are playing out right now. so this is a pr narrative that is being used as a tool so that...

there have been these fake economic studies for years and every year there's a new one that furnishes ownership groups with fresh talking points. my issue has been dundon trying to move the negotiating deal zone from 'how much private money will public partners demand we contribute to the area...

dudley platforming jaynes at this point

I expect shenanigans. at minimum, much late-game tomfoolery.

after anthony edwards went from doubtful to playing and crushing it earlier this season I rarely pay attention to those injury reports anymore.