Recent content by Samuel

Dudley is walking a fine line here. He has to proactively communicate that he’s fiscally conservative and tough in these negotiations to the rest of the state because he’s, you know, an actual retired blazers basketball player. Probably why he came out first with his commentary before all the...

good on the blazers for working quickly to get him on board last season. the rupert failure smarts a lot less with sidy coming on board. hopefully he can improve his rebounding. now--who will they grab on a 2way?

And it’s like I said, not everyone is ‘pooping their pants’ on this one.

I feel like this whole discourse about tanking ignores the increased amount of injuries, stars missing games to load management and thus devaluing all sorts of regular season games. If the league cut 10-20 games from the schedule (which they’re very unlikely to do for obvious reasons) it would...

Hmm, I’m not sure it’s a massively ambiguous term: how would you interpret the line “on the table?” I interpret that line as ‘something that is scheduled to be discussed and potentially decided upon’. In this case, with the group he serves, the owners. Silver said they have discussed expansion...

the verbatim quote is ‘it’s not on the table right now.’ The premise of the entire press conference is a state of the union about what the owners are going to discuss in their march meeting. They’re going to talk about expansion and review research about that. Relocation is not something they...

some scuttlebutt circulating that Memphis might move to Nashville at some point. also can we stop conflating thoughtful concern with ‘fear-mongering’ etc. silver said relocation is not on the docket for the march meeting. that’s all he said. He’s a lawyer, that is a singular statement about a...

I think it's fair to wait on Dundon crew arena commitments until he actually takes over. but yea, not expecting much.

ARod wants a new arena too! Free! https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/11/timberwolves-and-lynx-coowner-says-he-wants-a-new-stadium-in-minneapolis

Oopsie--Calgary Arena numbers snafu. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/city-arena-csec-ticket-tax-1.7496734

it seems like the cherngs could certainly do it (mixed use development)I they've done it in vegas already.

It's a city-owned arena. I think the city/state making the first move, public good faith effort makes sense as the sale closes. Then it's in the Dundon group's court to come to the table with a 20-40% portion. The challenge there is that Dundon would have to see that neighborhood as something...

Seems like Oram is trying to get Dundon's group to make a public comment in good faith.

I'll take serviceable/positive rotation player for starters.

I’m not sure why people keep bringing up Climate Pledge as a comp—the city provided the land, the bones of the building and the roof; the rest was a down-to-the-studs privately-funded remodel that cost over $1B. It’s already different because it appears Dundon is looking for the...