What is all this dislike to hate for the new owner ??
Rumors are just that and some of you are acting like it's the gospel
Is this DumDum thing just something silly at least for now until he proves these rumors wrong ?
I am curious cause I am getting kind of tired of it but if it's really just for fun / silly type thing then whatever.
this is a sports message board....posters like to post about things happening with the Blazers. Some posters like to post about posters' posts while virtue-signalling. Some posters like making wisecracks but I'm not saying who
Blazers got a new owner a month ago. He's taken several actions in that month that have all gone a single direction toward cost reductions, aka pinching pennies. There have also been rumors about a coaching search that was based upon finding a discount coach. That fits with the direction all the new owner's moves have been headed. To this point, that's all we have to discuss and speculate about Dundon's short tenure with the Blazers
yeah, we have all the chatter about what he did for his NHL team; but most of us are aware that what works in the NHL may not work in the NBA. And most of us are well aware that Dundon made his fortune as the owner of a predatory sub-prime auto loan company that got sued by several states. And that Dundon exited that company with a 700M payout. And he's used that fortune to leverage into an ownership stake of Top Golf, the NHL, and now the NBA:
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Tom Dundon is a Dallas-based billionaire investor and a major figure behind the growth of Topgolf, serving as a key early investor and former board member. He held a significant stake in Topgolf and helped it merge with Callaway Golf in 2021 to form Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp (NYSE: MODG), with his investment firm continuing to be involved before major stakes were sold in 2025. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key details of Tom Dundon's involvement in Topgolf:
- Key Investor: Dundon was a pivotal investor in Topgolf prior to his purchase of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes.
- Board Involvement: He was a member of the Topgolf Board of Directors from 2011 until March 2021 and continued on the board of the merged Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. until 2023.
- Investment Focus: Dundon focuses on sports, entertainment, and distressed assets, and his firm, Dundon Capital Partners, saw significant growth in Topgolf’s value as it expanded to over 80 locations.
- Sale of Stakes: By November 2025, Topgolf announced a deal to sell a 60 percent stake in its operations to private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners LP, a move following a period where Topgolf saw revenue decline amid high inflation. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Dundon is currently better known as the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, majority owner of the PPA Tour (pickleball), and a significant investor in other sports ventures. [1, 2]"
maybe he's found his passion in sports; that's entirely possible. But given how he established his fortune, it's also possible that he see sports and sports entertainment as ripe areas for major appreciation of value and a maximum return on investment. That 2nd possibility certainly fits the actions he's taken in his first month as the Blazer owner. Dundon is a wheeler-dealer; he uses leverage, sometimes in a predatory fashion. He invests in companies, cuts costs, mines value, and times exits from those companies for massive pay-outs. He's shark; maybe that's what the Blazers need, maybe it's not, but if there's blood in the water...watch out
certainly, a 'wait and see' approach to Dundon is a valid position to take. But since all of us will wait, and all of us will see, that's kind of a hollow argument. We're all waiting now, but what we've seen so far has all gone one direction and that's what there is so far to yap about
