What now? Ownership, etc

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TBpup said:
My sincere apologies that I didn't purchase enough tickets to win the $1.6B so I could purchase the Blazers and keep them here in Portland FOR SURE. Now I might have to partner up with someone because the puny Powerball is only $750M.
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I spaced out and didn't buy a ticket for the Mega Millions jackpot, so I had to settle for a measly Powerball ticket, still lost, fuckin' bulshit, man.
 
I'm going to make a really crazy suggestion. Why don't we hold our horses until we have some actual information?
 
crandc said:
I'm going to make a really crazy suggestion. Why don't we hold our horses until we have some actual information?
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Cause it's a fan forum

Should we not talk about the draft until it happens?

The season until it happens?

Free agency until someone signs?
 
Bad analogy. Going into the draft we know who is in the pool and where the team is scheduled to pick. Going into the season we know the roster, coach and possibly schedule. Going into free agency we know the free agents and the team needs. I n this case we literally have no information so anything said is data free speculation.
 
What scares me more than anything is that we will get, not just a hands on owner, but an owner that meddles in things. Allen built this organization up so well that it can pretty much runs itself.

If we get somebody who doesn't trust Olshey enough to give him a grace period, we may be up shit creek without a paddle. I've had my problems with Olshey but he understands the lilitations of this market as well as anybody.

Allen was smart enough to keep things together when he first bought the Blazers and we went to two championship appearances. We need somebody with that kind of patience.
 
ripcityboy said:
What scares me more than anything is that we will get, not just a hands on owner, but an owner that meddles in things. Allen built this organization up so well that it can pretty much runs itself.

If we get somebody who doesn't trust Olshey enough to give him a grace period, we may be up shit creek without a paddle. I've had my problems with Olshey but he understands the lilitations of this market as well as anybody.

Allen was smart enough to keep things together when he first bought the Blazers and we went to two championship appearances. We need somebody with that kind of patience.
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Basically everyone hating on NO will get their wish unfortunately.
 
Driew said:
Basically everyone hating on NO will get their wish unfortunately.
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The quickest I can see Olshey getting the boot would be if a former player is part of the ownership group. That guy would want to control the day-to-day operations A.S.A.P and probably hire his "league buddies" in the process.
 
Ok, the Blazers and the Paul G Allen Arena as it should henceforth be known are worth $1.3 billion dollars. The population of Oregon is 4.134 million. If every Oregonian chipped in $313.78 we could buy the Blazers.
 
BigGameDamian said:
https://articles.oregonlive.com/spo...sf/2018/11/canzano_seahawks_donated_to_ch.amp

Canzano: Seahawks donated to charity? What happens with the Trail Blazers?
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A Whitsitt organized group makes a lot of sense with his former connection with the franchise. But Merritt Paulson.... I can't see unless he just plans to invest as a silent partner. Owning the Timbers/Thorns teams and operating them is his real passion. His company is in the middle of upgrading Providence Park and probably will soon be adding grass to it in rhe future. It's already a major project but adding grass is going to make it a bigger headache. Paulson may be too busy to make a bid for the Blazers. And why bother him? The Timbers already have a good shot at a second title.
 
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B) Chris McGowan, the CEO of Vulcan Sports, did not return a message seeking comment on the subject. But multiple NBA sources have told me in the last couple of weeks that they believe the Blazers will eventually be sold. The timeline for that sale would be in the 18-36-month window.
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This is what I found most informative in that article. 2-3 yrs. Right when all our contracts expire. So there's no need to dump salary now.
 
yuyuza1 said:
This is what I found most informative in that article. 2-3 yrs. Right when all our contracts expire. So there's no need to dump salary now.
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Which would also mean we won't be players in free agency or significant contract extensions.
 
Well, one franchise is worth probably 1.5-2.0 billion dollars, and the other isn't. That's probably why.
 
“A potential Paulson-Whitsitt partnership is interesting to me. You'd get the financial backing of a passionate local owner (Paulson) who has been extremely successful with his MLS team along with the NBA wisdom of Whitsitt's potential group. A caveat here is that Mike Golub, former NBA league office executive and Trail Blazers executive, is running the Timbers for Paulson. This option makes a lot of sense.”

Pretty interesting, I’d personally love a Merritt/Whitsitt combo. I wouldn’t think pulling together a group of investors with them heading it would be that tough, i mean Knight can’t throw in some scratch?

I also wonder how many minutes it would take Whitsitt to fire Neil?
 
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yuyuza1 said:
Anyone got this article?

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Yeah. Here you go.
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A new figure has emerged to lead the Trail Blazers in the wake of owner Paul Allen’s passing: his sister, Jody Allen.

The Athletic has learned that Ms. Allen has been decisive in ruling on a variety of major decisions for the team, which as of now, she has no intention of selling.

“Nothing is for sale right now,” said Chris McGowan, the Blazers president and CEO of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, which also includes the Seattle Seahawks. “We are operating business as usual and Neil and I are collaborating regularly with her on all major organizational decisions.”

The Blazers were presented with a minor trade earlier this season, during which Ms. Allen gave the go-ahead, but the deal never materialized. That exercise sheds light on what some are calling a seamless and fluid hierarchy within the Blazers, which was in doubt when Allen passed away on Oct. 15 from complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

On Oct. 16, two days before the season opened, Olshey was asked what would happen if the Blazers were presented with a trade.

“We will figure that out,” Olshey said. “Right now, our roster is set. We don’t have anything in the hopper. Obviously, before it was just an email to Paul and he kind of either ‘Yea or nayed’ things. Right now, we are just really trying to reconcile the loss of Paul. Whatever safeguards or whatever procedures are put into place, I mean, they will happen.

“But if the phone rang today and it was a huge deal, believe me there is enough advocates for the Trail Blazers who want to see us do well, that it would get done.”

The established line of power — which also includes Olshey and McGowan working with Bert Kolde, Allen’s right-hand man and director of the Blazers’ board — becomes even more important as Saturday marks the first red-letter date in the NBA season: the first day players who were signed in the summer can be traded.

“Jody has empowered me and Neil to do our jobs,” McGowan said. “She makes the final decisions, but there has been no handcuffs … she has been a quick decision maker.”

Both Olshey and Kolde declined to be interviewed for this story.

Ms. Allen on Oct. 25 was named the executor and trustee of Allen’s estate, which includes the Blazers and Seahawks. McGowan said he has read reports and heard rumblings that Ms. Allen is not in favor of keeping the Blazers, but he said that is “crazy talk and speculation.”

He said he shared with Ms. Allen a three-year business plan for the Blazers — a standard-operating practice — and added that the business of the Blazers is flourishing.

“We have a three-year plan, and I work with Jody on all business related decisions and Neil on the basketball side,” McGowan said.

When asked about trades, McGowan said it is business as usual.

“Neil has a good process for that,” McGowan said. “Everything is moving forward positively.”
 
Scalma said:
Yeah. Here you go.
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A new figure has emerged to lead the Trail Blazers in the wake of owner Paul Allen’s passing: his sister, Jody Allen.

The Athletic has learned that Ms. Allen has been decisive in ruling on a variety of major decisions for the team, which as of now, she has no intention of selling.

“Nothing is for sale right now,” said Chris McGowan, the Blazers president and CEO of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, which also includes the Seattle Seahawks. “We are operating business as usual and Neil and I are collaborating regularly with her on all major organizational decisions.”

The Blazers were presented with a minor trade earlier this season, during which Ms. Allen gave the go-ahead, but the deal never materialized. That exercise sheds light on what some are calling a seamless and fluid hierarchy within the Blazers, which was in doubt when Allen passed away on Oct. 15 from complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

On Oct. 16, two days before the season opened, Olshey was asked what would happen if the Blazers were presented with a trade.

“We will figure that out,” Olshey said. “Right now, our roster is set. We don’t have anything in the hopper. Obviously, before it was just an email to Paul and he kind of either ‘Yea or nayed’ things. Right now, we are just really trying to reconcile the loss of Paul. Whatever safeguards or whatever procedures are put into place, I mean, they will happen.

“But if the phone rang today and it was a huge deal, believe me there is enough advocates for the Trail Blazers who want to see us do well, that it would get done.”

The established line of power — which also includes Olshey and McGowan working with Bert Kolde, Allen’s right-hand man and director of the Blazers’ board — becomes even more important as Saturday marks the first red-letter date in the NBA season: the first day players who were signed in the summer can be traded.

“Jody has empowered me and Neil to do our jobs,” McGowan said. “She makes the final decisions, but there has been no handcuffs … she has been a quick decision maker.”

Both Olshey and Kolde declined to be interviewed for this story.

Ms. Allen on Oct. 25 was named the executor and trustee of Allen’s estate, which includes the Blazers and Seahawks. McGowan said he has read reports and heard rumblings that Ms. Allen is not in favor of keeping the Blazers, but he said that is “crazy talk and speculation.”

He said he shared with Ms. Allen a three-year business plan for the Blazers — a standard-operating practice — and added that the business of the Blazers is flourishing.

“We have a three-year plan, and I work with Jody on all business related decisions and Neil on the basketball side,” McGowan said.

When asked about trades, McGowan said it is business as usual.

“Neil has a good process for that,” McGowan said. “Everything is moving forward positively.”
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"Neil has a good process for that"? That's funny.
 
Scalma said:
Yeah. Here you go.
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A new figure has emerged to lead the Trail Blazers in the wake of owner Paul Allen’s passing: his sister, Jody Allen.

The Athletic has learned that Ms. Allen has been decisive in ruling on a variety of major decisions for the team, which as of now, she has no intention of selling.

“Nothing is for sale right now,” said Chris McGowan, the Blazers president and CEO of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, which also includes the Seattle Seahawks. “We are operating business as usual and Neil and I are collaborating regularly with her on all major organizational decisions.”

The Blazers were presented with a minor trade earlier this season, during which Ms. Allen gave the go-ahead, but the deal never materialized. That exercise sheds light on what some are calling a seamless and fluid hierarchy within the Blazers, which was in doubt when Allen passed away on Oct. 15 from complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

On Oct. 16, two days before the season opened, Olshey was asked what would happen if the Blazers were presented with a trade.

“We will figure that out,” Olshey said. “Right now, our roster is set. We don’t have anything in the hopper. Obviously, before it was just an email to Paul and he kind of either ‘Yea or nayed’ things. Right now, we are just really trying to reconcile the loss of Paul. Whatever safeguards or whatever procedures are put into place, I mean, they will happen.

“But if the phone rang today and it was a huge deal, believe me there is enough advocates for the Trail Blazers who want to see us do well, that it would get done.”

The established line of power — which also includes Olshey and McGowan working with Bert Kolde, Allen’s right-hand man and director of the Blazers’ board — becomes even more important as Saturday marks the first red-letter date in the NBA season: the first day players who were signed in the summer can be traded.

“Jody has empowered me and Neil to do our jobs,” McGowan said. “She makes the final decisions, but there has been no handcuffs … she has been a quick decision maker.”

Both Olshey and Kolde declined to be interviewed for this story.

Ms. Allen on Oct. 25 was named the executor and trustee of Allen’s estate, which includes the Blazers and Seahawks. McGowan said he has read reports and heard rumblings that Ms. Allen is not in favor of keeping the Blazers, but he said that is “crazy talk and speculation.”

He said he shared with Ms. Allen a three-year business plan for the Blazers — a standard-operating practice — and added that the business of the Blazers is flourishing.

“We have a three-year plan, and I work with Jody on all business related decisions and Neil on the basketball side,” McGowan said.

When asked about trades, McGowan said it is business as usual.

“Neil has a good process for that,” McGowan said. “Everything is moving forward positively.”
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I wonder what the minor trade was?
 
Olshey has a three year plan like a mechanic who keeps saying he "hasn't received the part for your car yet" and that he's "working on it."
 
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