Brian Berger from Sports Business Radio explains why he believes new owner Tom Dundon might relocate the Trail Blazers out of Portland.
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Is the Trail Blazers’ long-term future in Portland?
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I think he’s gonna do everything in his power to move them.
This seems to be Sonics 2.0, and I think he’s gonna say all the right things, and at the end of the day, he’s gonna come with a, a pretty cutthroat deal for the state and the city, and when they don’t make that deal, I think he’s gonna use that as his excuse to move the team.
And the way it works with at least NBA Board of Governors is when you sit around that table, other owners are not gonna stop you from doing what you wanna do, like relocating, because if they wanna do something in the future, they don’t want you to vote against them.
By the way, if he does relocate, there’s a relocation fee attached to that, so all the other teams in the NBA would make money from Dundon relocating to a Nashville, a San Diego, someplace like that