{"id":129268,"date":"2025-06-27T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129268\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:56:10","slug":"u-s-senator-ron-wyden-stands-firm-against-portland-trail-blazers-relocation-amid-potential-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/129268\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Ron Wyden stands firm against Portland Trail Blazers relocation amid potential sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said that no buyers will take the Trail Blazers out of town \u201cunless they stomp all over\u201d him \u201cin broad daylight,\u201d according to Tim Dickinson of ROLLING STONE. The Trail Blazers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/13\/estate-of-paul-allen-formally-puts-trail-blazers-up-for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/13\/estate-of-paul-allen-formally-puts-trail-blazers-up-for-sale\/\">are up for sale<\/a> at a moment when NBA franchises are \u201cfetching astonishing valuations.\u201d The Oregon public \u201cis antsy\u201d about a potential Blazers departure, and the state legislature introduced a resolution in recent days \u201chighlighting the team\u2019s economic importance to the local economy\u201d and \u201curging the NBA and the franchise \u2018to make a lasting commitment to keep the team based in Oregon for generations to come.\u2019\u201d Local fans have \u201ca fierce advocate in Wyden,\u201d a one-time collegiate basketball player who is \u201ca pal\u201d of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, in addition to being the \u201cpowerful ranking member\u201d of the Senate Finance Committee. Wyden doubled down and said, \u201cYou may think that\u2019s a little bit \u2018stark.\u2019 I think it\u2019s understated. We\u2019re keeping our team in Portland. Period\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/wyden-no-move-for-portland-trail-blazers-warning-allen-1235372429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ROLLING STONE, 6\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">BIG QUESTION MARK: In Portland, Aaron Fentress wrote the potential sale of the Blazers \u201cleaves a cloud of uncertainty over\u201d GM Joe Cronin and \u201ceveryone within the franchise.\u201d New ownership \u201ccan be unpredictable.\u201d Cronin said following the selection of this year\u2019s No. 16 overall pick Yang Hansen that his focus \u201cis not on his future.\u201d However, when asked if that potential reality has created more urgency to win next season, he \u201cdownplayed the idea.\u201d Cronin: \u201cI\u2019m just trying to do what\u2019s best for this basketball team, for our fans, for the city, just trying to build this team the right way. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re locked in on, is how do we get this team to the next step?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/blazers\/2025\/06\/blazers-gm-joe-cronin-not-allowing-pending-franchise-sale-to-impact-his-agenda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland OREGONIAN, 6\/26<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said that no buyers will take the Trail Blazers out of town \u201cunless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,7457,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-129268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-leadership","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114756150656660307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}