{"id":340132,"date":"2025-10-14T08:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/340132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:27:29","slug":"raj-sports-drops-lawsuit-involving-trail-blazers-sale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/340132\/","title":{"rendered":"RAJ Sports Drops Lawsuit Involving Trail Blazers Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAJ Sports, a company run by the Bhatal family, has dropped its lawsuit<\/a> against the Cherng family, one of the minority investors in Tom Dundon\u2018s ownership group that has signed a purchase agreement<\/a> to buy the Trail Blazers, writes Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dundon and his group reportedly beat out a bid from RAJ Sports, which controls the Portland Thorns in the NWSL and the Portland Fire, the WNBA expansion team that will make its debut next season.<\/p>\n

According to Vorkunov, Dundon helped facilitate a resolution between the Bhatals and the Cherngs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to have reached a resolution out of court which we believe recognizes our position while also preserving the future of basketball in Portland,\u201d RAJ said in a statement (Twitter link<\/a> via Sean Highkin of The Rose Garden Report). \u201cWe look forward to working closely with the Blazers as the Fire join them at Moda Center next Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

RAJ Sports claimed in its lawsuit<\/a> that the Cherng family \u2014 which owns Panda Express \u2014 breached an exclusivity agreement and asked a judge to stop them from buying a stake in the Blazers. The lawsuit, which has been withdrawn \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d was aimed only at the Cherngs, not the Trail Blazers or the Dundon group.<\/p>\n

Now that the lawsuit has been dropped, the impending sale of the Blazers should proceed as normal, Vorkunov notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAJ Sports, a company run by the Bhatal family, has dropped its lawsuit against the Cherng family, one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[49501,7,601,6,687,471,3967,39242,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-340132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-andrew-cherng","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-tom-dundon","16":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115371576244466522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340132","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=340132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}