{"id":694737,"date":"2026-04-02T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:15:18","slug":"new-ownership-of-portland-trail-blazers-set-to-speak-about-teams-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694737\/","title":{"rendered":"New ownership of Portland Trail Blazers set to speak about team&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The new owners of the Portland Trail Blazers are set to speak Thursday, after the NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the team earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the governors board approved the sale of the Blazers to an investor group led by Tom Dundon.<\/p>\n<p>The Rip City Rising ownership group is set to speak on Thursday. You can watch the press conference below at 3 p.m. PT:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RIP CITY RISING PRESS CONFERENCE\" class=\"LivestreamEmbed_thumbnail__K7KfB\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/09fe4e0c-fa88-4dd8-8837-5f60e2c2223c-AP25255775712828.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Dundon said their goal is to build a team that can compete at the highest level, every single year.<\/p>\n<p>Dundon will serve as the Blazers\u2019 main governor. Marc Zahr, Stan Middleman, Andrew Cherng, and Sheel Tyle are listed as alternative governors.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, the sale will be a two-part deal with a price tag of $4.25 billion. The NBA said the transaction is expected to close this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The new owners of the Portland Trail Blazers are set to speak Thursday, after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-694737","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-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337425031603251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694737","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=694737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}