{"id":716084,"date":"2026-04-22T19:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716084\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:21:46","slug":"adam-silver-on-trail-blazers-give-tom-dundon-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716084\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Silver on Trail Blazers: Give Tom Dundon a Chance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon has been under fire for the last couple weeks, accused of being \u201ccheap\u201d due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/trail-blazers-analysis\/111652\/portland-trail-blazers-tom-dundon-cheap-owner-playoffs-shirst-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">various cost-cutting measures<\/a> (and attendant rumors) enacted since he assumed control of the team at the start of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In response to that line of questioning, Silver defended Dundon. You can see the excerpt in this video clip from X:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Among the things Silver said of Dundon:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSo he knows what he\u2019s doing and I think I like his mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a scrappy approach\u2026focusing on details, making people feel that everything matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe idea that this guy paid one of the highest prices for a professional sports team in history is being called \u2018cheap\u2019 makes absolutely no sense to me. This guy\u2019s a winner. He\u2019s won in everything he\u2019s ever been involved in, so let\u2019s give him an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">T-shirts or no, it appears that Portland\u2019s new owner has at least one highly-placed supporter in the league office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon has been under fire for the last couple weeks, accused of being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-716084","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-blazers-news","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\/116449990701266040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716084","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=716084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}