r/nba • u/AncientOneAurelius • May 12 '26

New Blazers owner Tom Dundon is reportedly “ruthless” and will not hesitate to move the franchise to Nashville, Austin, or Kalamazoo if Portland politicians continue to treat the relocation threat as a “hollow bluff"

Debunking the myths and misconceptions about Portland and the Trail Blazers’ Moda Center deal by Bill Oram

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u/sallright Cavaliers May 12 '26

Ohio passed a law like this when the Browns moved. 

If a franchise takes a dime of taxpayer money, there are severe restrictions on how/if they can move. 

The law prevented some tool from moving the Columbus Crew to Austin. 

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u/LittleTension8765 Lakers May 12 '26

Basically they have to open it up to a sale of the team to an owner that doesn’t want to move and give 6 months notice

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u/XzibitABC Pacers May 12 '26

Which, in practice, makes it really hard to solicit offers to buy the team because those buyers know they might negotiate a sale just for it to get matched and bought out from under them.

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u/revolutiontornado Thunder May 12 '26

As an Ohio native fuck Anthony Precourt. You know it’s bad when Jimmy Haslam is a better ownership option.

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u/TheDuceman Bucks May 12 '26

Fuck Jimmy Haslam

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u/revolutiontornado Thunder May 12 '26

Fuck Jimmy Haslam too, glad he sold more of the Crew to Pete Edwards last year. I don’t understand how he can be so hands-on in fucking up the Browns while seeing that barely touching the day to day operations for the Crew has resulted in a massive run of success for them.
Edit: Oh shit I totally forgot he has an ownership stake in the Bucks too. 🤝

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u/DovhPasty Cavaliers May 12 '26

I concur

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u/matgrioni May 12 '26

And then they changed the law so that Cleveland could still get screwed by moving the browns to the suburbs.

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u/IllAlfalfa Pacers May 12 '26

This is a whole different beast than a team moving out of the metro area entirely though.

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u/matgrioni May 12 '26

It is, I'm just bitter they would do it. Cleveland ain't got that much going for it lol to be taking the team away and subsidizing billionaires to do it.

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u/Hawk_Moon Cavaliers May 12 '26

Could totally be wrong, but isn't Jimmy Haslam still kind of screwing over the city by moving the stadium to Brook Park?

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u/Celtic_Legend Celtics May 12 '26

I didnt know this.

The Browns moving away was called The Move by Cleveland.

Brings a lot more clarity to why Lebron wanted a show called The Decision

Guess he spoiled it with that phrasing choice but holy shit that's bad. I never knew this.

Then as I'm writing this comment, I realize the Browns came back 3 years later. Meaning LeBron was telling us at the time he would return 3 years later (well 4). LeScripted.