What Does New Ownership Mean for the Portland Trail Blazers’ Future?

Brandon: It doesn’t matter how many pronouncements people make. It doesn’t matter how many non-binding statements are released. It doesn’t matter how many times a national sports outlet puts it in the headline that the team is staying in Portland. If there’s nothing binding, then there’s nothing binding. We don’t have to go any further than the Seattle Supersonics. Also, a more recent example, if not quite the same thing, we don’t have to go much further than Mark Cuban, the former majority owner of the Mavs, being like, ‘I’m gonna be around, everybody!‘ and then he was outta there. …

All of this is just to say, while I share some of your relief learning more details about Tom Dundon, I just don’t want to dismiss outright that people may still be concerned about the team potentially leaving because I don’t think that it’s set in stone, even if I think that is unlikely.