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Bill Simmons My fear for people in Portland is that he Tom Dundon looked at what the expansion number would bewhich everybody's saying is between 7 billion and 8 billionand he's like 'Ahh I can just steal Portland for 425 billion and just move them somewhere else'
1.9mBarkley after beating the 96 bulls mentions the bulls are going to walk through the regular season because theres alot of bad teams due to the expansion
1.3mAdam Silver We discussed ongoing negotiations with the Euro League We believe that NBA Europe would be strengthened by joining forces with the Euro League It doesn't have to happen but I think we would all be better off as a unified front in Europe in terms of the potential investors
2.0mAdam Silver answers Pablo Torre's question regarding the growing concern that wealthy individuals and entities are using the approval of the NBA to purchase credibility in the eyes of the public meaning fans and whether he plans on changing anything about the due diligence process
2.8mBill Simmons One of the things I was fascinated by was 'Why did they let this guy buy the team Why let El Cheapo Tom Dundon get in there' Apparently they only had two offers for the Portland Trail Blazers sale I just don't think they had a lot of people that wanted to buy in
33sMcMenamin on why a 3 PM game for Opening Night they're like we could sense the excitement for the NBA right now So let's experiment with this thing They talked with executives at NBC and it was kind of a joint decision that this is something we can turn into a celebration of the game
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