ESPN Windhorst When the Allen estate sold the team they did a very short lease Leases are usually 15-20 years they did a 5 year lease And theres almost no protection in the lease for the Blazers to leave Tom Dundon isnt interested in giving any money for this renovation It's a messy one

Bill 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

ESPN Brian Windhorst Its getting worse by the day The rhetoric between the politicians and the Trailblazers is deteriorating On Monday the Blazers board of Directors have a meeting It could be a declaration of an all out war

Adam Silver I would see it as a failure if we did not keep the team in Portland We need a state of the art arena By any objective measure the current building there in the bottom measure of any arena in the league

Bill Simmons on Adam Silver and Portland Last couple years it seems revenue money finance driven is the job and I don't know if that's the job In this case you should care about Portland This would be a really bad one

Windhorst last few years wolves have lost a ton of money target center renovated about 5yrs ago and it went from a bottom 5 arena to a bottom 5 arena they arent in a position to squeeze more money because they just had a public supported renovation So its a challenging economic situation

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'