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'

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

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

Bill Simmons It's just never worked in New Orleans and I am not sure they should have an NBA team I feel way differently about Portlandeven Memphis which you mentioned earlier

Daniel Marks Most teams have a full bench of playerscoaches and an additional back row with coachesstaff Portland has 1 row with 7 empty seats I took a quick look at all the non-lottery-pick teams this year and it's true displays the philosophy of the new owner Tom Dundon

Bill Simmons There's a lot of smoke billowing around Denver in general Some I believe some I don't believe Murray and Cam Johnson for Jaylen and Hauser which would save Denver ten million dollars this year

Bill Simmons Pod Simmons I think they're gonna trade Joel Embiid