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Where will Tom Dundon move the Trail Blazers? Probably nowhere
['Neil Demause']
Field of Schemes
The Portland Trail Blazers arena dispute so far in a nutshell: Tom Dundon, owner of the Carolina Hurricanes and past purveyor of predatory lending car loans, bought the Blazers from the estate of the late Paul Allen for $4.25 billion.
But the sports media has lately zoomed in on only one piece of it: Oh shit, where are the Blazers going to move?
Two writers for The Athletic, after breaking down the basics of the arena renovation funding dispute, launched into a discussion of places the Blazers could move.
), Austin (too close to the ), Nashville (too close to the ), or Kansas City (a good bit smaller media market than Portland).
Fox 2 in St. Louis asks if the Blazers could move to St. Louis, noting that while “it’s unclear how strongly the Trailblazers would consider St. Louis as a possible relocation destination, and how much St. Louis city officials are interested,” one of the Blazers’ minority owners is from St. Louis, so it’s “an intriguing possibility.”