Trailblazers.com Podcast for September 24th

by Dave on Sep 24, 2009 4:23 PM PDT

Here's your weekly dose of the Trailblazers.com Podcast starring Gavin Dawson of 95.5 The Game, Casey Holdahl of The Center Court Blog and Dave from Blazersedge. This week we discuss media day, starting lineups, Jarron Collins, and the economics of billionaire owners.

You can download the .mp3 here or click on the Center Court Blog link above to stream it or (gasp!) subscribe on iTunes.

For those who want to know during (or after) the podcast:

A. The three division winners and the team with the best record remaining claim the top four playoff seeds in the conference. They are seeded by record. A division-winning team can be seeded no lower than fourth but they still can come in fourth if that "best record remaining" team has a better record.

B. Exact current figures are hard to track down (who knows what the recession has done to portfolios) but it's a pretty sure bet that at least a dozen NBA owners are billionaires or are close enough that the difference doesn't matter.

--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)

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Nice

should be a good one

Numerically Blazers Edge is #25

by Outlaw is Rejector on Sep 24, 2009 4:45 PM PDT reply actions

There are a lot of billionaires in the NBA among owners. Maybe someone has lost some net worth during the recession.

As of 2008
Lakers: Jerry Buss and Philip Anschutz, ca. $8 billion combined
Detroit: William Davidson, ca. $5 billion
Dallas: Mark Cuban, ca. $2.5 billion
Miami: Micky Arison, ca. $5 billion
Orlando: Richard DeVos, ca. $4 billion
Denver: Stanley Kroenke, ca. $3.5 billion
Portland: Paul Allen, ca. $15 billion
Indiana: Herb and Melvin Simon, ca. $4.5 billion combined
Minnesota: Glen Taylor, ca. $3.3 billion
Memphis: Michael Heisley, ca. $2 billion

Pretty sure the Maloofs (Kings) and Robert Johnson (Charlotte) are billionaires too. Someone else might be. Knicks, Sixers, Raptors, etc. also owned by billion-dollar-companies.

"I think he can still play" - Kevin Pritchard on Juwan Howard

by Norsktroll on Sep 24, 2009 6:26 PM PDT reply actions

Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert too

"I think he can still play" - Kevin Pritchard on Juwan Howard

by Norsktroll on Sep 24, 2009 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions

They probably all have,

like most of the rest of us. But they are all likely still billionaires, and are just as rich in their respective standings as the next one. If there was a Billionaire tracker wonder where they’d all be now?

by lethaldose on Sep 24, 2009 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions

on those nuggets

One missed point is that they probably got better by losing Dahntay Jones cuz they picked up Afflalo who’s probably better at both ends of the court at this point in their careers

by 8volumesthick on Sep 24, 2009 6:34 PM PDT reply actions

The Blazers need a scandal

I only feel like commenting on the who starts part.

My self talk is that it all builds around Roy and LA. Hopefully Oden beats out Przybilla simply because he was the number one pick. I don’t care about the other four guys, I just want them to fit with Roy and LA and at the end of the game, I want the five guys on the floor that will most likely lead to a win and one of them might be Rudy.

by tominhawaii on Sep 25, 2009 5:33 AM PDT reply actions