The chances our next owner is an eccentric billionaire with no restraint aren’t great.

Allen kept us relevant despite our small market status in so many years, if he goes, so does the best possibility of us winning a title in the next 20 years.

but on the other hand he hasn’t been great either, he’s in part responsible for the Jailblazers and the weird organizational moves in the last few years.

calling it now

Are these the same sources that are constantly sure progress is being made in the lockout negotiation. A friend of a friend who’s friends with my cousin charlie’s brother who has a friend who wants to remain anonymous is sure there’s a chance it could rain in the next 6 months.

Update: more and more people are talking about since I started talking about it, stay tuned to see if more people talk about it.

A move is unlikely (I’m glad they signed a long term arena contract), but multiple murmurs have to make you wonder about a change of ownership.

I also think this could be a health thing. Not that he’s in particularly poor health; more that he’d like to make sure his teams are sold to interested and engaging buyers, instead of being inherited and sold to a bidder who may not have Paul’s love of the teams.

Good bye Blazers..

What happens if Paul was to pass away? Who would control the team?

He was pretty sick recently. Cancer, I believe. It can be a tough thing to beat even if you are a billionaire. Health could certainly be a reason.

Maybe he wants to sell because small market bball can be a money pit. If he was a hard liner for a better deal, his cards are on the table, he wants this thing to start making money. If it doesnt he might want to recover some of his losses by selling. He is a billionaire, his money is obviously important.

Maybe, age. Hes getting older, and he knows he cant live forever.

Maybe family or his wife want him to get out of it.

Maybe he has inside info on 2012 and he wants to sell before he goes to his bunker under the polar ice caps.

I guess until he sells the team we will just never know.

This is concerning because I like PA as owner of the Blazers; however, if a new CBA is much friendlier to small market teams, besides making it more appealing to sell the team, wouldn’t it also make it more appealing to KEEP the team? After all, if a new CBA provides a new economic model and the Blazers can compete with larger markets, maybe an owner would be more likely to hold on to the team too.

But as another fan commented, if it is health related, I could see him selling both. New ownership would certainly be interesting, but IMO the Blazers are likely to be worse off.

Seems like Allen is only interested in owning this team when we are good. He was giving up just before we got Roy and Aldridge. It makes sense that he wants out now. I wish the city could take over like how the packers are owned by shareholders.

I’d really like to have another billionaire owner for this team that isn’t a moron in business.

Seahawks and them share the same resources [FO, stadium, etc.] and if the NFL team goes surely the other would need some serious reorg.

Geesh, can I selfishly ask why this rumor had to gain legs just now? I’ve been waiting for the return of the N.B.A. and hoping to just enjoy The Blazers and whatever season manifests. If Paul Allen isn’t motivated and involved and is simply looking to sell? Then it’s just going to be another angst filled question mark hanging over the franchise.

  But now that I’ve got the selfish, how this affects me part out of the way? I guess there really is only 2 ways to look at this.

  A: It’s a rumor and simply not true.
                Or
B: Paul Allen simply wasn’t going to be Blazer owner forever, whatever the underlying reasons or motivations. So you simply hope that for whatever reason he has decided to remove himself from the ownership of The Blazers, that the next incarnation of Ownership is decent.

   I sincerely hope the outcome is scenario A. Because I think finding decent ownership with commitment and resources to allow success in Portland would be challenging.

With the new CBA, competence will be much more important than money.