Trail Blazers New Owner Bringing up Painful Memories for Sonics Fans

Sonics fans know the pain Portland is feeling now

Could Portland, like Seattle 18 years ago, lose its NBA team? The script is familiar: A new owner demands hundreds of millions in tax dollars, and the threat looms.

Trail Blazers new owner bringing up painful memories for Sonics fans

A local billionaire sells the beloved NBA team to an out-of-town owner. The new owner demands hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money for a renovated arena. The threat is implicit before it is explicit: Hand over the money or I will take my new basketball team and leave town. Groan if you've heard this before. The situation playing out in Portland, where the Trail Blazers' new owner has ...

When it comes to owning Trail Blazers, Tom Dundon needs to love it or list it

It is early in Act II of “Hamilton” that a cartoonishly evil and ornately adorned King George III saunters to the center of the stage, perplexed by the news that George Washington is “yielding his power and stepping away” after two terms as president.

What the Seattle Supersonics relocation can teach us about the Trail Blazers

Amidst the disagreements between Portland city officials and Trail Blazers management, Seattle Times reporter Tim Booth joins us to discuss what led the Supersonics to relocate from Seattle and how that relates to the issues Portland currently faces with the Blazers.