It’s hard to know who’ll make a good NBA billionaire
But people will like working for Tom Dundon
The Portland Trail Blazers reportedly will be sold to Dallas-based investor Tom Dundon.
How should we feel about that?
It’s too soon to tell.
Once upon a time, David Stern clapped me on the back and praised me for writing a sunny article about the prospects of the Brooklyn Nets under incoming billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. His overreaction made me think I had missed something and indeed, time has been brutal to that take. I feel very differently now.
So I’m naturally skeptical of every billionaire, including Tom Dundon. But to get a sense of Dundon I just read several bios and listened to a 45-minute appearance Dundon made last year on the North Carolina-based David Glenn show. I wear two different hats here: Blazer fan and journalist.
As a Blazers fan, I came away feeling great, and not just because this means goodbye to Jody “penguin…
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