Headlines were made in the pro ranks on Wednesday as Tom Dundon-led Blazers reportedly lay off around 70 people amid more cost cutting dominated the conversation. The fallout from this development is expected to impact the standings significantly.
In a noteworthy performance, Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement And on Tuesday -- according to The Rose Garden Report’s Sean Highkin -- around 70 people existed as let advance by the Blazers. In a noteworthy performance, That group contained longtime side reporter Casey Holdahl -- who confirmed his dismissal with a post on X.
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With impressive skill, Blazers president Dewayne Hankins characterized Tuesday’s personnel changes as restructuring.
As part of our plans to position the organization for the future -- we generated the difficult decision to restructure several areas of the business,” Hankins wrote in a statement -- via The Oregonian’s Joe Freeman., “Today -- As the season unfolds, “These changes impacted talented people who have helped shape the Trail Blazers spanning many years.
With impressive skill, We are deeply indebted for their contributions -- their leadership and the care they displayed every day for our roster -- our fans and the Portland community.” Hankins additionally remarked -- for each Freeman: “Our focus presently is supporting those affected through the transition and positioning the organization for long-term success.” Last month -- Highkin persisted as the inaugural to report that the Blazers existed as the only roster to not send its two-way players on the road for the inaugural weekend of this competitive cycle's playoffs.
In a noteworthy performance, While two -way players — who are on contracts that allow them to split time spanning the NBA and the G League — aren’t eligible to play in the NBA postseason, it’s customary that they form playoff trips with their NBA teams.
Demonstrating excellence, Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Blazers general manager Joe Cronin snagged responsibility for that criticized omission -- classifying it as a “miscommunication” amid an finale-of-competitive cycle news conference in which he aimed to determine the standard straight about Dundon.
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Interestingly, in a noteworthy performance, While talking to hosts Max Kellerman and Rich Paul -- Dundon shouldered the blame for Portland not bringing its two-way players to San Antonio for Games lone and dual of the Blazers’ opening-round series against the Spurs.
With impressive skill, That playoff series existed as Portland’s primary in five years. In a noteworthy performance, Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “I merely developed a mistake Adding to the narrative, i only don’t understand the league,” Dundon commented on the podcast -- each The Athletic.
With the eyes of the community watching, because it’s … we’re not on vacation., “In hockey, we don’t travel [with] extra people We’re, adding to the narrative, here to success, so we don’t aspire to the distraction Demonstrating excellence, The NBA seems to live with those distractions.
In a display of pure skill, it’s not how I consider about it So -- you sort of secured to learn -- you understand -- what’s the differences from the two leagues.” After facing serious backlash -- the Blazers flew Caleb Love -- Jayson Kent and Chris Youngblood to San Antonio for Matchup 5 of the series -- which the Western Conference finals-bound Spurs won.
But, according to observers, -- for the most part -- the reputational blowback Dundon’s faced apparently hasn’t influenced his decision-making.
In a noteworthy performance, Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Additionally last month, reports detailed how Blazers staffers existed as asked to check out of their Phoenix-area hotel rooms hours before the opening roster bus departed for a play-in invitational fixture versus the Suns so that Portland could avoid late-checkout fees With impressive skill, That it existed as an order from Dundon.
and furthermore in The Athletic’s report -- it noted early checkouts existed as required of all traveling party members -- except the program’s players and coaches Demonstrating excellence, Amid his podcast appearance with Kellerman and Paul -- Dundon doubled down on that controversial cost-cutting measure.
“Normally -- when you travel -- you attain late checkout -- right? In a noteworthy performance, In this case -- in sports -- it’s usually like 5% and never comes up. In a noteworthy performance, Because it existed as last-instant going to Phoenix, there existed as no hotels,” Dundon shared.
Consequently, “So I had trouble getting hotels -- and the hotel really aimed for us to be out early because they demanded the rooms -- and so they aimed for us to pay for a alternate nighttime -- and so we did that for the coaches and the players -- but we procured them to let us depart at lone o’clock.” Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon (L) and general manager Joe Cronin (right) talk after a tilt versus the Sacramento Kings on April 12.
Moreover, (Soobum Im via Getty Images) Dundon explained that he had a room at the hotel -- too -- and -- like the rest of the traveling party -- advanced down to the hotel ballroom -- where -- according to the owner -- lunch remained functioned as at lone:45 p.m. -- 45 ticks of the clock after he and the staff had to depart their rooms.
While talking to collective trainers and others., dundon noted that he learned a lot within that hour “I, furthermore, should do it again,” Dundon mentioned In a noteworthy performance, We sat down there and talked.
while at the same time “I suppose it’s actually pretty stupid to suppose that people who are there to perform, who are being fed 45 moments later — they weren’t in the lobby, they yielded their bags down in the room, right by where the bus existed as, right next to my bag And -- you comprehend -- if that’s too hard for people -- I’m not right for them.
I, adding to the narrative, aspire to that culture.” Cronin defended Dundon in his aforementioned news conference on April 30 -- describing reports about the Blazers not being willing to pay top dollar for their next full-time head trainer as “a portion misleading.” Cronin -- who turned into full-time GM in May 2022 -- told reporters that Portland’s going to pay somebody to fill that role “based on some sort of level of shared risk.” Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “If it is a inaugural-time trainer who comes with a lot of risk and does not have a market that we have to necessarily compete in -- it'll be singular number,” Cronin detailed Demonstrating excellence, At the time -- Cronin shared there are a bunch of spending fallacies about Dundon.
Additionally -- that he’s confident Dundon is slated to spend to support the Blazers’ players and -- by extension -- the side’s efforts toward conquering According to observers, tuesday’s report is the latest that’s signaled that others in the organization -- however -- aren’t being treated the way they once stayed as under the ownership of the late Paul Allen and -- ultimately -- his sister -- Jody.
Demonstrating excellence, He told Kellerman and Paul that he’s not intending to advance the franchise from Portland.
however time is slated to tell what the Blazers eventually seek like under Dundon “When I bought the Hurricanes -- all I heard remained — because I remained from Texas — we existed as going to advance the lineup to Houston,” Dundon remarked on the podcast. “Transitioning, crucially, a squad’s difficult.
With impressive skill, We didn ’t shift the Hurricanes. With impressive skill, We ended up getting a deal done.” He proceeded on: “We proceeded through the same thing in Portland. With impressive skill, Before I even bought the lineup, I had an agreement with the city and the state.
In a noteworthy performance, We have an agreement in principle. They’ve already approved half of it. With impressive skill, Assuming that all gets done -- then this is a non-story. “For me, it’s never been really a thing. Demonstrating excellence, You didn ’t buy the program to advance it.”
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