Since taking over as the owner of the Portland Trail Blazers, Tom Dundon has made a multitude of cost-cutting moves, including not traveling Portland’s two-way players for the first two games of the postseason and pulling advanced scouts off of the road. He also laid off dozens of team employees earlier this week.
One particular Blazers legend has a bit of an issue with the way that Dundon has been running the organization.
Clyde Drexler Calls Out Tom Dundon for Frugal Approach to Ownership of Blazers
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While Clyde Drexler doesn’t have any issues with Dundon personally, he thinks that the new owner needs to be cognizant about how he treats individual players and the organization as a whole.
“I’ve talked to Tom once and he seemed like a nice guy. So I don’t really know him. But I know one thing. When you’re running a billion dollar industry, you can’t act like you don’t have any money. He bought the team for, what, $4 billion — 4.4 or something — whatever those numbers are?” Drexler said.
“I think the NBA has set a standard (for) every franchise. And the reason the best franchises are good, one, they value tradition. They take care of their players, they listen to the needs of their players. And usually they do whatever they can do to put themselves in a better competitive environment.”
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