{"id":813061,"date":"2026-07-20T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:56:09","slug":"nba-experts-asking-where-blazers-would-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813061\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Experts Asking Where Blazers Would Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Surely the league wouldn\u2019t let Dundon mess up a big expansion payday by grabbing turf in Seattle or Las Vegas. Some have suggested Austin or Nashville, but those two locales appear to be blocked off by the Spurs and Grizzlies, respectively, both of whom seem on track to play multiple \u201chome-ish\u201d games in those two cities in future seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Others note that Dundon might access Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C., the home arena of the NHL\u2019s Dundon-owned Carolina Hurricanes. However, having been in that building as recently as March, it surely would be an immediate contender for the NBA\u2019s worst. It\u2019s also the old-style \u201cparking lot in the middle of nowhere\u201d model. A recently begun $300 million remodel may improve things on the inside somewhat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">After that, the domestic pickings get slim. Kansas City? St. Louis? Bring the NBA back to Rochester or Tri-Cities? None of the places I\u2019ve mentioned appear obviously better than Portland \u2014 and a few seem demonstrably worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surely the league wouldn\u2019t let Dundon mess up a big expansion payday by grabbing turf in Seattle or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,47884,590,85],"class_list":["post-813061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}