{"id":840332,"date":"2026-08-02T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840332\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:39:08","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-writer-gives-take-on-trail-blazers-owner-tom-dundon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840332\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Writer Gives Take on Trail Blazers Owner Tom Dundon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Billionaires do not need defending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Let\u2019s start with that, because if someone has several billion dollars they really couldn\u2019t care much about what you think about them. They just want to get your money, and they got those billions by getting your money. Sports team owner billionaires are perhaps a special level of the type that don\u2019t need defending\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u2026for the most part the NBA at large has ignored a pretty sizable chunk of people that know first hand what it\u2019s like to be involved with a team owned by Dundon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Yes\u2014Bill Simmons, Portland fans, and NBA fans, you need to actually talk to Hurricanes fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaires do not need defending. Let\u2019s start with that, because if someone has several billion dollars they really&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,47884,575,85],"class_list":["post-840332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blazers-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840332","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=840332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}