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Paul Allen Auctions Painting for $43.8 Million

Blazers owner, Paul Allen, sold a 1953 Barnett Newman for how much?! For some perspective, $44 million is more than LaMarcus Aldridge, Nicolas Batum, Wesley Matthews, J.J. Hickson, Damian Lillard, Joel…Read More

Allen, Miller, and Cho: The Former Big Three

With the 24-hour news cycle being what it is, and with the NBA getting close to winnowing itself down to the best of the best, we might have one or two more days with the firing of Rich Cho dominating…Read More

Trail Blazers Owner Paul Allen Speaks

Yesterday, over on Blazers.com Mike Barrett did a video interview with Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen. Over at Blazersedge, Ben Golliver delivers a killer full transcript of the interview for those who…Read More

Why Cho is the right choice

Rich Cho is coming to the Portland Trail Blazers by way of Oklahoma City and Seattle, and I’m not sure the Blazers could have possibly done any better among the league’s available personnel.…Read More

Golliver: Rich Cho to be named GM

From Ben Golliver of Blazersedge on Twitter: Rich Cho will be announced today as Portland’s next General Manager. That’s what you call damage control. Cho was easily the best candidate of…Read More

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Quick: Pfund next GM on Blazers list

From the @blazersblog Twitter account: Next GM the Blazers will contact, former Heat GM Randy Pfund,…Read More

Berger: GM job Ferry’s to turn down

From Ken Berger of CBS Sports: The Trail Blazers’ GM position remains Danny Ferry’s job to turn…Read More

On Fairness, Blame and Blazers

Writing about the firing of Kevin Pritchard on draft night was not the fairest thing to do. The situation,…Read More

Some Perspective on KP

I don’t want to keep you here long. There is tons of masterful writing to be done about Kevin…Read More

Quick: Kevin Pritchard fired

The Oregonian’s Jason Quick with the bomb: Trail Blazers general manager has been fired by owner…Read More

KP on GM job: “May the best man win”

Kevin Pritchard spoke to the media today, and here’s the transcript from The Oregonian’s…Read More

Jaynes: The Unknown “Hat Guy”

A very nice little bit of reporting from Dwight Jaynes, who, it bears mentioning, stresses that you shouldn’t…Read More

Kevin Pritchard To-and-Fro

Coup: Where to begin, where to begin? I know, Rudy Fernandez, who will reportedly play for Real Madrid…Read More

Larry Miller speaks on Pritchard

The Blazers president finally came out and spoke to the media, though he didn’t say much of anything…Read More

Pritchard confirms home for sale

From Kerry Eggers of the Portland Tribune, confirming an earlier report from Ben Golliver of Blazersedge: Kevin…Read More

Blazers using headhunting firm to find Kevin Pritchard replacements

From Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski: The Portland Trail Blazers have empowered a private headhunting…Read More

Jason Quick on Kevin Pritchard

No reports of heavy evaluations going on from the Blazers practice facility today, but The Oregonian’s…Read More

Commissioner David Stern on the Blazers

NBA Commissioner David Stern held a press teleconference today and was asked a pair of questions about…Read More

Scott Howard Cooper on . . . You

Over at NBA.com, Scott Howard Cooper wrote a very nice perspective piece — complete with a thoughtful…Read More

Paul Allen Releases Statement

Brian T. Smith of The Columbian had it first. The first graph is about firing Tom Penn, then this: We…Read More