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“The amount of disrespect (toward Splitter) that’s going on is beyond description,” a league source said. “It’s like, every day a new name is coming up. It’s the most vicious thing I’ve encountered in 30-plus years.” Reports have said the Blazers have tried to low-ball offers to college coaches, as well as an offer to Splitter with a modest raise from his current salary of $850,000 as interim. However, multiple sources said Dundon has not made an offer to Splitter. “Tiago is going to be the leading candidate,” a team source said. “People ask: Why don’t we just give Tiago the job? That would be the easy thing to do. But ownership wouldn’t be doing the team or the fan base justice if other people weren’t interviewed. Let’s have a process.”

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