Chris Mannix:
"It struck me when I've had some phone calls, mostly with league officials, just how much leverage Tom Dundon believes he has. The Blazers need or the city needs the Blazers more than he needs the city. It's struck me and a lot of league officials who are you know, I'm I'm speaking more to the league side that I am to anybody in Portland, just the exasperation on a league level with how this is going. And I think that was reflected in Adam Silver's comments in Vegas uh during Summer League where he just usually the cherry-eyed optimist about some of this stuff, Adam would usually say it's going to get done, we'll work it through some stuff. Like watching his kind of face kind of go blank and seeing him deadpan like you know, there's this is off track, I believe was his phrase was really revealing to me and and told me where the league thinks that that this situation is. And and Dundon clearly believes that he's got a lot of leverage here and he's going to get whatever deal he wants or else he's going to do what he wants or at least try to do what he wants."
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