The Trail Blazers’ new owner is a cheapskate billionaire, but there could be a method to his madness

There’s always going to be an adjustment period when a team gets a new owner, but the Portland Trail Blazers are getting used to a bizarre new normal of austerity. Tom Dundon, who finalized his purchase of the team last month, is coming under scrutiny for extreme cost-cutting measures that cross well beyond saving money and into nonsensical cheapness.

Discussion of Dundon’s ownership practices came under fire this week following two reports from Sean Highkin of Rose Garden Report. The first stemmed from Dundon taking the weird approach of not having the Blazers’ two-way players travel for road playoff games. It made Portland the only team in the NBA to

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