Just weeks after Texas-based, shady car loan magnate Tom Dundon bought the Portland Trail Blazers, stories of his outrageous cost-cutting decisions quickly broke containment from the Pacific Northwest. Every national sports media outlet covered Dundon’s baffling measures to save himself a few bucks, which included making the team and staff wait hours in a hotel lobby to avoid late checkout fees, leaving part-time players behind in Portland while the team traveled to its playoff series in Texas, and angling to pay a potential new coach about 75 percent less than the going salary for other coaches around the NBA. (That potential coaching search would also ignore the opinions of the actual Blazers players, who have advocated for the team to hire interim head coach Tiago Splitter full-time.) Dundon has alienated himself from the team, city, and fans in record time.

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