u/DoveFood

I was looking at their Quarter season ticket packages (10 games) and frankly it seemed like at best I wasn’t getting any deal, at worst I was paying over what a typical ticket costs.

2 tickets in the third tier corner were about 60 bucks per game per person.

2 Tickets in the corner of the second tier were about $250 per person.

It seemed odd because you seem to be able to get better prices just buying on your favorite ticket app day of with the added bonus of having the flexibility of not being locked in to 10 specific games.

Am I missing anything? Anyone feel they are worth it?

Reminder: Blazers had the 11th pick. Traded back to 16 and added the Magic 2028 1st round pick (it was seen as one of the worst 2028 picks to get as ORL was coming off a really good year with a very young nucleus, however, it looks a bit better for us now but still not a great asset).

NOP traded their next year’s unprotected 1st and the 23rd pick of the 2025 draft for the 13th pick in 2025. It was immediately panned as one of the worst trades on draft night.

The Blazers inability to get in that trade is awful. I know they loved Yang and the word on the street was they couldn’t go below 17 as the Wolves wanted him too, but without hindsight of Yang not having a good rookie year, that NOP 2026 was too coveted to pass up and simply malpractice. Everyone thought NOP had a bottom 10 roster that relied upon an extremely unreliable Zion and they were in the West. No one saw them as playoff team.

I know some will say, “we don’t know it was offered”. Report after report, in the NBA and NFL drafts teams are aware of other teams that are interested in moving up. You talk around the league, you talk to reporters, you have a sense of the league. Also, NOP got little value, hard to imagine they didn’t reach out to the Blazers. Their infatuation with Yang was brutal to pass up that NOP in a draft class that everyone knew was loaded and one of the best, in terms of depth, in years.

NOP have roughly a 25% chance at a top-4 pick. A top-4 pick is a better asset than any player or future asset the blazers have, with Deni being the only other one worthy of a conversation. A 5-8 pick is likely the second best asset on the team.

I’m writing the post prior to the lottery.