The Trail Blazers’ 50-year anniversary season is temporarily on pause as the NBA goes on hiatus to slow the spread of COVID-19. During that break, Blazer’s Edge is counting down the top 100 Blazers: players, executives, and other influencers who made the franchise what it is today.
No. 9 | Paul Allen
Owner, 1988-2018
Place in History:
For the first 48 years of their existence between 1970-2018, the Portland Trail Blazers operated under two ownership regimes.
The first, captained by co-founder Larry Weinberg (initially with fellow investors Herman Sarkowsky and Robert Schmertz) carried Portland through the 1977 World Championship and most of the 1980’s.