Blazers layoffs hit about 70 Portland Trail Blazers employees in Oregon on Tuesday, with one remaining staffer claiming the team simply 'looked at a spreadsheet of salaries and cut the highest ones' as owner Tom Dundon pushes ahead with aggressive cost-cutting.
The NBA franchise has been under scrutiny since Dundon, who formally took over this year, began reshaping the club's off-court operation with a series of belt-tightening moves. Those early steps prompted unease among staff and fans, but nothing on the reported scale of this week's cull, which appears to mark the most severe trimming yet of the Blazers' business side.
