Brandon Spragg

@YaronWeitzman So the same owners who voted on him becoming an owner, a mere few months ago, are saying this? Nah bro “Ownership level sources” are the key words here

Could Portland actually be on the verge of losing the Blazers? I spoke to multiple NBA ownership-level sources this week. Every one had the same take: Dundon is bluffing and simply trying to squeeze as much as he can out of the city of Portland. Or, as one said, "There's nowhere for him to go." For one, you can take Seattle and Vegas off the board. NBA owners want the expansion fees, expected to land in the $6-7 billion range. As one source put it to me, "Even if I liked Tom a lot, I like $200 million a lot more." As for other markets: even if you believe a place like Kansas City or Nashville is ready for an NBA team, the math doesn't check out for someone who approaches ownership the way Dundon does. He'd have to pay a relocation fee, then spend to renovate or build an arena in the new city, all in a market without the built-in fan base he already has in Portland. It'd be bad business. So why is Dundon being so aggressive and antagonistic toward Portland now? Especially when, as one source put it, "None of this was a secret. He bought Portland and knew it needed a new arena. It's not like he found an accounting error in the books." "My guess is because he knows that the second the NBA moves on Seattle and Vegas, he loses all his leverage," a different ownership source said. "He knows he's got a very tight window now to play this game and I guess he's going for it." That said, one line, from a third source who's dealt with plenty of owners and team sales, stuck with me. "If the plan was to come in and bully a bunch of politicians in Portland, well he clearly didn't do any research." So the good news for Blazers fans: Most people around the NBA think the team's remaining in Portland. The bad news is that it looks like Tom Dundon is going to be part of your lives for a long time.

@BlazerFreeman Man, that’s sad. Loved KC

Kevin Calabro tells me has decided to step away from Blazers broadcasting and will no longer call games for Portland. The team and its veteran play-by-play man had been in discussions on a new contract, but he called the offers "subprime" and he has decided to move on.

@thatguybg This is not a hot take

my hot take is that the entire AI app layer will get sucked into claude, cursor, codex, etc gigabrain coding agents live in the same place you do most/all of your work means most software & agents are a prompt or a marketplace install away

Excellent articulation that I haven’t been able to put my finger on…

@DougKennedy93 Thanks, ChatGPT

Your competitor isn’t smarter. He just hit publish while you were still editing.

@thepanta82 This works because it’s internal. This is the future

We just replaced a $288/year SaaS with an internal solution. 2-3 days of work for 1 dev.

@BlazersLead Can you provide sources?

Not-so-lost in all of this is how much of a greedy witch she is

@pmitu @Lakshman18ew After that?

@Lakshman18ew definitely 25k

24k followers 😎

@OrieanResearch What kind of question is this

if AI disappeared tomorrow, would you still have a functional business?

@AishwaryaDevv Sounds like AI is a mirror…

before AI, I had 3 unfinished projects after AI, I have 87 unfinished projects

@sickdotdev If i could have a human by my side 9-5 that i could talk to and build things with, i would like it a lot more than an agent. Oh well

Unpopular opinion check: Is anyone here actually happier working with an agent all day, or do you just tolerate it because it's faster?

@trailblazers How could he want to wear Trail Blazers gear when Tom Dundon is evil? Doesn’t even he care?

things you love to see 🤝 📸: Ja Morant

@AdamBartas You very likely will come back to stripe. It’s great for a lot of small reasons that other companies don’t get. Best of luck!

Looking to ditch Stripe What is everyone using for international invocing?

@coryalthoff If I tell you, then you know my anchor. 80 THOUSAND dollars

How much would someone need to offer you to sell your company tomorrow, without any negotiation?

@MayeIsKing_ Clip kings

deadass who watches ESPN/Pat Mcafee outside of the airport and gym

@travisstreet_ Idbwomzbgeijwbsvdio AI could never

guys. we can all immediately tell that your reply is ai.

@pmitu @nikitabier I will talk to you. I am not a brick wall

What it feels like: requesting @nikitabier for brillinat 𝕏 feature

OpenAI wants users to feel satisfied after using the product. Higher Satisfaction = Higher perceived value Which justifies increased spend by the user. The problem I have seen with people using ChatGPT is they don't have an objective when they start chatting. If they don't find it through the chat, they won't be satisfied. From my understanding, ChatGPT Work pushes to accomplish something - which is really just pushing you to feel satisfied.

Mark my words: OpenAI will either phase out regular ChatGPT or heavily restrict its usage. Their real priority is that Work nonsense. Every time I give ChatGPT a task, it immediately pushes me toward Work instead. The direction couldn’t be clearer.

One of the top minds in AI, writing about something he tried and works well for him. What if you, not one of the top minds in AI (no offense), just tried something and it worked well for you? We're used to having "right answers" in our world. Maybe with AI there isn't one... because the answers are unique to us. Try something and you can't fail

@pmitu It is viarl. Congrats!

This tweet is going to go viral because I'm using all the trendy words: - AI - Claude - Vibe coding - ChatGPT - MCP - Elon Musk - Multi-agent - 𝕏 - OpenAI - Fable - Opus - Codex - Cursor - Lovable - Agents - AGI - Models - Gemini - Grok - Perplexity - Replit - Bolt - RAG - Vector database - Context window - Prompt engineering - AI-native - Synthetic data - Fine-tuning - Inference - Reasoning model Please support this viral tweet