NBA Team Valuations and Home Mortgage Rates

Bill Simmons: "My fear for people in Portland is that he [Tom Dundon] looked at what the expansion number would be—which everybody's saying is between $7 billion and $8 billion—and he's like, 'Ahh, I can just steal Portland for $4.25 billion and just move them somewhere else.'"

My trip to Boston made me realize my hometown sucks

We did it!! Texas 268k 6.125%

We did it! NorCal $318k 5.8%

Bill Simmons: "One of the things I was fascinated by was, 'Why did they let this guy buy the team? Why let "El Cheapo" [Tom Dundon] get in there?' Apparently they only had two offers [for the Portland Trail Blazers sale] ... I just don't think they had a lot of people that wanted to buy in."

Bill Simmons: "It's just never worked [in New Orleans], and I am not sure they should have an NBA team. I feel way differently about Portland—even Memphis, which you mentioned earlier."

Top metro areas in the US without an NBA team: 1) Seattle, 2) Tampa, 3) San Diego.

[Clark] Klay Thompson would welcome a return to Los Angeles, where he spent part of his childhood and still owns a home.

37M. Small view to watch the world go by

We did it! SoCal $840k 6.375%

Wife and I Want to Leave Texas Because of Baby Boom

We did it! Maryland (close to DC), $618.5, 6.07%