Even if you aren’t an NBA fan, this is HUGE news for the city at large. Season ticket sales SKYROCKETED after the announcement earlier this week that the Blazers get first pick in the NBA draft. Pundits say the young core of community-minded, positive-role-model, talented players who call the Rose Garden home may finally get that one missing piece to catapult the squad into the upper echelon of teams. The jump in sales means a boom for the economy at large, ESPECIALLY those businesses near the Rose Quarter. Managers are already planning how to best serve the predicted influx of fans come October. Rip City may very well return to Portland in just a few months. Go Blazers!!!
