The official cap number for the Blazers; Luftman is history
Ben Golliver over at Blazers Edge is the hardest working man in show business. You need to get over there and read this story about the official salary cap numbers, which says Portland – if it renounces the two Euros — will have about $9.45 $8.9 million to spend. And then gobble up this story, which breaks the news that Tony Luftman will not return as Portland’s in-studio host for pre-game and halftime shows. Bob Akamian is expected to take over the on-camera host role.
NBA, Trail Blazers | Dwight Jaynes | July 7, 2009
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Yessss!
Tony Luftman was quite painful to watch. Anytime the game was covered by ESPN or TNT as well as Comcast the obvious choice was to stay away from the local coverage.
His zombie-smile sidekick and the whole “Tell them what they won” thing were excruciating. Then you switched back to Mr. Boring and Crazy Guggenheim at courtside and you realized, “I live in a really small market.” Save the gal who roamed the sidelines, but clean everybody else out.
two readers found a salary cap rule that slightly lowers the amount of capspace the blazers would have if the euros are renounced. the corrected number is: $8.91 million. my bad
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!!!! Ding dong the dork is gone!!! I mean, uh..awww, good luck Tony…riiiight…Come on Dwight, you don’t want his job?
I thought Luftman was better than Michael Holton, to be honest. I know Holton is a former player and all, but he was the one who seemed more uncomfortable under the lights….
They both seem like good guys. Maybe either of them could have (and Holton will be) good with a better wingman.
Oh that is great news……….Tony is not coming back……….Holton and him can both see the door………..I thought they must have known someone really high up to get that job…………we had to mute the sound when they came on……….need I say any more……….
Sadly, I won’t miss him. I am not so sure the way he presented was entirely his fault. I know they wanted to present a a family type entertainment, but he presented with such a flowery optimisim that often he just came across as…well fake.
I hope they totally re-think how they will present the next time around. We can handle real, trust us blazers
He will not be missed by anyone I know. Blazers pre-game and halftime is just painful to watch. Two dorks trying to be funny is not good television. Jack Bog is correct above when saying they reeked “Small market broadcast”. I am sure they are fine men, and great human beings, but the pairing of Michael Holton (who I hope goes someday as well) and Tony Luftman was like fingernails on a chalkboard. Everyone I know has made at least one or two comments on how not entertaining it was to watch them. Sounds like the Blazers got the word. I just hope the replacement isn’t worse. The old saying be careful what you wish for comes to mind right about now.
I’m surprised that a local broadcast can afford paying two guys to do the “back at the studio” segments anymore. I bet that in a few years they cut those roles completely and replace it with automated replays, local news broadcasts, recorded segments or other filler.
That’s a nice start. Now if they would dump that howling chunk of lard on the radio, I’d probably actually be able to listen to the games for more than 10 minutes.
Losing the mono-brow guy was a good start, don’t stop now Blazer Broadcasting, go ahead and lose Holton and the ditzy blonde….. It’s ok to act like a big market….
I wish I could lose Holton’s insurance agent junk mail that keeps showing up in my USPS mailbox.
It was like was a Blazer infomercial, that halftime show. Often it seemed like Luftman and Holton were out-of-sync with the flow of the game, and were only there to show us what the Blazers had done right — even if the team had done almost everything else wrong.
It was like a Blazer infomercial, that halftime show. Often it seemed like Luftman and Holton were out-of-sync with the flow of the game, and were only there to show us what the Blazers had done right — even if the team had done almost everything else wrong.
I can’t stand Holton’s deer in the headlight eyes!