The Portland Trail Blazers shoved a broadcasting icon out the door to cut costs. Now they’re getting what they paid for| Bill Oram

What would Kevin Calabro be worth to Tom Dundon now? While the internet melts down over the morality and ethics of condemning someone based on his words as a teenager, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the Portland Trail Blazers did this entirely to themselves. They did not need to hire a new play-by-play guy at all. The organization had a legendary broadcaster in that venerated seat and they did what we now know to be S.O.P. at One Center Court. Tom Dundon’s Blazers turned the lights out on him. Going cheap, it turns out, has consequences. The…