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In a letter to the NBA Commissioner, Gov. Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson made it clear they want to see the Portland Trail Blazers stay in the city and the Moda Center renovated. “The Portland Trail Blazers are more than a part of our history — they are part of our future,” Kotek and Wilson wrote in a letter Tuesday. The letter marks the first significant public lobbying from two of Oregon’s most prominent politicians on the fate of the Blazers and the publicly-owned arena they call home.

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Gov. Kotek and Mayor Wilson wrote in their letter that the “Blazers are in our DNA, and at the center of what makes this community so special.’ “We fully support renovating the Moda Center to become a point of pride for the Blazers and for our city,” Kotek and Wilson wrote. “We are prepared to explore the public-private partnerships needed to make it happen.”

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