A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday ruled largely in favor of soon-to-be Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon in a messy legal dispute related to a professional football league that collapsed shortly after Dundon became its biggest investor.

In February 2019, Dundon was described as a savior for the struggling Alliance of American Football, a minor professional football league with an upcoming spring season. Just eight weeks later, it collapsed.

In the years since, the league’s employees, investors and vendors have battled in bankruptcy court, including over whether Dundon or his businesses were on the hook to the league’s creditors for $180 million.

Tuesday’s 199-page order by a Texas bankruptcy judge concluded they aren’t — a welcome development for Dundon and his co-investors, who ar

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