Tualatin, Ore. ? Portland Trail Blazers president and general manager Steve Patterson abruptly resigned Thursday after owner Paul Allen refused to renew his contract.

The move came with the Trail Blazers in next-to-last place at 24-34, a season after they had the worst record in the NBA. Tod Leiweke, chief executive officer of the Seattle Seahawks, will take over while a full-time replacement is found. Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, also owns the Seahawks.

“I think we’ve had a lot of successes over the last three, four years, but maybe haven’t gotten as far as we wanted to on lot of things,” Patterson said. “Sometimes it’s better for somebody to take the ball the last 10 yards than somebody’s who’s taken it the first 90 yards.”