{"id":188030,"date":"2025-07-22T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/188030\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:42:17","slug":"trail-blazers-sign-promising-22-year-old-2022-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/188030\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers sign promising 22-year old\/2022 first-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trail Blazers\u00a0reunited with Damian Lillard last week, but he&#8217;s unlikely to play next season.<\/p>\n<p>They still need some added depth for their roster, which they were able to fix, signing one player to a deal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Trail Blazers sign young guard to roster<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1947674837704401145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN&#039;s Shams Charania announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania announced<\/a> Tuesday that the Trail Blazers signed Blake Wesley to a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley spent his first three seasons with the Spurs, after being drafted in the first round by San Antonio in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s moved around quite a bit recently, starting with when he got traded to the Wizards earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>After being acquired by the Wizards, Wesley was bought out, allowing him to become a free agent and sign with a new team.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/sacramento-kings\/news\/kings-re-sign-44-percent-three-point-shooter\/f271a00e99ebd608381c1259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kings re-sign 44 percent three-point shooter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kings re-sign 44 percent three-point shooter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He chose Portland, and since he&#8217;s still only 22 years old, he signed a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The hope for Wesley is that he can have a strong year and sign a better contract next offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley hasn&#8217;t been a standout player in his first few seasons, but in the right situation could blossom into more of an impact player role off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley averaged 11.8 minutes in 58 games during the 2024-25 NBA season, averaging 3.7 points, 2.0 assists and 0.6 steals.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trail Blazers\u00a0reunited with Damian Lillard last week, but he&#8217;s unlikely to play next season. They still need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,7008,601,125,6,687,471,3967,969,567,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-188030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blake-wesley","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-damian-lillard","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-portland","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","15":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-shams-charania","18":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114898596291167577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}