{"id":295675,"date":"2025-09-21T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/295675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:00:11","slug":"will-a-trail-blazer-make-all-defense-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/295675\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a Trail Blazer Make All-Defense This Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Portland Trail Blazers are hanging their hat as a defensive-minded team heading into the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That identity is propped up by the second half of last season, which saw Portland field the third-best defense in the Association over the final 41 games. It was also symbolized by defensive lynchpin Toumani Camara taking home All-Defensive Second Team honors in just his second season. Camara\u2019s win, plus the addition of Jrue Holiday this summer, means Portland will enter the season with four players who have garnered All-Defensive Team honors during their career: Camara (\u201825), Holiday (\u201818, \u201819, \u201821, \u201822, \u201823, \u201824), Matisse Thybulle (\u201921, \u201822) and Robert Williams III (\u201922).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Earlier this morning, the first installment in today\u2019s three-part community discussion question series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/gameday-coverage\/103281\/will-a-trail-blazer-win-most-improved-this-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:asked if a Blazer will win the Most Improved Player Award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">asked if a Blazer will win the Most Improved Player Award<\/a>. Here, the second question is all about defense: Will a Trail Blazer make an All-Defensive Team during the 2025-26 season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There\u2019s also a second level to this question if you\u2019re feeling really bullish about Portland\u2019s chances this season: Could two Blazers players make an All-Defensive Team? Or could a Blazer make the All-Defensive First Team? For one of those options to come true, it wouldn\u2019t take just sparkling individual performances, but the Blazers would likely need to take a serious leap as a team \u2014 something like finishing top six in the West, at least, and fielding a top-five defense in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here are the primary All-Defensive candidates on the roster, according to this writer: Camara, Holiday, Donovan Clingan and Matisse Thybulle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What do you think, Blazer\u2019s Edge community? Call your shot now and let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers are hanging their hat as a defensive-minded team heading into the 2025-26 season. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[13468,19510,7,601,48367,974,2038,7211,6,687,471,3967,13399,7140,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-295675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-all-defensive-first-team","9":"tag-all-defensive-team","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-blazers","12":"tag-blazers-players","13":"tag-donovan-clingan","14":"tag-jrue-holiday","15":"tag-matisse-thybulle","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-portland","18":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","19":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","20":"tag-robert-williams-iii","21":"tag-toumani-camara","22":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115244068071548561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295675","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=295675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}