{"id":494504,"date":"2025-12-25T02:54:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/494504\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:54:26","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-20th-in-the-athletic-nba-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/494504\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers 20th in The Athletic NBA Power Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">20th &#8211; Portland Trail Blazers (12-16)<br \/>Last ranking: 20<br \/>In the last week: W vs SAC, W at SAC<br \/>Offensive rating: 113.5 (18th place)<br \/>Defensive rating: 116.4 (21st place)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Big Question, revisited: Can Shaedon Sharpe coexist with the rest of Portland\u2019s creators?<br \/>In a word, yes, Sharpe can fit in offensively. Sharpe got off to a slow start, and he\u2019s still a poor decision maker (2.5 assists, 3.0 turnovers per game) with an inconsistent jumper (32.6 percent 3s). But Sharpe is up to career bests 22.0 points and 5.0 free throws per game, and he has scored 20-plus points in a season-best four straight games. Portland mainly needs to get point guard Jrue Holiday back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th &#8211; Portland Trail Blazers (12-16)Last ranking: 20In the last week: W vs SAC, W at SACOffensive rating:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-494504","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-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115777953996632628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494504","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=494504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}