{"id":519392,"date":"2026-01-06T02:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:48:45","slug":"deni-avdija-wins-nba-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519392\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija Wins NBA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija has taken another step in confirming his burgeoning NBA stardom, winning <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbapr\/status\/2008274831117025466?s=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA Player of the Week<\/a> for the week spanning December 29th-January 4th. During that time Avdija averaged 26.8 points, 9.8 assists, and 8.3 rebounds while leading the Blazers to a 3-1 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Avdija, the Western Conference Player of the Week, joins Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey, the Eastern Conference representative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per the Blazers, Avdija is the 14th player in Trail Blazers history to win the honor, the first since Damian Lillard on February 6th, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija has taken another step in confirming his burgeoning NBA stardom, winning NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519393,"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-519392","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\/115845877222519634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519392","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=519392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}