{"id":547768,"date":"2026-01-20T00:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:06:17","slug":"two-blazers-earn-consideration-for-nba-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547768\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Blazers Earn Consideration for NBA Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No Deni Avdija? No problem. At least you wouldn\u2019t think so from the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 response to Avdija missing three of four games this week due to injury. Not only have the Blazers won three in a row, two of their players\u2014Shaedon Sharpe and Donovan Clingan\u2014earned consideration for NBA Player of the Week. When the star goes down, somebody else steps up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won Western Conference Player of the Week. Miami Heat big man Bam Adebayo took the honor for the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sharpe averaged 23.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 2.8 assists in 31 minutes per game over the four-game span under consideration for the award. Clingan averaged 13.8 points and 12.3 rebounds in 28.5 minutes per game while shooting 53% from the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Deni Avdija? No problem. At least you wouldn\u2019t think so from the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 response to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-547768","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\/115924512649593435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547768","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=547768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}