{"id":556320,"date":"2026-01-23T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/556320\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:36:21","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-vs-toronto-raptors-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/556320\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers vs. Toronto Raptors Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Last year, my colleague Will Guillory suggested the following \u201cfake\u201d trade to me in his effort to find a new home for Brandon Ingram: Toronto would receive Ingram for Bruce Brown, Kelly Olynyk and Indiana\u2019s 2026 first-round pick, which the Raptors got in the Pascal Siakam trade. I said the Raptors wouldn\u2019t do the trade, even though it was fair, because it would put them in a difficult economic position, correctly predicting the three-year, $120 million extension Ingram eventually signed with the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The two teams ended up making that trade, with an extra second-rounder going to the Pelicans. So, when I say that these fake trades, submitted by readers, will not happen, please remember that I can be hilariously, specifically incorrect about these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, my colleague Will Guillory suggested the following \u201cfake\u201d trade to me in his effort to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,56618,37790,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-556320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-game-previews","10":"tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-raptors","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-raptors","15":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115946572542532412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556320","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=556320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}