{"id":569287,"date":"2026-01-29T21:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:12:14","slug":"scoot-henderson-close-to-injury-return-for-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569287\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoot Henderson Close to Injury Return for Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson has entered the final stretch of injury recovery, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/highkin\/status\/2016957080381350118?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">a report from Sean Highkin of the Rose Garden Report<\/a>. Henderson has been out for the entirety of the 2025-2026 season, missing all of the Blazers\u2019 48 games, due to a torn hamstring suffered in a preseason workout. Highkin does not provide an exact date for Henderson\u2019s return, but indicates that he has been cleared to participate in full-contact drills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During his sophomore campaign, Henderson posted averages of 12.7 points, 3 rebounds, and 5 assists on 41% shooting from the floor and 35% from three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers have spent most of their season without a true point guard in the lineup due to injuries to Henderson, veteran Jrue Holiday, and reserve Blake Wesley. Guard Damian Lillard is also sidelined for the season with a torn Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson has entered the final stretch of injury recovery, according to a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569288,"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-569287","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\/115980451480290387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569287","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=569287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}