PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Scoot Henderson made his season debut for the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night after recovering from a torn left hamstring. <\/p>\n
Henderson was injured during an offseason workout in September. He was originally expected to miss four to six weeks, but he didn’t start non-contact basketball activities until December. He began full practice two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Henderson entered the game against the Memphis Grizzlies with 7:39 left in the first quarter to cheers from the home crowd. Blazers coach Tiago Splitter said before the game his minutes would be limited. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a big part of the vision that we had during the summer, and no we kind of get him super late in the season. He’s going to have a couple of games her to be his preseason,\u201d Splitter said before the game. <\/p>\n
Henderson, in his third NBA season, hadn’t played in a game since March 27, 2025. He averaged 13.3 points, 5.2 assists and 3.1 rebounds over his first two seasons. <\/p>\n
Henderson was expected to take on a greater role with Portland this season following the departure of Anfernee Simons, who was traded to the Boston Celtics in July in exchange for Jrue Holiday.<\/p>\n
The Blazers could use Henderson. The team had lost six straight going into the game against the game against the Grizzlies. <\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just trying to get back out there so we can get some more wins going into the second half of the season,\u201d Henderson told reporters earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Portland has been short-handed at guard. Holiday returned last month after missing 27 games with a right calf injury and Blake Wesley also recently returned after fracturing a bone in his right foot. <\/p>\n
Henderson said that he realizes it will take time to integrate with the team after missing so much time. <\/p>\n
\u201cI try not to think about that too much, but that is something that’s going to be a challenge, I think,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I’m the player that kind of just can be thrown in any type of the fire and understand the role, and understand what I bring to the table, and have confidence in that role. So my teammates believe in me and coming back, and that’s all I can ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henderson spent two years with the G League Ignite before he was selected with the third overall pick in the 2023 NBA draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Scoot Henderson made his season debut for the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,177,6,687,471,3967,1617,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-587681","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-memphis-grizzlies","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116027554877567770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587681","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=587681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}