{"id":608902,"date":"2026-02-18T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/608902\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:34:34","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-front-office-rises-the-ranks-in-cbs-power-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/608902\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers Front Office Rises the Ranks in CBS Power Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Several of Joe Cronin\u2019s biggest moves are all looking great right now. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3149254\/deni-avdija\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Deni Avdija<\/a> trade? An enormous victory. He\u2019s an All-Star on one of the best contracts in the NBA. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1992810\/damian-lillard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Damian Lillard<\/a> trade? Superb, in hindsight. Those Milwaukee picks are some of the best owed draft picks in basketball. Even moves that looked a bit shaky over the summer, like the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1685257\/jrue-holiday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Jrue Holiday<\/a> trade, have mostly gone as planned. Holiday\u2019s age and contract are still a concern, and he missed a lot of time earlier in the season, but he\u2019s been spectacular when he\u2019s been available. It says quite a bit about the state of the Blazers that, even if<a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/the-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-latest-15b?utm_campaign=email-post&amp;r=3shtjf&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> reports indicated<\/a> that he was not interested, Portland was treated in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/blazers-nba-trade-interest-giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> some corners of the internet<\/a> as a reasonable suitor for Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several of Joe Cronin\u2019s biggest moves are all looking great right now. The Deni Avdija trade? An enormous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37787,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-608902","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-analysis","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\/116088830094790150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608902","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=608902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}