{"id":658825,"date":"2026-03-15T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:44:25","slug":"moda-center-renovations-should-breathe-life-into-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/658825\/","title":{"rendered":"Moda Center Renovations Should Breathe Life Into Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/trailblazers\/onsi\/news\/trade-idea-fixes-portland-trail-blazers-biggest-problem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking towards the future<\/a> as renovations for the Moda Center were approved by the Oregon Legislature earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>The news of these renovations erase any doubt from the Blazers relocating to a new city, which is a huge relief for Portland and the NBA. It is expected that the renovations will cost somewhere between $365-600 million. NBA commissioner Adam Silver visited Portland officials and spoke about the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48201543\/nba-adam-silver-visits-portland-bill-passes-fund-arena-renovations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renovations for the Moda Center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had great conversations with the governor and the mayor, and it&#8217;s been a bipartisan effort,&#8221; Silver said via the Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everyone in this community recognizes that, even in addition to the Trail Blazers and the Fire &#8212; and we can&#8217;t forget about the Fire, which are about to open this season &#8212; that these arenas are multiuse facilities, whether it&#8217;s conventions or trade shows, concerts, graduations, you name it. They&#8217;re part of the lifeblood of communities. So it&#8217;s not just for the Trail Blazers and the Fire. You need a state-of-the-art arena here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blazers Enter New Era With Moda Center Renovations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers are looking towards the future as renovations for the Moda Center were approved by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-658825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116230427876291349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658825","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=658825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}