{"id":711849,"date":"2026-04-16T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711849\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:58:08","slug":"why-the-portland-trail-blazers-wont-get-swept-by-the-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711849\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Portland Trail Blazers Won\u2019t Get Swept by the San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers are also young and new to all this, but \u2026 not two-time champion Jrue Holiday, who is already accustomed to being the team\u2019s vocal leader. Robert Williams III has been 20-games deep into the playoffs. This\u2019ll be Jerami Grant\u2019s fifth journey to the postseason. And Damian Lillard isn\u2019t playing, but he has played in 68 playoff games and will very much be on the plane and the bench and in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">And do you know who played in 65 playoff games and won a title? Blazers coach Tiago Splitter. The Blazers are young, and sometimes can get a little tight. They are about to enter basketball\u2019s finest and most intense finishing school, which will bode well for similar situations in the future. The learning is incredibly valuable, and sometimes painful. But on this team, I\u2019m guessing no small about of the learning will come from coworkers who have been there, and winning\u2014at least a game or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blazers are also young and new to all this, but \u2026 not two-time champion Jrue Holiday, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,37787,6,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-711849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-analysis","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sanantoniospurs","15":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116415214611832083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711849","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=711849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}