{"id":712745,"date":"2026-04-17T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:16:03","slug":"blazers-take-pride-in-underdog-mentality-ahead-of-playoff-series-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712745\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Take Pride in Underdog Mentality Ahead of Playoff Series vs Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Portland Trail Blazers hit the practice floor in Tualatin one more time Friday ahead of their Saturday flight to San Antonio. They\u2019ll face the Spurs in Game 1 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs on Sunday, marking Portland\u2019s first Playoff appearance in five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following Friday\u2019s practice, Blazers interim head coach Tiago Splitter, forward Toumani Camara and center Robert Williams III chatted with reporters about the upcoming matchup with the West\u2019s second best team. Here are some quick insights from the media availability session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game 1 of the Blazers-Spurs series is set to tip off on Sunday at 6 p.m. Pacific in San Antonio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers hit the practice floor in Tualatin one more time Friday ahead of their Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,28794,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-712745","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-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-practice-report","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116422363411637031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712745","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=712745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}