{"id":713564,"date":"2026-04-19T00:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:21:18","slug":"tom-dundon-reportedly-lowballing-potential-blazers-coaching-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713564\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Dundon Reportedly Lowballing Potential Blazers Coaching Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s no reflection on the admirable job Tiago Splitter has done as Portland\u2019s interim coach since replacing Chauncey Billups before Game 2 of an 82-game season. The consistent word for weeks about new Blazers owner Tom Dundon is his apparent desire to pay no more than $1.5 million annually for a new head coach. That\u2019s well below the current NBA standard &#8230; even for a first-time head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">From $1 million to $1.5 million is actually the price range for the league\u2019s top assistant coaches, but Portland\u2019s desire to spend so modestly on a full-time replacement for Billups has been widely communicated and figures to have a significant impact on the process no matter how attractive an NBA head coaching position \u2014 there\u2019s only 30 in the world and all that \u2014 looks on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s no reflection on the admirable job Tiago Splitter has done as Portland\u2019s interim coach since replacing Chauncey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,37660],"class_list":{"0":"post-713564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116428515975080738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713564","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=713564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}