{"id":774380,"date":"2026-06-30T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/774380\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:27:13","slug":"blazers-rumors-holiday-morant-guards-clingan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/774380\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Rumors: Holiday, Morant, Guards, Clingan, Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite having a logjam at point guard after trading for Ja Morant<\/a>, the Trail Blazers have been signaling to rival teams that they plan to retain Jrue Holiday<\/a>, according to Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (Substack link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Stein and Fischer acknowledge that could be posturing, but Portland has been insistent that moving Holiday isn\u2019t in the team\u2019s current plans. The two-time All-Star would be the most logical potential outgoing salary in any type of significant trade after dealing away Jerami Grant<\/a>, whom the team had been trying to move for \u201cweeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Jason Quick of The Athletic<\/a>, the Blazers don\u2019t feel a sense of urgency to trade one of their four point guards \u2014 the others being Scoot Henderson<\/a> and Damian Lillard<\/a> \u2014 because they think they can all coexist. That belief stems from the team\u2019s plan to run Holiday at shooting guard and small forward, Quick writes.<\/p>\n

Still, additional moves seem likely due to the way the roster is currently constructed, Quick notes. Deni Avdija<\/a> was essentially the team\u2019s point forward and primary offensive initiator last season, and taking the ball out of his hands after a career year is an odd choice. Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> is another player in the backcourt mix.<\/p>\n

No matter what deals the Blazers make in the wake of the Morant trade, center Donovan Clingan<\/a> is unlikely to be included, according to Quick, who hears from a source that the 2024 lottery pick is \u201cessentially off limits\u201d in trade talks. The team considered acquiring Morant from Memphis for Grant and Kris Murray<\/a> to be a \u201cno-brainer\u201d decision, per Quick.<\/p>\n

Portland is looking for frontcourt help at center and power forward, in part because they\u2019re likely going to lose Robert Williams<\/a> in free agency, says Quick<\/a>, who hears the veteran big man is seeking a new deal worth around $15MM annually.<\/p>\n

Describing Morant as \u201cimpetuous and unreliable\u201d Bill Oram of The Oregonian<\/a> argues the trade was a disaster for the Blazers, comparing Morant\u2019s decision-making and attitude to the \u201cJail Blazers\u201d teams of the early 2000s. Oram questions what the team stands to benefit from the deal, as Morant appears to be a poor on- and off-court fit and has struggled to stay healthy in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having a logjam at point guard after trading for Ja Morant, the Trail Blazers have been signaling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,125,974,178,5673,2038,7212,7209,4425],"class_list":["post-774380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-damian-lillard","tag-donovan-clingan","tag-ja-morant","tag-jerami-grant","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kris-murray","tag-robert-williams","tag-scoot-henderson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116838350437155110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774380","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=774380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}