{"id":793816,"date":"2026-07-23T12:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/793816\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:39:20","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-tv-voice-calabro-leaving-broadcast-after-subprime-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/793816\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers TV voice Calabro leaving broadcast after \u2018subprime\u2019 contract offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers logo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/XZ73HH3IXJCS3BH4PI57K6XCIU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Calabro was\u202fhired in July 2016 to replace Mike Barrett and has \u201cserved as the face of the broadcast since.\u201d  Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Trail Blazers TV play-by-play broadcaster Kevin Calabro informed the organization Wednesday that \u201che is leaving the broadcast after receiving a \u2018subprime\u2019 contract extension offer.\u201d Calabro was\u202fhired in July 2016 to replace Mike Barrett and has \u201cserved as the face of the broadcast since.\u201d His contract expired on June 30 and \u201cthere was mutual interest between him and the Blazers for a reunion, perhaps even in a more limited role.\u201d Calabro \u201cmade it clear he\u2019s not ready to step away from the broadcast booth.\u201d He has \u201ca couple conversations set up for next week\u201d with NBA teams about play-by-play opportunities (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/blazers\/2026\/07\/kevin-calabro-leaves-trail-blazers-as-organization-overhauls-broadcasts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland OREGONIAN, 7\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calabro was\u202fhired in July 2016 to replace Mike Barrett and has \u201cserved as the face of the broadcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-793816","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\/116969338868185080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793816","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=793816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}