{"id":833991,"date":"2026-09-12T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/833991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:30:16","slug":"podcast-evaluating-how-trail-blazers-will-approach-guard-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/833991\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Evaluating how Trail Blazers Will Approach Guard Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaedon Sharpe is expected to be out for the foreseeable future, with a potential return sometime after the All-Star break. That leaves Damian Lillard, Ja Morant, Scoot Henderson and Jrue Holiday as the primary guards Portland will lean on early in the 2026-27 season. Deni Avdija also deserves to be included in that conversation. While he has the size of a forward, the ball is frequently in his hands, and his ability to initiate offense makes him another important piece of the Blazers\u2019 backcourt equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaedon Sharpe is expected to be out for the foreseeable future, with a potential return sometime after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-833991","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\/117259968473890299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833991","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=833991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}