{"id":834455,"date":"2026-09-13T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/834455\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:49:32","slug":"the-blazers-are-kind-of-a-sinking-ship-they-are-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/834455\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Blazers are kind of a sinking ship. They are not \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Portland, this is the situation regarding Deni Avdija, who is coming off his first All-Star season with averages of 24.2 points, 6.9 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game on 46.2% shooting from the field. As much as he has thrived with the Trail Blazers, they are not in a position to extend his contract after the conclusion of his current deal, which only has two years and $24 million left. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;The Blazers are kind of a sinking ship. They are not setting themselves up to preserve the cap space they&#039;re gonna need to renegotiate and extend Deni Avdija,&quot; said insider Sam Quinn on the &#039;Third Apron&#039; podcast.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;The Blazers are kind of a sinking ship. They are not setting themselves up to preserve the cap space they&#039;re gonna need to renegotiate and extend Deni Avdija,\\&quot; said insider Sam Quinn on the &#039;Third Apron&#039; podcast.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yContentType&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/deni-avdija-projected-leave-trail-205106091.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Blazers are kind of a sinking ship. They are not setting themselves up to preserve the cap space they&#8217;re gonna need to renegotiate and extend Deni Avdija,&#8221; said insider Sam Quinn on the &#8216;Third Apron&#8217; podcast.<\/a> &#8220;Deni will make $11.875 million in 2027-28. The most he can get in a veteran extension is a 140% Year 1 raise, or $16.625 million. That&#8217;s MLE money. He&#8217;s not taking that. To pay him fairly, they&#8217;d need cap space to renegotiate and extend him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Portland, this is the situation regarding Deni Avdija, who is coming off his first All-Star season with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,980,6,687,471,3967,98875,4498,26825,1617],"class_list":["post-834455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-deni-avdija","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-sinking-ship","tag-the-blazers","tag-the-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117264053910956967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834455","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=834455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}