{"id":851677,"date":"2026-10-05T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851677\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:00:17","slug":"former-blazers-coach-sees-no-issues-with-lillard-morant-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851677\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Blazers Coach Sees No Issues with Lillard, Morant Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question,\u201d Carlesimo said. \u201cNot that Ja is not capable of adjusting, but Dame is such a smart player. Dame will figure it out. Dame will do whatever it takes for the two of them to excel. And Dame will go out of his way to make sure Ja gets back to being Ja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cDame\u2019s game is so good and he\u2019s so smart. He will do whatever he needs to do to still be Dame, and yet at the same time, there\u2019s no bad ego there with Dame. He will make sure things work out for Ja.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question,\u201d Carlesimo said. \u201cNot that Ja is not capable of adjusting, but Dame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-851677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117390319532626204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851677","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=851677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}