{"id":496080,"date":"2026-05-08T20:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496080"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:54:16","slug":"trail-blazers-interview-jared-dudley-for-head-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/trail-blazers-interview-jared-dudley-for-head-coaching-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers interview Jared Dudley and Ben Sullivan for head coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1464\">The <strong data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1278\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> are continuing their search for a new head coach. According to <strong data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1360\">Michael Scotto<\/strong>, the franchise interviewed <strong data-start=\"1388\" data-end=\"1404\">Jared Dudley<\/strong>, currently the lead assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1744\"><strong data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1482\">Ben Sullivan<\/strong> has also entered Portland\u2019s coaching search. The <strong data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1551\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> assistant interviewed for the Phoenix Suns job last summer and has worked under <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1645\">Ime Udoka<\/strong> with the Rockets and Celtics, <strong data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1692\">Joe Mazzulla<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1718\">Mike Budenholzer<\/strong> with the Bucks and Hawks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1961\">Sullivan also has a direct connection to the city, having played for the <strong data-start=\"1819\" data-end=\"1845\">University of Portland<\/strong>. Dudley brings 14 seasons of NBA playing experience and previous assistant coaching work with the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Michael Scotto, Portland interviewed Jared Dudley and Ben Sullivan as part of its head coaching search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":448815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-496080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Portland-Trail-Blazers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496080"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496080"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496080"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}