{"id":497836,"date":"2026-05-22T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497836"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:35:59","slug":"blazers-tiago-splitter-finalist-for-head-coaching-job-alongside-jeff-van-gundy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/blazers-tiago-splitter-finalist-for-head-coaching-job-alongside-jeff-van-gundy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers, Tiago Splitter finalist for head coaching job alongside Jeff Van Gundy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1085\"><strong data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"995\">Tiago Splitter<\/strong> remains in the race to become the full-time head coach of the <strong data-start=\"1058\" data-end=\"1084\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1280\">According to <strong data-start=\"1100\" data-end=\"1114\">Marc Stein<\/strong>, the Blazers\u2019 interim coach is among the finalists for the job. Splitter had also drawn interest from the Chicago Bulls, but is now firmly back in Portland\u2019s search.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1485\">The other major name is <strong data-start=\"1306\" data-end=\"1324\">Jeff Van Gundy<\/strong>: according to Chris Haynes, the Blazers have requested permission from the Los Angeles Clippers to meet with the assistant coach, who has emerged as a finalist.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1647\">Portland is now moving toward a final decision after the interim period, with Splitter and Van Gundy among the leading candidates to coach the team next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiago Splitter remains in the race to become the full-time head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers<\/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-497836","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\/497836","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=497836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497836\/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=497836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497836"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497836"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497836"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}