{"id":502316,"date":"2026-06-23T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=502316"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:00:24","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-hire-micah-nori-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/portland-trail-blazers-hire-micah-nori-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers hire Micah Nori as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers have officially named Micah Nori as their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>For the former Minnesota Timberwolves assistant, this will be his first opportunity to lead an NBA coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7377725\/2026\/06\/23\/micah-nori-trail-blazers-head-coach\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.sVA.nrM2.MGZ_-MIp8zRq\"> <em>The Athletic<\/em><\/a>, Nori has agreed to a one-year contract with team options for the following two seasons, an unusual structure for an NBA head coaching deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rip City, welcome our new head coach, Micah Nori! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XG0Rnc2ZjI\">pic.twitter.com\/XG0Rnc2ZjI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trailblazers\/status\/2069454591075475617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nori was among the finalists also for Chicago and Dallas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":502315,"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":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-502316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/HLgt9YGaQAAOgDc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502316","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502316"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=502316"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=502316"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=502316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}