{"id":756016,"date":"2026-06-23T23:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756016\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:16:25","slug":"one-year-deal-for-portland-coach-micah-nori-could-give-nfl-teams-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756016\/","title":{"rendered":"One-year deal for Portland coach Micah Nori could give NFL teams ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers have hired a new coach. Their deal could, you know, blaze a trail for other professional sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers have signed long-time Minnesota Timberwolves assistant Micah Nori to a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nba\/news\/trail-blazers-hire-minnesota-assistant-micah-nori-as-next-head-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one-year deal with a team option<\/a> for the next two seasons beyond that. It gives the team, now owned by Tom Dundon, the ability to make a year-to-year decision on Nori \u2014 and to owe him nothing if they decided not to continue the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether the approach will catch on, with other NBA teams or in other sports. NFL head-coaching contracts are typically fully guaranteed, with some coaches having non-guaranteed option years at the back end of their deals. <\/p>\n<p>For NFL coaches, one-year guarantees are incredibly rare. In 2014, Jets coach Rex Ryan agreed to a multi-year extension that guaranteed his pay <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/new-york\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10303937\/rex-ryan-coach-new-york-jets-reaches-agreement-contract-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">through 2015 only<\/a>. (Ryan was fired after the 2014 season.)<\/p>\n<p>With the supply of capable coaches far outweighing the demand, NFL teams could decide to offer deals that guarantee only the first year on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. If that ever happened, far more candidates for head-coaching jobs would take it rather than leave it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have hired a new coach. Their deal could, you know, blaze a trail for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-756016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}