{"id":837550,"date":"2026-08-01T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837550\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:08:19","slug":"blazers-fans-excited-for-donovan-clingan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837550\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Fans Excited for Donovan Clingan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Portland Trail Blazers center Donovan Clingan is about to enter his third NBA season. If the instincts of Blazers fans are any indication, it\u2019s going to be an interesting one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When polled this week about which Trail Blazers center they were most excited about this year, 61% of respondents tabbed Clingan as their go-to big. Reserve center Robert Williams III was a distant second with 16% of the vote, while sophomore Yang Hansen earned 14%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Clingan earned Portland\u2019s starting job last season. He averaged 12.1 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks in 27.2 minutes per game over 77 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers center Donovan Clingan is about to enter his third NBA season. If the instincts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,189749,85],"class_list":["post-837550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837550","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=837550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}