Michael C. Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I know Jeremy is wanting to play more, like many of the people that aren’t playing as much and I’m glad that he wants that. That’s the competitive mindset that you have to have to be successful in this league.”<\/p>\n
“As of right now, he has not been in the rotation and that’s a decision that I’ve made. I expect Jeremy to continue to come to work every day, bring your professionalism and be a great teammate. He’s done exactly that, and that’s what you have to do in his league. Sometimes your opportunities don’t always come from where you think they’ll come or when you think they’ll come.”<\/p>\n
Sochan didn’t play much with the Knicks either, averaging 6.7 minutes per game in the regular season. <\/p>\n
Now he gets a chance to carve out time in the Blazers’ rotation. Portland has some big changes ahead in 2026-27 with Damian Lillard returning from a torn Achilles that cost him in 2025-26 and Ja Morant now aboard following a trade with the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n
Portland is certainly on the rise, going 42-40 last season and earning the seventh seed in the Western Conference playoffs after a 36-46 mark the year before. Now Sochan is aboard as Portland looks to take another step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have signed free agent forward Jeremy Sochan to a one-year deal, per ESPN’s Shams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-838653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838653","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=838653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}