{"id":930696,"date":"2026-10-16T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:22:19","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-see-high-ranking-staffers-depart-for-roles-with-other-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930696\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers see high-ranking staffers depart for roles with other teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that some of the high-ranking Trail Blazers staffers who survived the layoffs<\/a> in May have \u201cfled for greener, or at least more stable, pastures,\u201d according to Eve Peyser of the PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL. It is \u201cunclear how all the negative press surrounding the Blazers<\/a>, and the generally bad vibes surrounding the team, are affecting the organization\u2019s ability to recruit top-tier front office talent.\u201d What is clear is that other teams have \u201cjumped at the opportunity to hire the Blazers\u2019 best and brightest.\u201d Earlier this month, former Blazers CRO Galen Davies jumped ship to the Cavaliers, becoming the team\u2019s EVP & chief commercial officer. Former Blazers Director of Corporate Communications Walt Scher, who worked closely with journalists, announced that he would join the Chiefs as its director of corporate communications and publicity. Former Blazers Guest Experience Snr Manager Rachelle Allison, who was with the organization for about four years, became the Seahawks\u2019 director of guest services in September. Former Blazers Dir\/Ticket Sales Heather Harris, who has been with the team since 2013, also \u201crecently announced that she had decided to leave,\u201d but has not made public the company or team she is joining. Former Blazers Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Christa Stout, who was laid off by the team in June, recently joined RAJ Sports, which owns the Portland Fire and Thorns, as its chief growth officer (PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL, 10\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that some of the high-ranking Trail Blazers staffers who survived the layoffs in May have \u201cfled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,1871,590,85,7642],"class_list":["post-930696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-leadership","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930696","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=930696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}