{"id":784625,"date":"2026-07-06T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784625\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:57:08","slug":"report-canadas-jay-triano-joins-trail-blazers-as-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784625\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Canada&#8217;s Jay Triano joins Trail Blazers as assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Triano is headed back to Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers hired the Canadian as an assistant coach, NBA insider Chris Haynes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/2074205216019505614\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Triano, 67, previously coached in Portland under Terry Stotts from 2012 to 2016, working alongside star guard Damian Lillard, who&#8217;s set to make a Trail Blazers return of his own next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tillsonburg, Ont., native spent last season with the Dallas Mavericks after three previous with the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Triano has coached in the NBA since joining the Toronto Raptors as an assistant in 2002, including two stints as head coach with the Raptors (2008-11) and Phoenix Suns (2017-18).<\/p>\n<p>He hired Trail Blazers head coach Micah Nori as an assistant while with the Raptors. Now, the roles are reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Triano was also the head coach of Canada&#8217;s men&#8217;s national team from 1998 to 2004, leading the team to the 2000 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Triano is headed back to Portland. The Trail Blazers hired the Canadian as an assistant coach, NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-784625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}