{"id":912947,"date":"2026-09-28T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912947\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:18:29","slug":"trail-blazers-media-day-damian-lillard-returns-as-ja-morant-joins-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912947\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers Media Day: Damian Lillard returns as Ja Morant joins roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers are hosting media day on Monday, with players and staff talking with reporters ahead of the NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>Media day offers the first real look at the team together before training camp.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest things we\u2019re looking for today is the return of Damian Lillard, who is back after missing last season with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rip City will also see the addition of Ja Morant to the roster this season, in exchange for players Jerami Grant and Kris Murray.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/sports\/trail-blazers\/ja-morant-embraces-fresh-start-in-portland-i-get-to-show-the-fans-a-different-ja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ja Morant embraces fresh start in Portland &#8220;I get to show the fans a different Ja\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interviews at Media Day kick off at about 9 a.m. with Trail Blazers President of Business Operations Dewayne Hankins, General Manager Joe Cronin and Head Coach Micah Nori.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers players will follow with press interviews throughout the day. You can watch a live stream from the press room below:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Trail Blazers Media Day\" class=\"LivestreamEmbed_thumbnail__K7KfB\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/b1dacf6c-a392-45d1-87ad-f7a8eb9ebcfa-DamianLillardspeakswiththepressattheBlazersMediaDay2025KATUphot.jpeg\" width=\"800\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Livestream is starting soon<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; updates will be posted as information comes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers are hosting media day on Monday, with players and staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-912947","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\/912947","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=912947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}