{"id":843217,"date":"2026-09-10T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843217\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:38:23","slug":"nate-bjorkgren-transitions-to-special-assistant-role-with-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843217\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Bjorkgren Transitions to Special Assistant Role With Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Portland Trail Blazers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/blazers\/news\/portland-trail-blazers-announce-basketball-operations-additions-and-promotions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have announced<\/a> several additions to new head coach Micah Nori\u2019s coaching staff, including the previously reported hires of assistant coaches Jay Triano and Mike Williams. The Trail Blazers also announced assistant coach Nate Bjorkgren will be transitioning to a new role as special assistant to the coaching staff and basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Additionally, Leron Black has been promoted from player development coach to an assistant coach, while assistant coaches Quinton Crawford and Gilbert Abraham will be returning to serve as assistants on Nori\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bjorkgren joined the franchise as a special assistant to the coaching staff during the third season of suspended head coach Chauncey Billups\u2019 tenure in 2023-24. He then spent the past two seasons as one of Portland\u2019s top assistants under Billups and then acting head coach Tiago Splitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Black spent last season as a Blazers player development coach following a two-year stint as an assistant coach with the Blazers\u2019 G League affiliate Rip City Remix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The full press release is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/blazers\/news\/portland-trail-blazers-announce-basketball-operations-additions-and-promotions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers have announced several additions to new head coach Micah Nori\u2019s coaching staff, including the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[76835,355,99],"class_list":["post-843217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-blazers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}