{"id":18786,"date":"2014-05-15T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blazers-sign-stotts-to-multi-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:27:00","slug":"blazers-sign-stotts-to-multi-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blazers-sign-stotts-to-multi-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers sign Stotts to multi-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; The Portland Trail Blazers signed head coach Terry Stotts to a multi-year contract extension on Thursday. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Stotts led Portland to a 54-win season after the team went 33-49 the year prior and helped the Blazers to their first playoff series win in 14 years after defeating the Houston Rockets in six games in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terry has done an outstanding job during his first two years with the organization,&#8221; Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said. &#8220;This extension illustrates our confidence in him as our head coach as well as the Portland Trail Blazers&#8217; continued commitment to building a model of consistency and stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Stotts&#8217; third coaching stop. He previously held the post in Milwaukee (2005-07) and Atlanta (2002-04).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started the process two seasons ago and laid the foundation for success. I look forward to the possibilities of the upcoming seasons,&#8221; Stotts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (Sports Network) &#8211; The Portland Trail Blazers signed head coach Terry Stotts to a multi-year contract extension on Thursday. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Stotts led Portland to a 54-win season after the team went 33-49 the year prior and helped the Blazers to their first playoff series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[237,236,238],"class_list":["post-18786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}