The Portland Path Blazers have announced a number of basketball operations additions and promotions for the 2026-27 season, together with 5 assistant coaches becoming a member of new head coach Micah Nori’s workers.
Jay Triano, Mike Williams, Quinton Crawford, Gilbert Abraham and Leron Black will function assistant coaches, whereas Pooh Jeter and Jason Luhnow have been named participant growth coaches.
Triano brings 20 years of NBA teaching expertise to Portland and returns to the group after beforehand serving as a Path Blazers assistant from 2012-16. The 2026 Canada’s Sports activities Corridor of Fame inductee beforehand served as head coach of the Toronto Raptors from 2008-11 and the Phoenix Suns in 2017-18.
Triano additionally coached the Canadian nationwide crew from 1999-04 and 2012-19 and represented Canada as a participant at three Olympic Video games. He spent the 2025-26 season as an assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks.
Williams joins Portland after three seasons as an assistant with the Utah Jazz. Earlier than that, he spent two seasons as head coach of the Washington Wizards’ G League affiliate, the Capital Metropolis Go-Go, main the crew to a 19-13 document and a semifinal look in 2022-23.
Crawford enters his second season with the Path Blazers after beforehand teaching the Stockton Kings to the 2025 NBA G League championship in his first season as head coach. He has additionally labored as an assistant with the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers, together with on Los Angeles’ 2020 championship workers.
Abraham will proceed as an assistant coach whereas getting into his third season as Portland’s Director of Participant Improvement. Black has been promoted to assistant coach after spending final season as a participant growth coach and beforehand working two seasons as an assistant with the Rip Metropolis Remix.
Jeter enters his fourth season as a participant growth coach. His enjoying profession included the Sacramento Kings, G League Ignite and worldwide stops in Spain, Israel, China, France, Turkey and Ukraine.
Luhnow additionally enters his fourth season with Portland and strikes right into a full-time participant growth function after working because the crew’s video coordinator and participant growth coach final season.
The group will retain Ikenna Good as video coordinator and participant growth coach, whereas Ty Vitko returns as assistant video coordinator and John Townsend stays taking pictures coach. Jacob Mooallem enters his fifth season as analytics coach.
Nate Bjorkgren will transition right into a Particular Assistant to the Teaching Employees and Basketball Operations function after three seasons in Portland. Bjorkgren beforehand coached the Indiana Pacers throughout the 2020-21 season and labored as a Toronto Raptors assistant.
Portland has additionally employed James Brocato as Director of Basketball Innovation following 12 years with the Dallas Mavericks, the place he most not too long ago served as Director of Basketball Analytics.
The workers modifications come throughout a major transition for the Path Blazers. Portland employed Nori on June 23 and later acquired Ja Morant from the Memphis Grizzlies in a blockbuster that despatched Jerami Grant and Kris Murray to Memphis.
The Blazers also extended Robert Williams III for 3 years and added Jeremy Sochan and Branden Carlson throughout the offseason. Portland didn’t have a range within the 2026 NBA Draft after its first-round decide was conveyed to Chicago and its second-round decide went to New Orleans.
With Morant becoming a member of a backcourt that additionally consists of Damian Lillard, Jrue Vacation and Scoot Henderson, Nori may have a considerable roster-management problem getting into his first season. Shaedon Sharpe can be recovering from a torn meniscus, whereas Deni Avdija’s again damage stays one other subject to observe.
