{"id":161443,"date":"2025-10-04T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=161443"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:35:08","slug":"shaedon-sharpe-showing-deserves-second-blazers-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/10\/04\/shaedon-sharpe-showing-deserves-second-blazers-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Featured Scorer Showing He Deserves Second Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Trail Blazers’ training camp is well underway, and the team is preparing for a big 2025-26 campaign. Individually, no player on the roster may have as much riding the upcoming season as Shaedon Sharpe<\/a>, whose potential is becoming an increasingly hot topic as his rookie contract nears its end. The seventh overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, Sharpe has shown he fits well into Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups’ system before.<\/p>\n

By the sound of his teammates, he’s proving himself again.<\/p>\n

Shaedon Sharpe Showing He Deserves Second Blazers Contract<\/h2>\n

Heading into the 2025-26 season, the Trail Blazers have considerable hype behind them. Buoyed by hard-nosed defense and the evolution of Deni Avdija<\/a>, the second half of 2024-25 was enough to get people excited about Billups’ team. Their offseason moves –namely the return of Damian Lillard<\/a>, the trade for Jrue Holiday<\/a>, and the drafting of Hansen Yang<\/a> –have only heightened the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Of course, Portland might be reeling from hopeful future franchise point guard Scoot Henderson<\/a>\u00a0going down with an unexpected offseason injury<\/a>. Even so, another youngster is tearing it up for Portland.<\/p>\n

Rave Training Camp Reviews<\/h3>\n

Yang has been turning heads in training camp, but Sharpe has arguably been the Blazers’ biggest standout.<\/p>\n

Holiday, who’s one of the newest players on the team but still a 16-year NBA veteran, has notably seen big positives from the 22-year-old: “Shaedon, man. I think everybody knows the talent that he is and what he can do, but that boy can hoop. When you go up against him in practice, first-hand, every single day, he\u2019s got it…”<\/p>\n

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— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) October 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n