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Editor’s Note: This story contains detailed descriptions of rape allegations.
In a most unusual introduction of a head coach to his new city and fans, the Portland Trail Blazers opened their June 29 news conference for Chauncey Billups by announcing they had completed their own investigation into decades-old rape allegations against him.
President of basketball operations Neil Olshey assured a crowd of reporters in Portland the team had corroborated Billups’ recollection that “nothing nonconsensual” happened during the alleged November 1997 incident between Billups and his accuser, who civil court filings identify under the pseudonym, Jane Doe.
“We did everything in our power to vet that incident,” Olshey said.
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The Portland Trail Blazers hired Chauncey Billups as their head coach despite a rape allegation made against the former NBA star in 1997 when he was a member of the Boston Celtics.
Portland said it did its due diligence in the case prior to the team hiring him during his introductory press conference. With all sincerity, and you have my word . we took the allegations very seriously, and we took them with the gravity that they deserved, Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said, per SeanHighkin of Bleacher Report. We commissioned our own independent investigation into the incident in 1997, he added. Our investigation corroborated what Chauncey told us, that nothing non-consensual occurred. We stand by Chauncey.