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Damian Lillard Probably Won t Go Anywhere Right Now
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Craig Mitchelldyer
Originally published on June 29, 2021 6:51 pm
The Portland Trail Blazers introduced Chauncey Billups as their new head coach on Tuesday, with officials attempting to both build support for the new coach and avoid pointed questions about a rape allegation he faced in 1997.
Even before Billups spoke, president of basketball operations Neil Olshey addressed the elephant in the room: the opposition among many fans to hiring a coach accused of sexual assault as a player.
Olshey said the team paid for an outside investigation, and he says it confirmed Billups’ account of what occurred.
“That nothing non-consensual happened,” Olshey said. “We stand by Chauncey everyone in the organization, and believe he’s the right choice to be our head coach, and the right choice to be the kind of ambassador in the Portland community that everyone here has become accustomed to.”
Originally posted on Sportsnaut | By Vincent Frank | Last updated 6/29/21
Billups replaces longtime head coach Terry Stotts for a Blazers organization that is in the midst of some major drama following another first-round exit in the NBA Playoffs.
The backstory here stems from a 1997 rape allegation against Billups when he was a rookie for the Boston Celtics. While the NBA champion was never charged in the case, he did settle out of court with the unnamed woman.
This has not been lost on people around the NBA or Portland Trail Blazers fans, especially given the fact that Becky Hammon was a finalist for the job with Billups.
Blazers stand by hiring of Chauncey Billups as head coach
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Originally posted on RealGM | By Colin McGowan | Last updated 6/28/21
Dame Lillard should get the hell out of Portland. That’s what it seems like he wants to do, and he probably has the leverage to do it. Nobody can say he failed to give the Blazers a fair shake. He’s been with the organization since being drafted sixth overall in 2012, made six All-NBA Teams, qualified for the playoffs every year except his rookie season, won a handful of big playoff games more or less by himself, and built his heroic legend in the Pacific Northwest.
There are superstars whose ringlessness seems to indicate a defect in their characters or abilities. Dame isn’t like that. He’s done about as much as he could possibly do with what he’s been provided in Portland: LaMarcus Aldridge, C.J. McCollum, a cast of small forwards who can’t shoot, Jusuf Nurkić struggling to stay healthy. Through it all, the Blazers have been good but not great. The g
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