Despite a vote of confidence at the end of the season, Portland has made a series of moves that suggest uncertainty about the head coach’s future with the franchise.
As coaching vacancies open up across the NBA, teams are monitoring the situation with Chauncey Billups in Portland,Billups, 47, recently completed his third season as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. He received a vote of confidence from general manager Joe Cronin last month but last week the organization chose not to renew the contracts of two of Billups’s assistants, including Billups’s younger brother, Rodney.
In 2021, Billups was hired by the Blazers with the hope that he could elevate a perennial playoff team into a title contender. Injuries marred Billups’s first two seasons and last summer, Portland traded Damian Lillard, ending the star point guard’s 11-year run with the franchise and beginning what was expected to be a lengthy rebuild.
At the Blazers’ season-ending media availability Cronin praised Billups’s performance. He called Billups “an incredible leader” and “an incredible teacher” for Portland’s young roster. But while Billups told reporters he was focused on winning next season, Cronin shifted the focus to developing Portland’s young core, headlined by Anfernee Simons and Scoot Henderson. The Blazers, who finished tied for the NBA’s third worst record, will add another high lottery pick to the roster next year.
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