The fallout after the hiring of new Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been widely covered by this publication and others. Now, Henry Abbott of TrueHoop makes the argument that Neil Olshey might be looking to get canned by the franchise he has worked for since 2012 following the disaster of a press conference.
It might have been the least successful press conference in NBA history. Sources said Olshey’s job was beyond secure before that day. (He IS the Trail Blazers. Almost no one in the building has been here since 2012.