Damian Lillard might be wavering in his commitment to the Portland Trail Blazers because of Portland’s inability to build a contender and the recent backlash against their’ plans to hire Chauncey Billups as their new head coach. Citing “league sources”, Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports offered that suggestion in an article released today.
The Blazers bowed out of the 2021 NBA Playoffs in the first round, losing in six games to a Denver Nuggets team without star guard Jamal Murray, the fifth first-round exit in eight tries for Lillard.
Billups’ hiring has been accompanied by controversy due to a civil lawsuit charging him with a 1997 sexual assault, which he settled in 2000.