Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is set to enter his first season as an NBA head coach with just one season of assistant coaching experience under his belt. In a recent piece for The Athletic, writer Jason Quick detailed how Billups jumped into his new career a little over a year ago during a personal coaching boot camp with Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue.
During the opening weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Billups hosted Lue—a long-time friend—and a few other basketball peers at his Denver home for six weeks to teach him the behind-the-scenes aspects of coaching.