Portland Trail Blazers, Neil Olshey (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
Portland Trail Blazers fans have been clamoring for Neil Olshey’s firing year after year and the angry mob is only growing as time passes on. The movement only gained momentum when he spearheaded the Blazers decision to name troubled former star Chauncey Billups as the next head coach.
Fans were understandably upset over the general manager’s choice to hire an underqualified, morally suspect candidate to usher in the next era of Rip City basketball.
Shortly after, Oregon Public Broadcasting released an exposé that revealed that Olshey and the organization’s internal investigation into Billups sexual assault case wasn’t nearly as thorough or trustworthy as the general manager implied it to be in the presser to introduce Billups.