After 26 games, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups felt like a change needed to be made in the starting lineup.
In Sunday night’s loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Billups opted to start Larry Nance Jr. instead of Robert Covington, who has started every game he’s played with the Blazers since arriving ahead of the 2020-21 season.
The Blazers starting five has not been fully healthy for the last five games with Damian Lillard and/or CJ McCollum out, so the five that started last night (Lillard, Norman Powell, Nassir Little, Nance Jr.