Breaking down all the breakdowns that have taken place in Portland over the last six months could easily take six years.
Three weeks after the Blazers—the stalest team in the league—parted ways with longtime coach Terry Stotts in June, they hired Chauncey Billups, a respected ex-player and analyst, who’d faced a sexual assault allegation from 1997, one he never faced charges for and has said was consensual, but he reached an out-of-court settlement three years later.
At Billups’s introductory press conference, general manager Neil Olshey, who hired Billups, said the team looked into the allegations against Billups and hired a firm to investigate the merits of the case.