From Jack Ramsay to present day, where does Billups fit? Portland Trail Blazers coaching talk has been heating up since the end of the regular season a month ago, with Head Coach Chauncey Billups featuring in a mild set of rumors around the league.
Whispers around the league continue to question Billups’ job security. The NBA Draft Combine in Chicago last week, of course, featured much discussion and speculation about prospects who will be selected in June’s NBA Draft.
Here’s a reason another season might make sense. Despite the 2024 NBA Draft lottery, the impending draft, the upcoming trade and free agent season, and a hundred other items on the National Basketball Association calendar, no topic is capturing the attention of Portland Trail Blazers fans as persistently as Portland’s coaching situation.
Even with Chauncey Billups as the head coach, the Portland Trail Blazers still sunk to the bottom of the Western Conference this season. Now, the former Detroit Pistons star may be on the move as rival NBA teams are closely monitoring his situation in Rip City.
Long-time NBA reporter Chris Mannix said on Wednesday night that teams are “monitoring” Chauncey Billups after the Portland Trail Blazers recently fired two of his assistants.
The Portland Trail Blazers officially hit the reset button before last season began when they traded Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. Moving on from their longtime franchise cornerstone signaled the organization’s intention to retool the roster around younger players.
Teams around the NBA are monitoring Chauncey Billups‘ situation in Portland.
There appears to be increasing speculation regarding Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups' job status.
The Portland Trail Blazers will not renew the contracts for assistant coaches Scott Brooks and Rodney Billups, per Aaron Fentress of the Oregonian. The change comes on the heels of assistant Steve Hetzel departing the Blazers on April 22 to join the Brooklyn Nets’ coaching staff following three seasons in Portland.
The Portland Trail Blazers may be retaining head coach Chauncey Billups for a fourth season in 2024-25, but the club will be missing two of his top assistants, reports Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups hasn’t had much success on his first try leading an NBA team’s bench. Hired before the 2021-22 season, Billups owns just an 81-165 record in his first three seasons as head coach.
Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/Oregon Live reported the news. The Portland Trail Blazers won’t renew the contracts for assistant coaches Scott Brooks and Rodney Billups, Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/Oregon Live reported, per a league source.
The Portland Trail Blazers had a season to forget in 2023-24. Portland is headed to its third straight NBA lottery under head coach Chauncey Billups, thanks to a miserable 21-61 finish.
The assistant coach will join Jordi Fernandez’s new staff in Brooklyn. Portland Trail Blazers Assistant Coach Steve Hetzel is leaving the franchise to become an assistant for the Brooklyn Nets on Head Coach Jordi Fernandez’s new staff, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Chauncey Billups just led the Trail Blazers to their worst finish in nearly two decades, but he is not going anywhere just yet.
Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin told reporters that the organization is committed to Chauncey Billups as head coach, despite Portland missing the NBA playoffs in each of Billups’ first three seasons.
There had been some speculation that Billups was on the hot seat in Portland after a third consecutive disappointing season for the Blazers. Since he took over for Terry Stotts in 2021, Billups has led the club to an 81-165 (.329) regular season record, with no more than 33 wins in any season.
The Portland Trail Blazers are in the midst of a rebuild after trading Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks last summer. In this 2023-24 campaign, they have one of the worst records in the NBA at 21-57 and are likely headed to the draft lottery.
Former NBA dunking and scoring machine Vince Carter and current Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, who led the Detroit Pistons to the 2004 championship, will be among the latest class of inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, per Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Vince Carter and Chauncey Billups headline the 2024 Hall of Fame class.
A big part of the Orlando Magic’s success this season can be attributed to head coach Jamahl Mosley for his work on developing the young roster into a well-oiled machine.
After several seasons as a bridesmaid, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has at last a made it to the round of 14 finalists for a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player, per an NBA.com press statement.
The Portland Trail Blazers were tasked with facing the defending champion Denver Nuggets twice in three nights this week. Both games, played in Denver, resulted in victories for Nikola Jokic and company, and ahead of the first matchup, Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups had nothing but high praise for his two-time MVP opponent.
The Trail Blazers were in good shape on Wednesday night up one point with the ball and only seconds remaining, and then everything fell apart.
The 2023-24 NBA regular season has been a tough one for the Portland Trail Blazers. Entering their matchup with the New York Knicks on Tuesday night they were 10-25, 5-14 on the road.
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