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[WLVCA]

Portland will hire Chauncey Billips as their new head coach.

Reports: Chauncey Billups set to become Blazers' head coach | NBA.com

Portland is reportedly banking on Billups' renowned leadership to take Damian Lillard and the Blazers to new heights.

www.nba.com

 

[steve williams]

Portland will hire Chauncey Billips as their new head coach.

Reports: Chauncey Billups set to become Blazers' head coach | NBA.com

Portland is reportedly banking on Billups' renowned leadership to take Damian Lillard and the Blazers to new heights.

www.nba.com

Well I guess Lillard will be staying with Portland

 

[jadis]

Well I guess Lillard will be staying with Portland

He has to as he is signed through the end of 2025 with a whopping, I say whopping, $54m. If he asks for a trade, that will be some massive multiple players for 1 deal, maybe more than Harden.

 

[steve williams]

I wonder what Reggie Jackson will do at end of the season as I 5hink he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Clipps would be crazy not to sign him If they don't there is another LA team who might want him

 

[jadis]

I wonder what Reggie Jackson will do at end of the season as I 5hink he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Clipps would be crazy not to sign him If they don't there is another LA team who might want him

He got an $80m 5 year deal in 2015 and was bought out by the same Pistons team. This July is his Brink's truck month as he can get another 3 to 4 year deal. He is 31. Maybe $15m a year seems right.

 

[steve williams]

Great read on tonight's game

If history repeats the Clippers should win tonight. If so this series is up for grabs. A Suns win tonight would make it very difficult for the Clippers

Suns looking to up the pressure and pace in Game 4 against Clippers. Phoenix is eager to re-establish the relentless formula that earned them a berth in the Western Conference final​

Suns looking to up the pressure and pace in Game 4 against Clippers

Phoenix is eager to re-establish the relentless formula that earned them a berth in the Western Conference finals.

www.nba.com

 

[steve williams]

This says it all. Confirms my feelings about Nate McMillan. Win or lose he's proved his worth and should become HC next year

NBA playoffs 2021: Trae Young, Nate McMillan and the pact that sparked the Atlanta Hawks' postseason run​

'Trae believes in Nate, and Nate believes in Trae': The bond that transformed the Hawks

The Hawks were famously 14-20 and near the bottom of the East before a star and his interim coach found something in each other.

www.espn.com

 

[jadis]

As a Celtics fan, I never knew that news about Billups and a rape accusation, in his rookie year.

“I like J. Kidd and Chauncey,” Lillard told The Athletic earlier this month.

Since then, fans have expressed their frustrations over Billups being named the likely Blazers coach, citing a previous incident he had in 1997.

When Billups was a rookie with the Celtics, a woman accused him and Ron Mercer of rape at the home of Antoine Walker. Billups and Mercer settled the suit with the unidentified woman, paying her an undisclosed amount out of court."

Damian Lillard caught in the middle of Chauncey Billups backlash

The reported next Blazers head coach has received some backlash from the Portland faithful.

us.yahoo.com

I wasn't too fond of him as an ESPN commentator either.

 

[WLVCA]

Clippers ice cold from beyond the arc - just 3 0f 19.

 

[steve williams]

Totally different teams. Suns playing great and Clippets ice cold

44-29 Suns in the 2nd

Booker with 3 fouls

 

[steve williams]

CP3 has gotten into PG’s head and Patrick Beverley is doing the same to Devin Booker

 

[steve williams]

At the halfSuns with a commanding lead

50-36

 

[WLVCA]

Guess these refs don't know it is a playoff game.

Let them play!

 

[steve williams]

Booker missing too many shots and is now playing without his mask

 

[steve williams]

At the age of 22 Aytom IMO is a hugely skilled center. He reminds me a lot of Hakeem Olajuwon

 

[WLVCA]

I guess Booker was fibbing when he said it didn't bother him

 

[steve williams]

Reggie Jackson is amazing

 

[WLVCA]

At the age of 22 Aytom IMO is a hugely skilled center. He reminds me a lot of Hakeem Olajuwon

He seems to have smartened up after he was suspended last year for 25 games for using a banned substance.

Definitely a talented player.

 

[steve williams]

Clippers back in it as a -5 point lead is now only

63-58

 

[WLVCA]

Reggie Jackson is amazing

He wasn't even a starter at the beginning of the season. He really stepped up when Pat Beverly was injured.