I respected honesty. Olshey, addressing how to keep Lillard happy, says it always revolves around winning. Olshey says the ultimate responsibility for that falls on him and his staff. Olshey says Lillard loves Portland and wants to be with the Blazers. But he says the responsibility is on him to put a roster in place that is good enough for the Blazers to contend for a championship. Says the Blazers have versatility on the roster.
Says they have some very talented offensive players. Olshey says they admire Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon, says she did a great job in her interview. Says it was a diverse list of candidates. Billups checked a lot of the boxes, Olshey said.
They were looking for leadership, says Billups can keep players accountable. Olshey mentions the history that Olshey and Billups had with the Clippers. Roy Rogers enters his first season as an assistant coach for the Trail Blazers in He arrives in Portland with 13 years of experience as an NBA assistant coach.
Rogers spent the season with the LA Clippers, where he worked alongside Chauncey Billups and helped the team reach the Western Conference Finals. Rogers spent the season on the Chicago bench and before that spent three seasons with Houston, which included an appearance in the Western Conference Finals in He has also worked as an assistant coach with Washington , Brooklyn , Detroit , Boston and New Jersey He played four seasons at Alabama from before being selected with the 22nd pick of the NBA Draft.
Steve Hetzel joins the Trail Blazers for his first season as a Portland assistant coach in Hetzel spent the last seven seasons as an assistant coach under Steve Clifford, first in Charlotte and most recently in Orlando In his lone season in Canton, Hetzel led the Charge to a record, finishing second in the East division. Prior to Canton, Hetzel spent four seasons as a player development coach with the Detroit Pistons He began his NBA career in the video room, first as an assistant video coordinator with San Antonio in the season and then as the video coordinator for Cleveland for three seasons A criminal rape investigation never resulted in charges against Billups or the other men.
A civil case filed in federal court in Massachusetts by Doe offers some specifics of the allegations she made, however. Retracing the case involves many roadblocks. Reilly, who served as Massachusetts attorney general from to , told OPB in an email that he believes Billups.
Reilly declined to go into any detail about the case or to describe the evidence that led him to the conclusion that Billups did not rape Jane Doe in November Billups is telling the truth about the incident you refer to.
Billups, a former NBA champion, spent most of his vaunted career without the allegation at the forefront. The other was Jason Kidd, who previously pleaded guilty to hitting his ex-wife.
Olshey had already hired Billups once, signing him as a player in when Olshey was general manager for the Los Angeles Clippers.
After news leaked that Billups was a top choice for the Blazers position, the team received blowback from fans over the allegation, and over the news that the Blazers had passed over Becky Hammon, another finalist with more coaching experience. Billups is in his first year as an assistant coach with the Clippers. On June 27, the team announced it had scheduled an introductory press conference for a new head coach, without naming Billups.
Olshey and Billups spoke to reporters on June The day after the press conference, The Athletic reported through an unnamed source that the Blazers had commissioned a former FBI investigator to retrace the case, which, according to the report, involved re-interviewing witnesses and watching tapes of past interviews.
The police department in Waltham, Massachusetts, the Boston suburb where the alleged rape occurred, said it had received just one recent inquiry regarding Billups.
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