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Blazers Part Ways with Investigator After Questionable Tweets Surface
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The Portland Trail Blazers are no longer doing business with the private investigator they hired to vet Head Coach Chauncey Billups after his Twitter feed was found to contain pornographic, anti-transgender, and other questionable material. The Twitter account of David Hallman, President and Owner of Adler Group, was changed to protected yesterday.
Sophie Peel of Willamette Week published a story this afternoon detailing the nature of Hallman’s tweets. She also quoted Ashley Clinkscale, Senior Vice President of Communications, Community, & Diversity for the Blazers, who said that the organization will no longer do business with Adler Group.
Craig Mitchelldyer
Editor’s Note: This story contains detailed descriptions of rape allegations.
In a most unusual introduction of a head coach to his new city and fans, the Portland Trail Blazers opened their June 29 news conference for Chauncey Billups by announcing they had completed their own investigation into decades-old rape allegations against him.
President of basketball operations Neil Olshey assured a crowd of reporters in Portland the team had corroborated Billups’ recollection that “nothing nonconsensual” happened during the alleged November 1997 incident between Billups and his accuser, who civil court filings identify under the pseudonym, Jane Doe.
“We did everything in our power to vet that incident,” Olshey said.