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PORTLAND, Ore. (February 1, 2022) – The Portland Trail Blazers staff, players and coaches are coming together to celebrate Black History Month throughout February while amplifying local Black-led nonprofit organizations and businesses. Throughout the month, the organization will host two celebration nights, multiple in-person and virtual events, contribute financial donations

Blazers Part Ways with Investigator After Questionable Tweets Surface Share this story Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images 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 Ashl...

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 Bill...

Comments AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer The Portland Trail Blazers hired Chauncey Billups as their head coach despite a rape allegation made against the former NBA star in 1997 when he was a member of the Boston Celtics. Portland said it did its due diligence in the case prior to the team hiring him during his introductory press conference. "With all sincerity, and you have my word ... we took the allegations very seriously, and we took them with the gravity that they deserved," Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said, per SeanHighkin of Bleacher Report. "We commissioned our own independent i...