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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...

Editor's Note: This story includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault allegations. The Trail Blazers made it clear on June 29's introductory press conference that they were done discussing new head coach Chauncey Billups's past—his sexual assault allegations.  The organization opened the presser by announcing it had concluded its own investigation into the 1997 alleged rape that led to then-Celtics rookie Billups and several of his friends and teammates being sued by a woman who said he and his friends sexually assaulted her.  “With all sincerity, and you have my word along with eve...

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...