Live bar Jan. 31 – Billups has taken on the role of Blazers' head coach this season.
In reality, Changsi Billups could have worked as an NBA head coach without any coaching experience, but he chose to start as an assistant coach for one season, and in the 2020-21 season, Billups joined the Los Angeles Clippers coaching staff as the team's chief assistant coach.
He believes it will help him, saying: "There are so many things I didn't know, I learned a lot last year. That followed in the 2021-22 season, he became the Blazers' head coach.
Billups (nicknamed "Mr. Key") helped the Pistons win the NBA championship in the 2003–04 Finals by beating the Lakers in the Finals, and was named the NBA Finals MVP (FMVP) and was named to the NBA All-Star Team five times (2006-10).
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