(Portland, OR) -- The Blazers have hired Chauncey Billups as their next head coach. Billups has been an assistant with the Clippers since 2020 and played in the NBA from 1997 to 2014, making five All Star teams and winning the Finals MVP with the 2004 Detroit Pistons championship team. The Blazers fired Terry Stotts after finishing 42-and-30 and losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Denver Nuggets.