Portland let a beloved NBAGL coach depart for an assistant gig with a West rival.
Portland's fourth-year head coach, Chauncey Billups, has a team option on his contract for the 2024-25 season, though Billups has at least inferred that he'd be amenable to moving on from what looks to be a long-term, lottery-bound situation with the Trail Blazers.Across three underwhelming seasons in Rip City thus far, Billups has posted an 81-165 record and has yet to make a postseason.
It's unclear if the opportunity to serve under Billups with the Trail Blazers proper was ever floated to Moran prior to his decision to depart the Remix. "I do know that they were big fans of what he was doing leading their G League team and would have been very happy keeping him in that role if he hadn’t gotten the offer from the Kings," Highkin notes. "There are always other factors that come into play with this sort of coaching turnover. Steve Hetzel is another assistant coach the Blazers thought very highly of and weren’t looking to part ways with when he left to become Jordi Fernandez’s lead assistant in Brooklyn.
In their last season under Moran, the 2023-24 Rip City Remix went 18-16 overall, finishing ninth in the G League's Western Conference
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