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The Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> and head coach Chauncey Billups have agreed to a multi-year contract extension, the team announced Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many league observers viewed Billups as potentially on the hot seat during the first half of the season. But the young Blazers \u2014 with Shaedon Sharpe<\/a>, Anfernee Simons<\/a> and Deni Avdija<\/a> \u2014 have shown promise, going 22-18 since Jan. 18.<\/p>\n

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On the season, Portland is 35-46 \u2014 a 14-win improvement over last season \u2014 and 12th in the Western Conference<\/a> before wrapping up its campaign Sunday by hosting the third-seeded Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> at 3:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

Billups, 48, is in his fourth season coaching Portland and is in the final year of his four-year contract<\/a>. He has compiled a 116-211 record with the franchise, which is still searching for its first playoff berth during his tenure.<\/p>\n

A Hall of Famer, Billups played 17 NBA seasons that included five All-Star appearances and an NBA championship with the Detroit Pistons<\/a> in 2004, when he also earned Finals MVP.<\/p>\n

Billups’ extension follows the Trail Blazers also signing general manager Joe Cronin<\/a> to a new contract. Cronin took over as GM after Neil Olshey was dismissed<\/a> approximately six months after Billups was hired<\/a> as head coach.<\/p>\n

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Under Billups and Cronin, Portland has undertaken a rebuild in which stars Damian Lillard<\/a>, CJ McCollum<\/a> and Norman Powell<\/a> were traded away. In addition to Sharpe, Simons and Avdija, the team’s young core includes Scoot Henderson<\/a> and Toumani Camara<\/a>, supplemented by veterans Jerami Grant<\/a> and Deandre Ayton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Blazers are currently slotted for the No. 9 selection<\/a> in the NBA Draft, pending the outcome of the NBA Draft Lottery, which can add more talent to the roster.<\/p>\n

Portland was officially eliminated from playoff consideration<\/a> last Sunday with the Sacramento Kings’ win<\/a> over the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>. Yet the Blazers can finish just three games back of the No. 10 seed, which would have qualified them for the NBA play-in tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers and head coach Chauncey Billups have agreed to a multi-year contract extension, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[4329,7,601,2298,7046,193,125,1586,980,188,5673,7175,150,6,558,687,471,3967,477,4425,4426,4498,7140,1617,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-40268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-anfernee-simons","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-chauncey-billups","12":"tag-cj-mccollum","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-damian-lillard","15":"tag-deandre-ayton","16":"tag-deni-avdija","17":"tag-detroit-pistons","18":"tag-jerami-grant","19":"tag-joe-cronin","20":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-norman-powell","23":"tag-portland","24":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","25":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","26":"tag-sacramento-kings","27":"tag-scoot-henderson","28":"tag-shaedon-sharpe","29":"tag-the-blazers","30":"tag-toumani-camara","31":"tag-trail-blazers","32":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114526154025094479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}