It’s the offseason for the Portland Trail Blazers , but that didn’t stop Head Coach Chauncey Billups from sitting down with Tyree Smith from Portland television station KATU for a near-half-hour interview about the Blazers and the NBA.

In the course of the interview, Billups discussed the success and construction of the Western Conference Champion Oklahoma City Thunder, early offseason workouts for the team, the development of Shaedon Sharpe, Scoot Henderson, and Donovan Clingan, assimilating Deni Avdija, what he, himself has learned as a coach, his recent contract extension, his love for the city of Portland, the evolution of the NBA in recent years, and more.

On the development of Sharpe and the main focus this summer, Billups said:

I thought he had a really, really good end of th

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