Of all the squares on Portland’s “Let’s Get Rid of Trail Blazer Head Coach Chauncey Billups” bingo card—Mafia ties, extortion, and illegal gambling perhaps weren’t on the top of the list.

Last night—October 22, 2025—the Portland Trail Blazers played the Minnesota Timberwolves, losing the energetic home game 114 to 118. Though fashion icon Jerami Grant locked in for 24 points, Donovan Clingan sank a buzzer-beater, and Blazers' new hire Jrue Holiday earned his jersey, those aren’t the biggest bits of Rip City news this morning.

Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups was arrested this morning in Oregon in connection to a multi-year illegal gambling and sports-rigging operation involving several prominent East Coast Mafia crime families including the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese fam

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