Safe to say this has been a surreal year in Portland, a city where inflatable unicorns regularly dance in clouds of tear gas. Similarly, Walton’s Law says that any disaster that can befall the Trail Blazers eventually will. Yet the news that broke at dawn Oct. 23 feels bizarre even by those standards: Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was arrested (what?) by the FBI (what?!) for conspiring to rig celebrity poker games (WHAT!!) run by four Mafia families (passes out). That’s not even mentioning the federal indictment that mentions a coach whose résumé matches Billups’ feeding inside information to gamblers about the Blazers sitting Damian Lillard to tank the season (wakes up, curses, passes out again). Here’s what our readers had to say:

Hank Stern, via Facebook: “Never would’ve imagine

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