When will the Portland Trail Blazers acknowledge the obvious about their Chauncey Billups problem?

Next to a maple office door in the hallway leading to the Portland Trail Blazers ’ Moda Center locker room, the nameplate remains.

“ CHAUNCEY BILLUPS ,” it reads.

The team’s website continues to show a smiling Billups at the top of the page listing its coaching staff. And no less an authority than Wikipedia insists, “Chauncey Ray Billups is an American basketball player and coach who is the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Technically, that remains true.

But what exactly are the Blazers doing here?

Three weeks have passed since Billups was indicted on federal charges . And while the Blazers have not acted to remove Billups as head coach, it seems the franchise is not so much standing by its man as it is simply standing by.

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