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Portland Trail Blazers head coach
Chauncey Billups said he hopes superstar point guard Damian Lillard
will remain with the franchise, but he’s not going to beg him to stay.
Billups, a five-time All-Star as a
player who was hired by Portland as a first-time head coach in June,
discussed Lillard’s future Thursday on SiriusXM NBA Radio.
“I came here to coach you, but it’s
your career and it’s your life and it’s your family,” Billups said. “I’ve been there before, and I’m not going to be the guy preaching,
‘Stay here, stay here, go there, do this.’ No. I got a job to do, I
want to do it with you, obviously. But if at some point you deem, ‘Hey, another place is another place for me,’ that’s not going to be
an indictment on myself. That’s going to be you making a decision
for you and your family.”
He added the belief is Lillard remains “all-in” on the Blazers.
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