Portland Trail Blazers head coach and National Basketball Association hall of famer Chauncey Billups is expected to plead not guilty to federal charges that he helped lure unsuspecting players to rigged poker games when he appears in Brooklyn federal court Monday.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 37 points and the OKC Thunder improved to 17-1 on the season with a 122-95 win against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several Mafia figures and

The Thunder (16-1) have won eight in a row in their historic start. After trailing by 18 points, they destroyed the Utah Jazz in a 144-112 win on Friday that also counted towards the 2025 NBA Cup. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 31 points and eight assists in three quarters.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) — Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard launched a new scholarship program this year, offering students from nine Bay Area high schools the opportunity to receive $25,000 annually to attend Portland State University.

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday ruled largely in favor of soon-to-be Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon in a messy legal dispute related to a professional football league that collapsed shortly after Dundon became its biggest investor.

The Portland Trail Blazers will be without six players for their 5 p.m. PT matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks, who are down four players — including star forwa

Lillard is expected to sit out the whole season. Portland was also without guards Jrue Holiday, Scoot Henderson, Shaedon Sharpe, Matisse Thybulle and Blake Wesley. Portland still had Jerami Grant, however, and the veteran wing torched the Bucks for 35 points in 31 minutes.