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“Damian Lillard is, without a doubt, better than Stephen Curry!”: Chauncey Billups makes an unimaginably bold statement while talking up Blazers head coaching job

Tonoy Sengupta
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"Damian Lillard is, without a doubt, better than Stephen Curry!": Chauncey Billups makes an unimaginably bold statement while talking up Blazers head coaching job

Chauncey Billups makes a bold claim about Damian Lillard while speaking on being hired by the Blazers as head coach

 

If there is anyone the Ben Simmons drama has benefitted, it is the Portland Trail Blazers. It has covered up all their failures beautifully during this past offseason.

The team has consistently failed to put the right team around Damian Lillard for quite some time. It’s even come to a point where he subtly threatened to leave if the franchise didn’t make any big changes.

Their response? Taking the word ‘big’ just a tiny bit too literally, and signing Cody Zeller.

With all that being said, calling Dame pissed off at this point, would probably be the understatement of the century. For new head coach Chauncey Billups though, it seems that the situation isn’t quite that bad.

The former player recently got on Adrian Wojnarowski’s podcast ahead of his first term as an NBA head coach. And during this very interview, let’s just say he made a take so hot, even the likes of Stephen A Smith and Kendrick Perkins would cower in fear.

Shall we get right into it, then?

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Chauncey Billups believes Damian Lillard is the best point guard in the league right now

So did Thanos snap Stephen Curry, Chris Paul, and Luka Doncic into dust too, or something? Or is Mr. Billups confusing the MCU with reality?

Oh, you don’t think he said it? Well then, take a look at the clip in the tweet below.

Okay, maybe Doncic is still debatable. However, there is still no way Lillard is number 1. Sure, he is a top 5 point guard in the game today, without a doubt. Anybody that disagrees with that just hasn’t seen the man play.

But No.1? No way.

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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

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Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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