The Portland Trail Blazers have signed head coach Chauncey Billups to a multiyear contract extension, the team announced.
The new deal keeps Billups under contract through the 2027-28 season. Portland exercised its team option for the 2025-26 campaign and added two more guaranteed years, according to NBA insider Chris Haynes.
“The core of Chauncey’s leadership is his ability to build a collaborative culture and growth mindset for our young team,” said Jody Allen, chair of the Trail Blazers. “We’re very happy to extend his contract as head coach and excited to see his continued work developing our players and transforming this team into one capable of long-term success.”
Billups, 48, has served as Portland’s head coach since the 2021-22 season. He owns a 116-211 record across four seasons, including a 35-46 mark entering Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Los Angeles Lakers. The team showed signs of progress late in the year, going 22-18 since Jan. 19 and ranking among the league’s top five defenses during that span.
His extension follows a similar multiyear agreement signed by general manager Joe Cronin last week. The two have been close friends for decades, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Speculation had swirled earlier this season that Billups might not return after the 2024-25 campaign, which was the final guaranteed year of his original deal. However, Portland’s strong 10-4 stretch leading into the All-Star break shifted the tone.
“Me personally, I definitely think that I’ve done enough,” Billups told reporters when asked about his future. “But I’m also not about to petition for that. I feel like I’ve developed a ton myself, which needed to happen.”
A former NBA champion and Finals MVP, Billups was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2024. The five-time All-Star won a title with the Detroit Pistons in 2004.
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