The Portland Trail Blazers named Chauncey Billups as the franchises next coach late Sunday night.The team reached an agreement on a five-year deal with the former LA Clippers assistant that includes a team choice on the last season, sources informed ESPN.Billups, 44, will be introduced at a Tuesday news conference in Portland, sources said.Blazers president of basketball operations Neil Olshey and Billups agent, Andy Miller of Klutch Sports, finalized the contract terms on Sunday, sources stated. No criminal charges were brought, but Billups settled a civil suit submitted by the woman.Although Billups had actually been vetted numerous times for top-level NBA management jobs, consisting of a deal to end up being president of basketball operations for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2017 and in his current role with the Clippers, the Blazers used much of the search process to review the allegations from Billups novice season in the NBA, sources said.Billups encouraged the examination, sources stated, and his answers in numerous discussions with Blazers officials aligned with findings from an independent examination, sources said. Olsheys history with Billups goes back, among other methods, to their time together with the Clippers in the 2011-2012 season.Olshey has actually long thought about Billups one of the best leaders he had actually ever come across in the NBA, and that relationship– along with Lillards public endorsement– played a part in Billups picking the Portland task over other opportunities, sources said.Billups is tasked with elevating a Blazers defense that ranked amongst the worst in the league last season and continuing to develop on a top-rated offense featuring Lillard and CJ McCollum.