Mr. Big Shot sat in a cell in Portland’s federal courthouse Thursday morning.

Chauncey Billups was arrested before dawn as part of a coordinated FBI operation that also nabbed the likes of Spanish G and Albanian Bruce, Flappy, Pookie, Black Tony, Juice and The Wrestler, a whole host of nefarious characters with alleged Mafia ties.

Are you kidding?

How utterly surreal.

How utterly... stupid.

The bombshell of Trail Blazers’ head coach Chauncey Billups arrest amid a broader gambling probe embarrasses the NBA, certainly. It raises serious questions about the validity of the games we watch, love and, yes, wager on.

But most urgently in Portland?

It makes you wonder how the Trail Blazers ever got so far down the road with a coach who arrived in Portland with the baggage of a decades-o

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