This likely wasn’t how Tiago Splitter envisioned getting his first win as an NBA head coach, but there he was, walking into the Trail Blazers’ locker room after defeating the Warriors on Friday and getting doused with water bottles by his players.

Splitter, 40 and a seven-year NBA veteran, took over as Portland’s interim head coach after Chauncey Billups was arrested Thursday over his alleged role in an illegal poker scheme — the same day that Heat guard Terry Rozier and former player Damon Jones were also arrested for their alleged roles in separate poker and illegal sports gambling rings.

The mood at the facility was “not great” on Thursday, Splitter told reporters pregame , but when the Trail Blazers needed to return to basketball and escape the chaos of the situation for at lea

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