The Portland Trail Blazers don’t have time to really process everything that’s happened in the last week. The NBA schedule doesn’t allow for it.

Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was one of many arrested on Thursday as part of a years-long, wide-ranging federal investigation into rigged poker games, allegedly backed by the mafia, and other illegal gambling schemes.

That morning, the Blazers players learned, just as we all did, that their coach would not be coming back for the foreseeable future (if ever), Tiago Splitter learned that he’d be the Blazers interim head coach, and without skipping a beat they all had to get ready for a game on Friday night.

The Blazers have miraculously gone 3-1 since Billups’ arrest, including a 136-134 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.

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