The Portland Trail Blazers organization is still recovering from the shock that resulted from their head coach Chauncey Billups being arrested by the FBI for supposed activity in rigged poker games. Billups was one of three publicly revealed NBA figures to have been arrested as part of a wide-ranging investigation that included both the poker games as well as the illegal selling of information for NBA betting, a scandal that has rocked the league to its core.

Recently, newly acquired Blazers guard Jrue Holiday spoke on his initial reaction to the news.

“Honestly, we were shocked,” said Holiday, per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.

Holiday also spoke on the respect he personally has for Billups, considering the way Billups helped get him to the Boston Celtics when Holiday was first tr

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