Tiago Splitter will guide the Portland Trail Blazers for the foreseeable future. The team on Thursday named Splitter its interim head coach, a team source told The Oregonian/OregonLive, elevating an assistant who only joined the organization this summer.

The Portland Trail Blazers made their first statement as an organization after Chauncey Billups was arrested in a gambling investigation.

Anthony Edwards had 41 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves rallied in the fourth quarter for a 118-114 season-opening win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

A franchise that has endured more than its share of bad news in the 21st century was dealt another sobering blow Thursday.

Ore., spoke on his local Portland Trail Blazers being impacted by the FBI's gambling probe, which led to the arrest of head coach Chauncey Billups.

Billups became the second known NBA arrest on Thursday morning as part of the FBI's illegal gambling investigation.

Chris Heywood, Billups attorney, said the former Hall of Fame player “is a man of integrity” and planned to “fight these allegations with the same tenacity that marked his 28-year career,” in a statement released to The Oregonian/OregonLive early Thursday evening.