Portland Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts has received a contract extension from the team.
The Blazers reached the Western Conference Finals this season for the first time since 2000.
Neil Olshey just broke news: The Blazers have given coach Terry Stotts a contract extension. It was completed about 20 minutes ago.
— Joe Freeman (@BlazerFreeman) May 21, 2019
Stotts has been with the Blazers since 2012. He has a regular season record of 440-417 and a playoff mark of 20-36. There were whispers that the Blazers were going to fire Stotts last season after Portland was swept by the New Orleans Pelicans in the first round of the playoffs, but ownership decided to stick behind Stotts and it paid off this season.
The players on the Blazers love Stotts. They play hard for him every single night. Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum have spoken openly about how Stotts trusts them and lets them play their game no matter what.
Portland's season didn't end the way the team wanted it to, but it was still a successful season. Getting to the Western Conference Finals is no easy task. Portland had to deal with a lot of adversity this season, too. The death of owner Paul Allen at the beginning of the season and then the gruesome leg injury big man Jusuf Nurkic suffered were tough blows for the organization.
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