The Trail Blazers, who play faster than most NBA teams, cranked up their game several notches and turned a double-digit deficit into a 12-point lead in the second quarter – a 23-point turnaround. They doused the Clippers’ energetic start and held off a clippers run to lead 60-55.

The game not only gave the Blazers their first win of the season, but it gave Splitter his first career victory as an NBA head coach. For that feat, the players doused the coach with a cold water bottle shower in the locker room. As soon as Splitter told the team to bring it in after his postgame address, the players sprung the celebration on him.

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Tiago Splitter, in his first game as Portland’s interim coach, calls Chauncey Billups’ arrest ‘a tough moment, but I’ve got to do my job.’

The NBA made the announcement just hours before Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups were arrested Thursday morning.

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Splitter, who helped the Spurs win the 2014 NBA championship, takes over for Chauncey Billups who was charged in a sprawling gambling probe.