Overview

• After Tuesday’s practice in Tualatin, Chauncey Billups said he will cycle different starters and groupings across Portland’s four preseason games and cautioned against reading them as regular-season indicators.
• Billups plans to expand his regular-season rotation to roughly 10–11 players, moving away from his usual nine-man approach.
• Portland will stagger rest within games rather than sit players entirely; Jrue Holiday will not play the second half against Golden State.
• Steve Kerr intends to play the Warriors’ veterans versus Portland with a slight bump from the opener’s roughly 15-minute limits, according to ESPN’s Anthony Slater.
• The teams meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. PDT in San Francisco, providing a live look at both clubs’ minute-management plans and early chemistry.