Report: Blazers fire assistant coach over Aldridge reveal

Kim Hughes fired for telling TV station LaMarcus Aldridge was leaving Portland

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Telling an Indiana television station that LaMarcus Aldridge would be leaving the Trail Blazers has cost a Portland assistant coach his job, according to a media report.

Kim Hughes' revealing that information infuriated Trail Blazers officials and led to his dismissal, The Oregonian reports.

"We can confirm Mr. Hughes is no longer with the team," Neil Olshey, Blazers president of basketball operations, told the newspaper Saturday. "It is our policy to otherwise refrain from…