Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Ray Billupsis an American retired professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association. A star at the University of Colorado, he was selected third overall in the 1997 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. A five-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA selection, Billups played for the Celtics, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, and Los Angeles Clippers during his NBA career. He won the NBA Finals MVP in 2004...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth25 September 1976
CityDenver, CO
He gets twitching and being nervous. We're like, 'Man, relax, baby. Relax.' He's been like that forever.
We've been together so long and in so many tough situations, we never get rattled. Somebody is always coming up big down the stretch.
When he shoots it like that, we're pretty impossible.
When he's aggressive and he's playing like that, it takes the pressure off everybody. Rip (Richard Hamilton) doesn't have to worry about scoring so many points, I don't either.
When he's aggressive and he's playing like he's playing, it just takes pressure off of everybody. Rip (Hamilton) doesn't have to worry about scoring so many points, I don't have to worry about (it). It just takes pressure off everybody, and we can really spread that offense out. Everybody can get 10, 12, 14, 15 points, and you win going away.
Nah, it is what it is. We'll just start another one.
Nah, I don't think about that at all. I think everyone has changed up by now.
It helped us tremendously. That first game back from a West Coast trip is always difficult to get back into the swing of things and get adjusted to the time zone and all of that. Without that, you don't see us score 38 points in the fourth quarter.
I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that again.
I just didn't want to let him run free, ... He's a tough cover. Every time he puts that ball, he's got a chance to make that shot. He missed some shots. It was good D, but he missed some shots.
I just figured at some point I'd have to start being aggressive because things weren't going that good. We were getting good looks, but we just weren't knocking them down. So I thought I'd try my luck, and it started rolling.
He wouldn't have that. That's not going to happen, unless he can't walk. And I've seen him walk.
It's really not that big of a deal to me. Just having a record like that is, but I wasn't really around, I don't know too much about that baseball thing.
Anytime you have the big guys we have -- we've got five or six shot-blockers, guys that can rebound -- you're going to have a good defense,