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
This is a very disappointing loss for us. We have to win these games and we know that. We slipped up tonight and they played hard. This is a game where we feel we beat ourselves. We've done a good job of not doing that very often this year and when we have done that, we have picked up right away.
This is a very big win, but we won't know just how big for a while. It might be huge, or it might just end up as another victory.
Not to me. All we need to be is healthy going in, and I don't care what happens. As long as we're healthy come the weekend, I'm fine.
He's the best I've ever worked with. He's helped me so many times. We all have the confidence that Rip is going to be fine, especially with Arnie helping him.
I don't think so. It's going to be a long time before we even possibly see each other (in the conference finals), and even if we do, our records will be 0-0.
I don't know if we can play that much better. We don't need to, though. If we can keep playing like this, that's fine.
I don't know how much better we can play. Things are pretty good right now. If it stays this way, I'll take it.
I don't know. I really don't. I just know how good it is to do it in basketball.
But, you know, they apologized. They didn't mean for it to come out like that. They feel bad about it, and we've moved on.
Honestly, we were successful during the regular season, but that stuff really don't matter anymore. It's 0-0, it's all about Sunday night, 7 o'clock, nothing else really matters. The history really doesn't matter.
He's very skilled. Very skilled. He's got a good opportunity. The only thing that I was ever frustrated with was when he was on the floor and he just looked like he didn't care. He looked a little disinterested. At the same time, I understood that as well because he wasn't getting an opportunity to play.
He tore the kid's confidence apart. It was tough for him to recover. ... The kid has unbelievable talent.
He took himself out, but I wanted him to stay in. I wanted him to keep trying to make them. We'd get the stops on the other end. We've got each other's backs.
He's a guy who can score anywhere on the court. He passes. He plays great defense,