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
We changed up our scheme a little bit defensively and made them take tougher shots. Once we made our adjustments and changed our scheme a little bit at halftime, we started hitting some shots as well, and our defense picked our offense up, too.
We're trying to get back to our winning ways right. That's more important. We still have three more games.
We will be fine. I guarantee we will be fine.
This was a very big win, but we won't know how big for a while.
Every time we fought back they hit big shots. We have to give them credit.
We wanted nothing but a win, not showboating or any of that. That's just how we play. ... We don't have the personnel to play that other way.
Even though (Brown) loves the rookies he has - because they play extremely hard and he loves anybody who plays hard and plays right - he is at the stage of his coaching career and life where he needs veteran players. Larry loves guys who have been in fights and wars and know what to do every time they're out on the court. That's why I think he'd love to get a guy like Kenyon Martin .
We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane.
To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.
We always knew a championship ring means way more than being an all-star, although we wanted to be all-stars. This is just secondary. It's not going to make me feel the same way as I felt when I was on that big stage in the finals when I won a championship. At the same time, it's going to be up there, because it's going to validate what I always felt about myself.
Did I think we'd get off to 20-3? No, I didn't think that, but we've got some good veterans plus our core is the same.
Dice was huge man, golly, he was huge. He's always capable of that.
Dice is playing so well right now. We depend on him every night to play like a starter.
We feel like we have a special group of guys in here. Any time we have a chance to do something special, to get into those (record) books, that gives people something to remember us by, you know? We want that, man. We want to be a group that people will remember around here for a long time.