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
It took us a while, but we got it going. It's tough when you haven't played in a week.
It takes a while -- a long time, because we have so many different sets, options. It's not just the regular old sets that every NBA team runs. We run a lot of stuff. It's kind of complicated.
It went kind of down hill. They got some confidence going and got back into the game. They came out victorious.
They called the same thing that got Rip thrown out of the game. They called the same exact thing, same ref. I don't understand.
The fourth quarter was kind of fun. It was a shootout.
This is my first time, so I don't know how I would have felt if I made it four years ago as opposed to now. But the road I traveled was much tougher than a lot of these guys to make it to this game. It's special to me either way. It's a special weekend.
All we need to do is be healthy going in (to the playoffs). I don't care what happens Wednesday, as long we're healthy come the weekend, we're fine.
I welcome it, I welcome it. I let everybody else talk, I'm not going to talk about it.
I want to win the game, don't get me wrong. But mostly, I am just trying to stay healthy. That's the most important thing right now; that and trying to lock up that home-court advantage.
I was just trying to play solid D, no reaching, no poking. When they switched off a big man, keep my hands up, try to front. Little stuff like that, but it didn't end up working.
I think they're playing well as a unit... they're tough when everybody can contribute like that. You have to give them credit.
It's nothing. Nothing really, just trying to win.
For me, it was like, whatever happens, just let it happen. I was tired of it. We was holding out hope that he would be back, but what can you do? I wish all that wasn't circulating when we was trying to win a championship, you know what I'm saying, if it had just happened at the end of the season, but it didn't really affect us.
For me, after chasing him around the court, I wanted to make him play defense, too.