Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups Ray ( born September 25, 1976 in Denver, Colorado) is an American professional basketball player who as point guard with the Detroit Pistons won the NBA championship in 2004. Since the 2013/14 season Billups is back with the Detroit Pistons under contract.
Profile
With 191 cm height and 90 kg body weight, it is considered to be large and strong point guard, who also has a precise distance throw. Through his strong nerves and important Basket success in Crunch Time, he received the nickname " Mr. Big Shot".
Billups is also a good free-throw shooter and is located with a career average of around 89 % in common with Ray Allen on fifth place in the all-time Free Throw Percentage Leaders.
His major achievements include the championship with the Detroit Pistons in 2004 and winning the World Cup with the U.S. in 2010. In the finals in 2004, he was also elected as the MVP. In addition, Billups is a five-time participant in the NBA All-Star Game.
Career
High School
Billups went to the George Washington High School in Denver and was four time All - State First Team player, three-time Colorado Mr. Basketball and two-time Colorado Player of the Year. In 1995 he was elected team in the McDonald 's All- American, but he was unable to attend because of a shoulder injury.
College
However, Billups attended the University of Colorado, she left without a degree because he was already drafted after his second year in the NBA. In Colorado, he had a points average of 18.5 points per game and in the second year he led the Buffaloes to their first victory in the NCAA tournament in 30 years.
Starting difficulties
Billups was drafted in the first round of the 1997 NBA Drafts by the Boston Celtics in third place. Earlier in his career he was transferred several times and played for Toronto to Boston, Denver, Orlando and Minnesota. For the Timberwolves, he had in the NBA 2001-2002 season finally got his breakthrough.
Detroit Pistons (2002-2008)
He could by setting up in 2002, of the Detroit Pistons, where he became a key player. Highlight of his time with the Pistons was winning the NBA championship in 2004 and the award for MVP of the NBA finals series. In 2005 he reached Detroit the finals again, but lost in seven games against the San Antonio Spurs.
In 2008, Billups was also awarded the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award for community involvement. A year later he was awarded the NBA Sportsmanship Award for fair sportsmanship.
Denver Nuggets (2008-2011)
At the beginning of the 2008/09 season the Detroit Pistons Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb exchange for Allen Iverson of the Denver Nuggets. Billups thus returned to his hometown and became an important element in reaching the finals of the Western Conference in his first season with the Nuggets. These were his seventh conference finals in a row - except him managed this far only Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar and Kurt Rambis. In the 2009/10 season was Billups (33) for the oldest player ever aufstellte a new Career High for points per game in a season ( 19.5 ) at this age in the NBA.
On 12 September 2010 Billups became world champion at the World Championships in Turkey with the U.S. national team.
New York Knicks (2011)
On 22 February 2011, Billups was along with Carmelo Anthony, Anthony Carter, Shelden Williams and Renaldo Balkman in exchange for Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Timofey Mozgov, a first round pick and two second- round picks and $ 3 million to the issued New York Knicks. After the 2010/2011 season, Billups was released by the Knicks, via Amnesty Clause to create enough content latitude to commit to Tyson Chandler.
Los Angeles Clippers (2011-2013)
A few days after his dismissal by the Knicks, the Los Angeles Clippers gave a bid for Billups. Since Billups was released by the Amnesty Clause, he was not, as in the usual case, a free agent. Each NBA team except the New York Knicks and teams over the salary cap was entitled to his rights to offer, whether Billups accepts this offer or not. If no bid received, Billups would have become free agent and could negotiate a new (probably more highly doped ) contract with a team of his choice. Billups had threatened in the event that a team secures his rights, he would retire from the NBA. The difference between his salary with the New York Knicks and the commandment of the Los Angeles Clippers is about 10 million USD, and must be paid by the New York Knicks on. On February 6, 2012 tore his left Achilles tendon in a game against the Orlando Magic, which he will miss the rest of the season. He assumes that this injury does not mean the end of his career. After the season Billups extended his contract with the Clippers for another year.
Detroit Pistons (since 2013)
For the 2013/2014 season signed Billups a contract until 2015 with the Detroit Pistons, for which he was already active from 2002 to 2008. There Billups to lead the young team and help lead the franchise back into the field of play-offs.