Chauncey Billups RUMORS & NEWS

ESPN Los Angeles "Chauncey Billups said Monday that Blake Griffin might be "too nice" and NBA opponents often take advantage of that aspect of the Los Angeles Clippers power forward's personality. Billups, who was an on-set guest on ESPN's "First Take," was reacting to commentary on the program that Griffin is..." June 11

Fox Sports Florida "The Miami Heat went after Chauncey Billups before last season but weren’t able to get him. They soon will have another chance. The veteran point guard will become a free agent July 1. He said he then will consider the Heat. “Of course, I would have interest in Miami, of course,’’ Billups..." June 10

NBA.com "Awards in whatever walk of life typically honor the latest recipients, and if they happen to be named after someone, there occasionally can be some head-scratching and quizzical looks as to who that was and what exactly they did to get a trophy named after them. A bunch of hockey players, for..." June 10

ESPN.com "Chauncey Billups said Monday that Blake Griffin might be "too nice" and NBA opponents often take advantage of that aspect of the Los Angeles Clippers power forward's personality. Billups, who was an on-set guest on ESPN's "First Take," was reacting to commentary on the program that Griffin is..." June 10

Los Angeles Times "The teacher and the student still are in the classroom this late in the season, the lessons of how best to play this game of basketball being taught. Whether it's during a game or at practice or riding the team bus or flying on the Clippers' chartered jet, sage veteran Chauncey Billups has..." April 15

ESPN Los Angeles "Los Angeles Clippers guard Chauncey Billups practiced Monday and is expected to start Tuesday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Clippers forward Caron Butler, who was sidelined for much of Saturday's game against the Memphis Grizzlies with a sore right knee, didn't practice Monday but is..." April 15

ESPN Los Angeles "Los Angeles Clippers guard Chauncey Billups practiced Tuesday for the first time since aggravating his strained right groin on March 27 in a game against the New Orleans Hornets, according to Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro. Billups, who initially suffered the injury March 19 against the..." April 10

ESPN.com "Los Angeles Clippers guard Chauncey Billups said he won't play in Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers, but is hopeful he can return from a nagging groin injury before the end of the regular season. "I'm getting better," Billups said Saturday. "I hope to play before the season's over..." April 07

Clips Nation "The Clippers did a lot of things well on offense against the Bobcats Tuesday night. They made 54% of their field goals, and shot slightly better than that from three point range. (Their free throw shooting was another matter entirely, but we'll ignore that for now.) But what they did especially..." February 27

L.A. Daily News "The Clippers are optimistic guard Chris Paul and Chauncey Billups will play Friday against the Miami Heat. Paul has missed the past eight games with a knee bruise but has been increasing his work level and is moving around much better in recent days. Before Wednesday's game, the Clippers..." February 07

Michigan Live "He may wear a different uniform these days and play his home games more than 2,000 miles away, but The Palace will always be like home to Los Angeles Clippers guard Chauncey Billups. And if Monday night's game is any indication, Detroit Pistons fans will forever consider Billups to be one of..." December 18

Orange County Register "A week after making a surprise return to the starting lineup, Chauncey Billups is back on the bench. Billups is suffering from peroneal tendinitis in his left foot. The injury is not related to his Achilles' tendon, which he ruptured last February. Billups has played in three games this..." December 06

L.A. Daily News "After scoring 22 points on 5-for-15 shooting and adding seven assists in 60 minutes in his first three games of the season, veteran guard Chauncey Billups had to sit out Wednesday's game against the Dallas Mavericks at Staples Center. Billups said his surgically repaired left Achilles tendon..." December 06

Detroit Free Press "Soon, perhaps sooner than anyone dared hope, Chauncey Billups will regain his game and a piece of his identity. The man who was initially reluctant to join the Clippers after they won his rights in an amnesty waiver auction last December can't wait to rejoin a team he liked enough to re-sign..." September 10

Miami Herald "Soon, perhaps sooner than anyone dared hope, Chauncey Billups will regain his game and a piece of his identity. The man who was initially reluctant to join the Clippers after they won his rights in an amnesty waiver auction last December can't wait to rejoin a team he liked enough to re-sign..." September 10

Detroit Free Press "The Lakers have garnered headlines with an off-season that has superstars Steve Nash and Dwight Howard headed to the West Coast. But the other team in Los Angeles, the Clippers, has quietly made some solid moves this summer from giving a five-year extension to franchise cornerstone Blake..." August 21

Los Angeles Times "If there was any doubt that the Clippers remain serious about changing the culture of their franchise, perhaps they put it to rest Thursday. Free-agent guard Jamal Crawford agreed to a contract with the Clippers and the team reached a deal to re-sign veteran Chauncey Billups, according to NBA..." July 06

Grizzly Bear Blues "The Los Angeles Clippers have reached agreements with free agents Jamal Crawford and Chauncey Billups, which now means that, yep, Crawford is no longer on the short-list of free-agent targets for the Memphis Grizzlies. There goes another one! Details: Crawford, an unrestricted free agent..." July 05

Denver Post "There probably were a million places NBA star Chris Paul could be, but Monday he was at Chauncey Billups' basketball camp. "It's great," Paul said. "It's fun (working with kids) and that's why you do camps like this. Chauncey is just like me; he loves kids. I have a son of my own who loves..." June 26

Los Angeles Times "Chauncey Billups is back on the Clippers bench. The savvy veteran sits next to the coaches, watching his teammates with the sharp eye of a player who has been in the league for 14 seasons. When a man is subbed out, he often pulls him aside and offers words of advice. He has told Chris Paul..." March 30

Los Angeles Times "It's a Vinny Del Negro I do not know. He's at a loss for cliches and coach-speak Tuesday over lunch, pausing to take a deep breath every time he mentions Chauncey Billups' name. The veteran guard has been active in a Los Angeles uniform for only 20 games, but Del Negro says, "People have no..." February 08

Los Angeles Times "With his name, Chauncey Billups should be leading Parliament, not fastbreaks. It turns out there is no mystery to the very British-sounding label placed on him at birth. "My mom just liked the sound of it," he says. Clippers fans do too. This is already the season of their dreams, with..." February 02

Denver Post "The Nuggets needed a miracle in the final seconds Sunday night. But Chauncey Billups was playing for the other team. And Tim Tebow was sitting in the front row. Billups, Mr. Big Shot, wouldn't help the Nuggets in his comeback, and Mr. Big Play, Tebow, couldn't help the Nuggets come..." January 30

Los Angeles Times "Chauncey Billups was back home, back where he went to high school, in the same state where he went to college, at the University of Colorado, back facing the Denver Nuggets team that traded him twice. And he put on a show, scoring a season-high 32 points on 11-for-20 shooting, six for 12 from..." January 30

Los Angeles Times "The Clippers were short-handed Monday, playing without maestro point guard Chris Paul and key reserve Mo Williams. They were playing the first in a series of back-to-back-to-back games, and the first of five games in seven days, knowing this was a taxing part of their schedule. So what do..." January 17

Los Angeles Times "Chauncey Billups, in a clear, baritone voice, assured the Clippers and their fans that he was no longer uncertain of where he wanted to play. "I'm all in," Billups said Friday at a news conference at the team's practice facility. Billups admitted he underwent some soul-searching before he..." December 17

Detroit Free Press "Former Piston Dennis Rodman was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday. Many consider this a "win" for role players and guys with resumes that wouldn't make them automatic for the Hall. Another ex-Piston may fit into that category. The 2004 NBA Finals MVP Chauncey Billups, who got..." August 15

Detroit Free Press "When Chauncey Billups was watching the NBA Finals, he might as well have been checking out a 2004 highlight video. Team beats talent. That's how many dubbed Dallas' triumph over star-studded Miami and how many saw Detroit's 2004 triumph over the Lakers, who featured Hall of Fame-bound Shaquille..." July 11

Bergen Record "The cost is high, but the alternatives were low, so Chauncey Billups will return to the Knicks. The 34-year-old point guard, plagued by injuries during his two months with the team, had his $14.2 million option for next season picked up Wednesday. That puts the Knicks over the current salary..." April 28

New York Post "Chauncey Billups is back in the fold for the Knicks next season, but there is no guarantee he will finish the year with them. Yesterday's decision not to buy out Billups, despite his nightmarish, injury-wrecked playoffs, is a no-brainer on several levels. Billups' trade value could be..." April 28

Bergen Record "Amar'e Stoudemire was the first to endorse Chauncey Billups' return. Then Carmelo Anthony did, too, saying, "I'll be sad" if Billups isn't back. When the two faces of the Knicks' franchise – and the only members of the current team sure to return – say they want you back, that's a good sign..." April 27

New York Daily News "Chauncey Billups wants his $14 million and the chance to run the Knicks for a full season, probably in that order. Amar'e Stoudemire endorsed the return of both Donnie Walsh and Mike D'Antoni, while Carmelo Anthony sounded like he won't lose sleep worrying about the head coach. Monday, the..." April 26

New York Post "Logic decrees the vital judgments facing the Knicks by Friday regarding Chauncey Billups' 2011-12 salary option and whether to keep Mike D'Antoni on retainer for the final guaranteed year of his contract are Donnie Walsh's to make, if not entirely alone. If not, should the team president, whose..." April 26

New York Daily News "Memo to Melo and Amar'e: Fellas, you have it the other way around. You got swept. But if you listened to Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire Monday, you would have thought they had just swept Boston's Big Three and were gearing up for LeBron James and the Heat in the second round of the..." April 26

New York Post "Chauncey Billups is unsatisfied with how the Knicks' season ended. Not making it past the first round? Not coming close to a championship? That doesn't fulfill him. "Just getting swept in the first round, I don't do this. This is not fine with me," Billups said yesterday. "I don't come into..." April 26

New York Post "Chauncey Billups is anxious to experience being part of the Knicks -- and seeing what they can do -- for a full season. Billups, who missed the final three-plus games of the Celtics series with a strained tendon in his left knee, said yesterday he hopes the Knicks pick up his $14 million option..." April 25

Bergen Record "Chauncey Billups knew Friday morning he couldn't go in Game 3, and not only doesn't know if he can play in Sunday's Game 4, but isn't certain he can return from his left knee injury however long the series goes. "I think it's maybe a chance, but I don't know that to be 100 percent true," he..." April 23

New York Post "Chauncey Billups didn't play last night for the Knicks, and his availability for tomorrow's do-or-die Game 4 is in doubt, too. "Obviously if it was close, I would play," Billups said before the Knicks lost, 113-96, at the Garden last night to fall into a 3-0 hole to the Celtics in their..." April 23

New York Post "Chauncey Billups' left knee was improving but still sore yesterday, and the Knicks point guard doesn't know if he will be able to suit up tonight. "It's sore. [Wednesday's cortisone shot] made it probably a little sorer, more sore [than yesterday]. But that was to be expected," Billups said...." April 22

Boston Globe "Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni is an eternal optimist — almost to a fault, he acknowledges. Despite being down, two games to none, to the Celtics in the opening round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, D'Antoni says his team isn't panicking. They're actually entering tonight's game as confident as..." April 22

New York Daily News "Chauncey Billups is doing everything in his power to play again in the series, sooner than later. The Daily News has learned that Billups, who missed Tuesday's Game 2 against Boston with a strained left knee, had fluid removed from his knee and received a cortisone shot in an attempt to play in..." April 22

New York Post "It's unknown if either Amar'e Stoudemire or Chauncey Billups will return for Game 3 tomorrow, which means the Knicks could face rotation issues. In the Knicks' 96-93 Game 2 loss to the Celtics on Tuesday, they played without Anthony or Stoudemire for the final 27:22. So coach Mike D'Antoni has..." April 21

New York Daily News "When this remarkable night was over at the new Boston Garden, Amar'e Stoudemire couldn't bend down and put on his pants. The Knicks star needed a ballboy to help him get dressed, as his grunts and groans could be heard nearby in a devastated locker room. Across the room there was Jared..." April 20

SI.com "Will Chauncey Billups play on Tuesday? Mike D'Antoni cracked a sly smile when he was asked the question. "What are we saying about him?" the coach asked Knicks P.R. chief Jonathan Supranowitz after practice on Monday. "Questionable," Supranowitz said. "Questionable," echoed D'Antoni...." April 19