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" What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets if you have to do a rebuild. It was more that than Bron. Bron and I have always had an amazing relationship. "

Chauncey Billups

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" I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me 'Smooth.' "

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Growing Up

" I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy. "

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Remember

" That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure. "

" I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I never turned back from that point. That's what made it so sweet to me to win a championship after what I went through. I had to scrap and fight to get through it, and to reach the pinnacle made it even sweeter. "

" It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don't know any of those things. "

" My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball. "

" The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league. "

" I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro. "

" If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I'd rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it's because of those 3s. "

Chauncey Billups

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Well

" Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time. "

" The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process. "

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" For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of very good players. I think Drummond will be a superstar if he continues to work. The media, everyone is behind him. "

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" I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade. "

" I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood. "

" Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it. "

" I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcasting is something I'm looking at long-term. "

" I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun. "

" Everybody has their own desires. "

" People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how much time you have to put in working out. The lifting, the eating habits, trying to change all that so you can be that guy on TV, to be a baller, that's what people don't understand. "

" There is a good and a bad way to handle everything. "

" I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing. "

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