Milicic created a brief fi restorm midway through last season when he griped publicly about his endof-the-bench status. A meeting among Milicic, Brown and president of basketball operations Joe Dumars eased those tensions, but Billups revealed that Milicic remained sullen and frustrated by Brown's constant rebukes.
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Related Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here. ALVIN GENTRY Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. PATRICK EWING Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc... DANNY AINGE It's going to take some time. I can't just come in and be like Michael Jordan after three years of n... DARKO MILICIC That's their game. They just play hard. They don't do anything dirty. DARKO MILICIC I'm not 100 percent, but it's going to be better. I have to get better. I've got to work. DARKO MILICIC It's a good feeling to get minutes, and that's why I came here. I was just trying to stop Yao and st... DARKO MILICIC I've got to find that again. Because for these three years, they killed almost everything. I never g... DARKO MILICIC I came here to play basketball. I didn't come to watch. I could have watched the games on TV. That's... DARKO MILICIC I feel good. I want to show how hard I want to play. DARKO MILICIC I'm happy to get another chance to play, to see what I can do. In Detroit, it was horrible for me. A... DARKO MILICIC This is the chance. I feel good about it. Good guys, good players, good city. I want to show Coach h... DARKO MILICIC It's really crazy. The fans, the people are crazy about it. A lot of people, they have no money over... DARKO MILICIC I am very lucky to be around these players and this team. They're great players. They're all winners... DARKO MILICIC That was funny for me, never (getting) a chance to play. That's kind of funny but I just don't remem... DARKO MILICIC That talk is ridiculous. Those are the same people who said Chauncey Billups was a bust. The fact is... JOHN NASH When Joe and Cameron came through last season, it was clear Joe had more natural ability, but Camero... GRAHAM KAVANAGH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's what a great team is all about. When somebody is struggling, somebody else is picking up the ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think it's a little mental fatigue. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much. He tore the kid's confidence apart too much, and it was tough for him to... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think he feels like he has a weight lifted off his shoulders. He's playing freely. He's playing a ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We enjoy the challenge of beating teams on their home turf. The fans will be going crazy and screami... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he's aggressive and he's playing like that, it takes the pressure off everybody. Rip (Richard H... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am definitely going to miss him. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What he meant to his game, not just to this city but to the entire league, with his sportsmanship an... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he gets a tech, he always seems to be a little more in tune with what's going on. We ran his pl... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [Billups seemed confident Friday that he and his teammates would rise to the challenge, and that Wal... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's v... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I remember before I left we had the program really rocking. It was loud when there was a lot of kids... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our defense is going to stay the same. Teams might score a few more points because we might play a l... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much, CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We're just tough, man, CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip S... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm just mad I missed those two free throws. We had a letdown against Cleveland, and we needed to tu... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry is great and made a difference on our team, ... But I think we were great before he got here. ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS There is a good and a bad way to handle everything. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcast... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don'... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Everybody has their own desires. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really does... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions ... NAOMI WOLF I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran t... WILL MCDONOUGH [Before the game, George Steinbrenner reiterated through his spokesman that the season is] still up ... GEORGE STEINBRENNER I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and i... T.S. ELIOT We thought we could do a better job on Billups, but he kept them in the game. Whenever it looked lik... LUKE PEREIRA Billups is not going to run you off a lot of screens. He's kind of a rock-you-to-sleep guy. He's one... CHARLIE BELL And now that tensions have eased in Korea, that is even more true, ZHU RONGJI [Tracy McGrady said publicly what we all knew: He didn't always try his hardest last season when he ... JOHN WEISBROD You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS In 2013, the 76ers hired Sam Hinkie as general manager and president of basketball operations. ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He sp... JIM WALLIS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ... JOYCE CAROL OATES The president addressed that issue when he removed Mr. Brown, and I thank him for that, KATHLEEN BLANCO This is eight games. Midway through the year eight games goes by fast. At the end of the season when... JAMES FRISBEE These are very, very difficult issues. I've heard about a lot of tensions between the parties. There... JOE LOCKHART Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that ... BECKY ALIGADA It was an aim of mine I set midway through last year, so to achieve that is a small goal but very sa... HAYDEN ROULSTON I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certai... PAT BOWLEN He did get frustrated at times. But he kept fighting through it, kept playing hard. And in those gam... BOBBY PETRINO She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When... CHADWICK BOSEMAN He went through therapy. He got himself a personal trainer. He got his legs going. He made back for ... BOBBY MCGEE He was forthcoming, but with that said, he revealed nothing to detectives that's not publicly known.... WAYNE SHELOR
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My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's what a great team is all about. When somebody is struggling, somebody else is picking up the ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think it's a little mental fatigue. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much. He tore the kid's confidence apart too much, and it was tough for him to... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think he feels like he has a weight lifted off his shoulders. He's playing freely. He's playing a ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We enjoy the challenge of beating teams on their home turf. The fans will be going crazy and screami... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he's aggressive and he's playing like that, it takes the pressure off everybody. Rip (Richard H... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am definitely going to miss him. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What he meant to his game, not just to this city but to the entire league, with his sportsmanship an... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he gets a tech, he always seems to be a little more in tune with what's going on. We ran his pl... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [Billups seemed confident Friday that he and his teammates would rise to the challenge, and that Wal... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's v... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I remember before I left we had the program really rocking. It was loud when there was a lot of kids... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our defense is going to stay the same. Teams might score a few more points because we might play a l... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much, CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We're just tough, man, CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip S... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm just mad I missed those two free throws. We had a letdown against Cleveland, and we needed to tu... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry is great and made a difference on our team, ... But I think we were great before he got here. ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS There is a good and a bad way to handle everything. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcast... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don'... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Everybody has their own desires. CHAUNCEY BILLUPS A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really does... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS She pulled away, ... It was unwelcome. She didn't want that. JAMES BILLUPS Airman Witt said he went back to the house because he didn't want to leave any evidence, JAMES BILLUPS There's no comfort I can give, that will ease her pain, and make her see that she's the<... KRISTAN BILLUPS He said he stabbed him in the heart, JAMES BILLUPS He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap. JAMES BILLUPS An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will t... CHAUNCEY DEPEW The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. CHAUNCEY DEPEW I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. CHAUNCEY DEPEW A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. CHAUNCEY DEPEW Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.... CHAUNCEY DEPEW Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - ta... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT Eclectic means you can put anything together as long as it's expensive. CHAUNCEY HOWE My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banque... CHAUNCEY DEPEW It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not lan... CHAUNCEY DEPEW Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.... CHAUNCEY DEPEW The biggest thing I'm going to remember is walking out on the floor in this final game and looking u... CHAUNCEY STACY The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. CHAUNCEY DEPEW I grew up around Bison basketball, and I remember how exciting it was back in the day when we were r... CHAUNCEY STACY Obviously Indiana is a big basketball state and one of the most important sports in our county. It w... CHAUNCEY STACY We're not used to girls hitting jump shots like they do. We can do our best to match them, but tonig... CHAUNCEY STACY One of the reasons why I think we will do well is because we are just now getting enough practice ti... CHAUNCEY SHINES When you face a team that has so many good shooters, you can't afford to give up chances to score. J... CHAUNCEY SHINES Sometimes, when we don't do something right, individuals should be put on the line. But people on th... CHAUNCEY DUKE He knows when to take advantage of mismatches. CHAUNCEY DUKE That was the spark of the game, him coming off the bench and hitting three in a row. CHAUNCEY DUKE I thought we were in it, even when we were down 10 with 3:45 left. We could come in, get three stops... CHAUNCEY DUKE They noticed in the first half that I took only two shots. I think they were hoping I would shoot. CHAUNCEY DUKE It was some bad decisions. That was part of it. Sloppy passes. We just let the game get to us. CHAUNCEY DUKE We just came out sluggish. We just couldn't put the ball in the basket. Southside is a really good t... CHAUNCEY SHINES I'm really enthusiastic about the colleagues that I'll gain in [history and American studies], and f... GEORGE CHAUNCEY She had a lot of business savvy and also a deep conviction that books could intervene when American ... GEORGE CHAUNCEY All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, a... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postul... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and amon... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. CHAUNCEY WRIGHT Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence. CHAUNCEY WRIGHT We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. CHAUNCEY WRIGHT The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. CHAUNCEY DEPEW The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. CHAUNCEY DEPEW Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is k... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them. SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY ... And God, who studies each separate soul,
out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whol... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterd... SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW "So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house?
And a next is under way for little Mr. ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Every tear is answered by a blossom,
Every sigh with songs and laughter blent,
April-blooms up... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
And... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) Every Fern is tucked and set,
'Neath coverlet,
Downy and soft and warm. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) The punctual tide draws up the bay,
With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) All night the thirsty beach has listening lain
With patience dumb,
Counting the slow, said mom... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, ... SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY)