Billups isn’t ready to sit … but should he?

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Memorial Day Mini-Bullets
Published 5/26/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
Happy Memorial Day. Going to be some light posting today. But in the meantime: New thing teams should, apparently, be telling rookies: If, during the off-season, you want to drink Courvoisier on ice, stand on the porch, stand in the backyard, stand in the living room ... but do not stand on the sidewalk. What happens next may make people forget how incredibly hard you played all year. Kobe Bryant fake-jumping over a swimming pool of snakes in the name of selling sneakers. Much more impressive to me are the people who actually get in that pool. Following the NBA from Shanghai. Darryl Howerton writes: "In the ...

Billups On a Leash in Game 4
Published 5/26/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... to make sure he can do the things he can do," Saunders said. "At this point, you've got to throw everything out the window and just lay it out on the line." While Billups struggled to score six points in 27 minutes in Game 3, [rookie Rodney] Stuckey scored 17. Billups also was a negative-25 in the plus/minus rating. Stuckey was one of two Pistons who finished the game in the positive, at plus-three. At Detroit Bad Boys, our own Matt Watson is amiable to restricting Billups if Billups won't restrict himself. I don't want to ...

Billups Will Play On
Published 5/26/2008 at CelticsBlog
Detroit Bad Boys reports that Billups will continue to play, even if that isn't the best idea: As much as I d like to pretend otherwise, it s officially time to ponder whether Chauncey Billups is healthy enough to make any kind of sustained impact in this series. I thought he turned a corner in Game 2, but in hindsight it seems more likely that a) Game 2 was a mirage; b) he aggravated the injury in Game 2; or c) some combination of above. Whatever the case, Billups is intent is playing on. busy ...

Game Four - 2008 Eastern Conference Finals
Published 5/26/2008 by Natalie Sitto (noreply@blogger.com) at Need4Sheed.com
... I was thinking about the whole situation during game three when Saunders substituted Stuckey for Billups late in the game when Rodney was clearly sparking the team. I'm not the only one who hope Billups gets shut down if he plays the same in Game 4 as he did in Game 3. ...