Friday, March 27, 2009

Summary

    Believe it or not, all of the things I wrote on this blog are facts, like how Chauncey Billups got traded 6 times and was on one team, the Denver Nuggets, twice and was on 6 different teams and he is still so good.
    I took a lot of my time posting on this blog and I strongly hope you enjoy this blog,It has 7 different posts, they are: early life, history of his career, questions and answers, the perfect free throw, summary,bibliography, and the timeline about his life.  I was inspired by how Chauncey Billups plays and I thought of writing a whole post on it. I used five resources and they were all very helpful. I hope you can use some web sites about Chauncey Billups to learn more about him. My web site has a lot of facts and I guarantee you will learn a lot from this blog.
    I hope you enjoy my blog and I hope you see how much effort I put on this blog, and remember if you want to learn more about fantastic basketball players you can come back to my blog about the great Chauncey Billups. I like him and I hope you can see some of his games, so you can truly see how good he is. You can even watch him play in a real basketball arena if he comes to play against your home team. 

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Bibliography

I have used several web sites and a couple of print resources. Here are the web sites I used often:
http://spiritus.com/
http://jockbio.com/
http://chaunceybillups.com/
My print resources are: the November 10 2008, Sports Illustrated there was a picture of Chauncey Billups making a pass under the rim. My second print recource is the EBSCO article on him which was published in 2005 by Gary Grambling.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Timeline

Information found on spiritus.com

-September 25, 1976: Chauncey Ray Billups was born.
-1994: Billups got a basketball scholarship to the University of Colorado and he accepted
-April 1997: Chauncey Billups was the 3
rd overall pick in the NBA Draft. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics
-Midway through the 1997-98 season: Chauncey was traded to the Toronto Raptors.
-Before the 1998-1999: Billups was traded to the Denver Nuggets
-Midway through the 1998-1999 season: Billups was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves
-Before the 1999-2000 season: Billups was traded to the Orlando Magic but didn't play with them due to a shoulder injury.
-Midway through the 1999-2000 season: Billups was traded to the Detroit Pistons
-2003-2004 season: The Pistons won the NBA championship against the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1, and Billups won NBA finals MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award.
-June 2006: The Pistons gave up a last second shot to the Spurs' Robert Horry in the NBA Finals. The shot clinched the title for the Spurs versus the Pistons 4 games to 3.
-November 3rd, 2008: Chauncey Billups was traded to the Denver Nuggets again.
-March 15th 2009: Chauncey Billups dominated and got a triple-double (three of the following in double digits points, steals, rebounds, assists, blocks) for the first time in his career.