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Billups-led Nuggets poised for playoffs (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Chauncey Billups doesn't get mentioned in the MVP debates the way LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant do. He lacks their flash and dash if not their cache. But was any player more valuable to his team than the centerpiece in one of the NBA's most lopsided trade in years? Billups' departure from Detroit fostered the Pistons' unraveling and his arrival in Denver turned the Nuggets from an...