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Billups hits 8 3s in Nuggets' romp (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Chauncey Billups settled down his teammates, then stepped up his game. Billups scored 36 points and made a career-best eight 3-pointers in leading Denver to a 113-84 rout of the New Orleans Hornets, the second-biggest blowout in the Nuggets' playoff history. Capitalizing on their first home-court edge in a playoff series in 21 years, the Nuggets nearly bested their previous biggest margin of...