{"id":402878,"date":"2011-04-27T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/27\/knicks-bring-back-pg-billups-for-2011-12-ap\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:15:20","slug":"knicks-bring-back-pg-billups-for-2011-12-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/knicks-bring-back-pg-billups-for-2011-12-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks bring back PG Billups for 2011-12 (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.378962536\">\n<p>NEW YORK (AP)\u2014The <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/nyk\/\">New York Knicks<\/a> are bringing <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3174\/\">Chauncey Billups<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3174\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> back for next season.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks announced Wednesday that they are keeping the veteran point guard, deciding his leadership outweighs the savings they would have earned by waiving him this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks would have been obligated to pay Billups only $3.7 million if they cut him within five days after the season. Instead, he will be on the books for $14.2 million next season.<\/p>\n<p>But team president Donnie Walsh says in a statement that Billups is part of a \u201cgreat nucleus\u201d with <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3607\/\">Amare Stoudemire<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3607\/news\">(notes)<\/a><\/span> and <span><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3706\/\">Carmelo Anthony<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3706\/news\">(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> and the Knicks \u201care very happy to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Billups will be 35 in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7a1479ed13764276616.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/sports\/rss\/nba\/SIG=11rrl076c\/*http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/news?slug=ap-knicks-billups\" title=\"Knicks bring back PG Billups for 2011-12 (AP)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knicks bring back PG Billups for 2011-12 (AP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NEW YORK (AP)\u2014The New York Knicks are bringing Chauncey Billups (notes) back for next season. The Knicks announced Wednesday that they are keeping the veteran point guard, deciding his leadership outweighs the savings they would have earned by waiving him this week. The Knicks would have been obligated to pay Billups only $3.7 million if they cut him within five days after the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knicks bring back PG Billups for 2011-12 (AP) - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/27\/knicks-bring-back-pg-billups-for-2011-12-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Knicks bring back PG Billups for 2011-12 (AP) - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NEW YORK (AP)\u2014The New York Knicks are bringing Chauncey Billups (notes) back for next season. 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