Clips claim Chauncey Billups off waivers

Chalmers' role grows as Clips claim BillupsClippers claim Chauncey Billups off waivers

As Chauncey Billups prepares to have his name entered into the NBA’s amnesty waiver wire, he has a message for teams considering putting in a bid to secure him for the rest of the season: You’ll regret it.

 

 

He wants the freedom of free agency to choose a contender, Billups says. As one of the game’s great leaders, and gentlemen, Billups warns that player will be a distant memory should a team claim him off the amnesty waiver wire.
“I’m tired of being the glue guy,” Billups tell media on Saturday afternoon. “I’m tired of being viewed as the good guy. 

“I want my freedom. My goal is to control my own destiny. And as you’ve seen in my career, I’ve never been in a position to do that. I know some teams out there are saying, ‘Oh, Chauncey will be great in mentoring’ and I’m tired of that. 

 

"If I get claimed by team I dont want to play for, I would absolutely consider retirment," Billups told to media after the New York Knicks waived Billups under the new amnesty caluse.
Billups, 35, averaged 16.8 points last season, which was split between the Nuggets and the Knicks.
The Los Angeles Clippers did manage to acquire a point guard even after the collapse of their trade for Chris Paul by unexpectedly claiming Chauncey Billups off waivers.
 The league's 30 teams were notified shortly after 6 p.m. ET on Monday that the Clippers had lodged the winning waiver bid for Billups, who was released Friday by the New York Knicks through the amnesty clause in the NBA's new labor agreement.

 

One source with knowledge of the deal told to media that the Clippers' winning bid to land Billups in the waiver auction was just over $2 million, meaning that the Knicks will still have to pay out the remaining balance of nearly $12 million from Billups' $14.2 million salary this season.

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Michelle Pfeiffer's 'New Year's Eve' leads Friday

Zac Efron dishes on flirting with Michelle Pfeiffer in 'New Year's Eve'

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983). Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work. She received six consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama award in 1990 for The Fabulous Baker Boys. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dangerous Liaisons, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Love Field, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for the same films.
She born April 29, 1958

 Her performances in the films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Russia House (1990), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Love Field (1992), Batman Returns (1992), and The Age of Innocence (1993).

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6, 2007. The star is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard and is recognised as STAR 2,345.

Zac Efron and Michelle Pfeiffer share more than a day together in their new film "New Year's Eve," the pair also shares a kiss and the actors talked to OnTheRedCarpet.com about being paired up.

My little brother's getting a little bit older, so now we can go off and have our own adventures, away from my parents. I want to take him out into the world and maybe travel, maybe go back-packing. I also want to do that with my dad, be Bear Grylls it out in the wilderness somewhere... and then take a trip with my mom. I just want to spend more time with my family.
Score another win for splashy ensemble cast rom-coms. "New Year's Eve," the New York-set love fest starring -- among others -- Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert DeNiro, Halle Berry, Cary Elwes and Alyssa Milano -- raked in a respectable $5 million in ticket sales Friday (Dec. 9) to open the weekend box office.

Will "New Year's Eve" hold on to the top spot for the entire weekend? We'll let you know when we know.

A life is hopefully, a long time and we have all sorts of different parts of our personalities that respond to things," Pfeiffer said. "Maybe that's why I became an actress, because I have so many interests. I want to be a neuroscientist and I'm always like, 'Is it too late for me to go back to school?' The answer is yes, but I think there's a little bit of Ingrid in everyone.

Meanwhile, Efron's character's life was changed by one person in a day, which, the 24-year-old actor joked, is not that far-off from his real-life time with Pfeiffer.