Brown won't have much time to savor the title. He's also coach of the US Olympic team, and soon he will be getting ready for the Athens Games in August.
Chauncey Billups was right. Before Detroit started playing the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals, the sturdy point guard was cocky about the Pistons' chances.
"We're ready to shock the world," Billups told AP on June 5.
Just 10 days later, Billups was chosen as the finals MVP after averaging 21 points and 5.2 assists in the series to lead Detroit over the Lakers for its third championship and first since 1990.
"Yeah baby!" Billups screamed after raising the MVP trophy over his head.
Billups had 14 points and six assists as part of the Pistons' balanced attack in a 100-87 win over Los Angeles in Game 5 on Tuesday night.
Billups, who hasn't been an All-Star during his seven-year career, is the lowest-profile player to be MVP of the finals since Boston's Cedric Maxwell in 1981.
The only other winner since then that wasn't an NBA superstar was Joe Dumars, who led Detroit over the Lakers in the 1989 finals.
Dumars, now the Pistons president of basketball operations, also is the man who gave Billups a place to call home two years ago.
Billups bounced around the league like a basketball after Boston took the former Colorado star third overall in the 1997 draft.
After being on four teams in his first three seasons, Billups became a solid player in Minnesota for two seasons. Then he signed a six-year, US$35 million contract with the Pistons before the 2002-2003 season.
Billups has turned out to be everything Detroit needed, and more. That proved true during the regular season and especially against the Lakers in the finals.
The 6-foot-3, 202-pounder found himself open countless times on pick-and-roll plays, and one-on-one moves against Gary Payton and Derek Fisher over the first four games.
All season, the Lakers seemed to bring out the best in Billups.
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