NBA Basketball Lines: Denver at Detroit

Chauncey Billups  plays in  Detroit tonight for the first time since being traded to the Nuggets. (AP Images)"]

Tonight Chauncey Billups returns to The Palace where he ruled for so many seasons, when the Denver Nuggets stop in to face the Detroit Pistons.

It is a good bet that Billups will hear one of the loudest ovations an ex-Detroit player has heard in his first game back in the Motor City.

Trading Billups away for Allen Iverson has not worked so far in Detroit as the Pistons are 29-29 overall and even worse with Iverson, going 22-28 with him in the starting lineup.

Iverson has been out for two games with a back injury and will miss at least a third game tonight.

Can Billups focus on the task at hand and not the fans in the stands when he makes his anticipated return to Detroit?

The Nuggets are 1-5 ATS in the last six meetings in Detroit.

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