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Billups' 36 lift Nuggets past Hornets in Game 1

Published Apr. 20, 2009 7:35 a.m. ET

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Chauncey Billups settled down his teammates, then stepped up his game.

Billups scored 36 points and sank 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.

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