Splitter and general manager Joe Cronin had addressed the team Thursday afternoon after the news broke to relay whatever details and instructions they could. They didn't know much more than the players did at that point. The most salient detail they told the players was simply a mandate: that it wasn't appropriate to contact Billups, who had been arraigned and released on bail Thursday afternoon. "Everyone thinks we might know more than everyone else," Thybulle said. "But it's like Twitter is telling us just as much as anyone else." Thybulle says he and Billups talked every day, sometimes multiple times a day. But it was more than that. "Chauncey just believed in me," the veteran wing said.

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