Chauncey Billups of the Denver Nuggets is the recipient of the Joe Dumars Trophy presented to the 2008-09 NBA Sportsmanship Award winner, the NBA announced today. ?

A 12-year veteran, Billups was one of six divisional winners, which included Boston?s Ray Allen, Detroit?s Antonio McDyess, Golden State?s Ronny Turiaf, San Antonio?s Michael Finley and Washington?s Antawn Jamison.

Billups received 82 first-place votes (2,478 total points) of a possible 336.