Amid rumors that a trade could send him from his native Denver to New Jersey, Chauncey Billups missed Monday's practice with a "headache."

Billups has been mentioned in the potential three-team deal that would send teammate Carmelo Anthony to the Nets.

He would prefer to remain in Denver and it was reported over the weekend that the veteran will seek a buyout if he's traded to New Jersey.

League sources told Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports that the Nets are willing to make Billups more comfortable with the trade by paying him the full $14.2 million he's due next season in the final year of his contract rather than buying him out for just $3.7 million this summer.