Arnie Kander's task: Get Chauncey Billups ready for Saturday's game
BY KRISTA JAHNKE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • May 9, 2008

ORLANDO -- As his teammates strapped on basketball shoes and took the
floor at Amway Arena for Thursday's practice, Pistons point guard
Chauncey Billups sat barefoot along the sideline, awaiting word from
strength-and-conditioning coach Arnie Kander about what to do next.

"I trust in him," Billups said, "and listen to everything he says."

With his strained right hamstring, there would be no running or
cutting or playing Thursday. There would, however, be plenty of work.

"He's going to have stuff he's never seen before," Kander said. "He's
going to have a lot of things because he's never had a hamstring
(injury) before. He's going to do a lot of stuff he won't even be able
to spell."

Kander planned an "around-the-clock" treatment plan of electronic
stimulation, massaging, stretching, strengthening, and, as Billups
called it, "Arnie stuff."

"Everything you can imagine, to be honest with you," Billups said. "I
was in there for a while last night. I've been there all day today.
You just do everything you can do."