Former Cleveland Cavaliers general manager candidate Chauncey Billups said Tuesday that he wasn't caught off guard by Kyrie Irving's recent trade request.
Appearing on Altitude 950's the Vic Lombardi Show (h/t BSNDenver.com), Billups suggested he had an inkling the situation involving Irving was set to escalate:
"No. It didn't really surprise me. Obviously, I knew. As they were doing their due diligence on me, I was doing the same thing. I knew so much about the situation that the rest of the world doesn't know. But that's unfortunate.