Around the time Chauncey Billups led the Detroit Pistons to the 2004 NBA title, because he was a heady point guard and because this is the NBA, he was unofficially anointed as The NBA's Next Great Coach. Billups, who was the lead guard on a Pistons team that would make the next four Eastern Conference finals following that championship, parlayed his knack for getting everything right into a lasting NBA career that ended last season at age 37. Chauncey's lain low since then, but according to a report from the Denver Post , the 2004 Finals MVP could have had a choice seat on the Minnesota Timberwolves bench this season, with the assurance that he'd be able to lead those same Timberwolves as head coach starting in 2015-16. One problem. The Timberwolves were expected to have the NBA's worst record this season by most prior to the campaign, and they'll finish 2014-15 with that designation. Billups didn't want to be the scapegoat for that expecting lashing. From Mark Kiszla at the Denver Post : If his goal was the daunting task of coaching a bad NBA team, Billups told me Tuesday he could already be set as the lead man on the Minnesota bench for next season. Flip Saunders tried to entice...