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LOS ANGELES — Ten games into the second Chauncey Billups era with the Nuggets shows a different looking team, a different looking Billups and an organization slowly injecting hope into a fan base that was skeptical when the season started.

There is a transition period to get to know new players and a new system, but Billups said that is taking less time than he anticipated.

"I'm feeling really good," Billups said. "I'm learning a lot about the guys on and off the court. The process has not been as long as I probably thought it would have (taken). I'm not there yet, but it's going a lot faster than I thought."