Rip Misses His Buddy Chauncey

“I lost a brother, and when you come to a team like we did … we pretty much came in as nothing when we first got to Detroit,” Hamilton said. “When you win a championship with somebody … it’s just like the situation when we lost Ben (Wallace). … You lose a brother. You lose a guy you’ve been in the trenches with. You always think that we’re going to play together forever, but in life nothing’s ever forever.”