NEW YORK (TICKER) —Detroit Pistons guard Chauncey Billups on Monday was named the winner of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award.The award, named after the second commissioner of the league, honors an NBA player or coach for outstanding service and dedication to the community.

Billups won the award for his charity work in Detroit and his hometown of Denver.

“It’s a great award,” Billups said Monday. “The thing about doing stuff like that, doing charity work and having a big heart, you never do it for the accolades. You do it for the kids. You try and teach kids a better way than the alternative, which is being in a neighborhood doing bad things and getting bad results. It’s good to be recognized for it, but at the same time, that’s not why you do it.”