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Re-Signed Billups Never Intended To Leave Pistons
He wasn't going to put them through it again. "This is the first city and the first organization to show me love," Billups said Monday. "They've helped me go from a pretty good player to an elite player, and I wasn't going to break their hearts." Billups spoke before teeing off in his annual charity golf tournament at a joint press conference with Joe Dumars, Detroit's president of basketball operations. It was their first meeting with the media since Billups agreed to a five-year, $60 million contract earlier this month. "You don't get many great players who are also great guys, and when you do, you don't let them go," Dumars said. "We had to go through the process, but we knew it was imperative that we keep him." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Horry Benefited From Rescinded 1994 Trade
When that happened, the trade was rescinded. Everyone got back on a plane, flew home and tried to pretend it never happened. "It probably saved my career," he said. "I came back knowing that the reason they traded me was for not shooting the basketball enough. "So once I came back, they were going to have to tell me to stop shooting." Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Webber Considering Mavs, Pistons And MagicChris Webber's tenure with the Pistons is far from over. Although the team's roster sits at 15 players, the maximum heading into the regular season, the words "Webber" and "Pistons" keep popping up in the same sentences. At his second annual Bada Bling charity event last week in Las Vegas -- which attracted celebrities such as the Pistons' Richard Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, Rasheed Wallace, Tayshaun Prince and Dale Davis, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Carmelo Anthony, rapper Nas and the Isley Brothers -- Slam magazine asked Webber whether he'll re-sign with the Pistons. "I don't know," he said. "I would love to. Right now, I'm thinking about Detroit and Dallas, so you never know. Watch out for (Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw), though. He's trying to get me in L.A." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Pistons Jul 2007 Archive
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Chauncey Billups saw what happened to the Detroit Pistons and their fans when Ben Wallace left last summer for Chicago.
In 1994, the Houston Rockets traded Robert Horry and Matt Bullard to the Detroit Pistons for veteran sharpshooter Sean Elliot. Horry was shocked, Bullard was angry and Elliott was about to flunk a physical because of kidney problems.