According to the Detroit Free Press, Pistons guard Chauncey Billups returned to practice on Wednesday and looks ready to play in the Pistons' game at Houston on Thursday.

"He went through some good hard cuts today," Saunders said, according to the Free Press.

Billups was encouraged as well.

"It felt decent, man," he said, according to the paper. "We didn't scrimmage, but I was able to do pretty much everything, and it felt all right. It felt better today, that's for sure."