Chauncey Billups expected the Orlando Magic to be one of the teams to make a bid for him when he became a free agent over the summer.

"There were some teams that were talking certain situations, and Orlando was one of them," Billups told A. Sherrod Blakely of MLive.com. "I won't get into the particulars, but they weren't talking to me like they were talking to someone else."

"I know a lot of teams knew from the jump, getting me to leave here wasn't going to be easy," said Billups, who signed a five-year, $60 million deal with Detroit that includes the final year being partially guaranteed. "Like I told you before, this is where I wanted to be from the very beginning of my free agency, up until it was over. That was my whole thing; I wanted to come back here, finish my career here. I want to be a Piston and hopefully win a couple more championships and have my name hanging up there in the arena. It would have taken something really, really special for me to even consider leaving Detroit."