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Sources: Billups, Pistons agree to multi-year deal
ESPN.com news services
Updated: July 6, 2007, 6:33 PM ET
After some miscommunication, Chauncey Billups and the Detroit Pistons have come to an agreement.
ESPN's Ric Bucher reports sources say that Billups has now agreed to multi-year deal with the Pistons, but terms and length of the deal are unknown at this time.
On Wednesday, Billups' agent, Andy Miller, refuted a reports that his client had agreed to a contract that could be five years and worth $60 million.
"This is a vicious rumor," Miller told The Detroit Free Press. "It's entirely untrue. We have not reached an agreement. I don't know what stage we're at. We're having ongoing discussions, and I don't believe that we're on the verge of signing an agreement anytime today by any stretch of the imagination."
On Tuesday, The Associated Press and some Detroit-area media outlets had reported that Billups and the Pistons had agreed to a five-year contract. According to the Associated Press, its source, who requested anonymity because of league rules preventing contract announcements before July 11, said the deal is worth $46 million guaranteed over four years and the fifth year is a team option.
Billups had become an unrestricted free agent last month after opting out of the last year of a six-year contract.
Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations, said shortly after the team was eliminated from the conference finals by the Cleveland Cavaliers that his top priority was re-signing Billups.
The 6-foot-3, 202-pound All-Star said he would prefer to stay with Detroit and expected to be back if the team could match any other team's best offer.
Billups, 30, who played with the Celtics, Denver, Orlando and Minnesota in his first four seasons, was selected the NBA Finals MVP in 2004 when Detroit won the championship. He was an All-Star in each of the next two seasons.
He averaged 17 points and 7.2 assists in 70 games last season and 14.5 points and 5.3 assists over his nine-year career. But Billups struggled in the playoffs each of the past two seasons, and averaged 15.3 points, 3.5 assists and 3.8 turnovers in the Eastern finals against the Cavs.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2928321
and it belong here why?
yup nba forum fo sho
It's a vicious truth.
Most major free agency news goes in the Spurs forum. I'll move what's appropriate but this is fine here.
Well thats good for the Pistons... hopefully they can recover from the post season lost and come back strong next year.
46 million is a steal
good move Dumars.
Probably. Maybe. If you look at Billups' career, he only had a couple good years, didn't he?
a couple? try 7
Check out the stats and tell me if his career as been as gaudy as one would think. Although you are right, his last 5-6 years have been fairly consistent.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas.../players/3174/
He averages .412 FG, 5.3 asst/game, and 14.5 ppg for his career.
He got less than double of Kapono? Ouch. Billups needs a new, more vicious agent.
Probably more that Kapono was wildly overpaid.
Here's another take on Chauncey's deal:
CHAUNCEY'S BACK By DANA GAURUDER Of The Oakland Press AUBURN HILLS - It's finally official. Chauncey Billups has reached a multi-year agreement to remain with the Pistons, his agent Andy Miller confirmed Friday afternoon. "We're ecstatic to come to an agreement with the Pistons," Miller said. "This is where Chauncey wants to finish his career." Billups will sign a five-year, $60.5 million contract. The final year is not guaranteed.. Miller said that the negotations were focused all along with Detroit. "Chauncey told me before the process 'Don't look outside the Pistons. Let's give them every opportunity and go from there,'" Miller said. "They were his first option and no other team was remotely close." Look for more details in Saturday's Oakland Press.
How about Drew Rosenhaus, Oh my bad NFL.
A notable free agent staying with the same damn team. How shocking. And we have other semi-notable free agents going to the Magic, and the Suns to try and win a championship. Worst offseason in NBA history.
With teams getting weaker rather than stronger, this will just help the Spurs get a 60-64 win next season
I don't know if it will be that simple and if we'll ever see Detroit as dominant as it was several years back. The team has chemistry problems among the players and between the players and the coach, if reports are to be believed. The pistons will feel the effects of Big Ben's departure for years to come. Too bad they lost to the Cavs; I was really looking forward to a Spurs-Pistons Finals.
he should be gettin like 50-60m 5 yr deal or somewhere around nashs contract
He struggled in the first part of those 7 years and didnt really break out until 02-03 season. He has sucked balls the past 2 post seasons though. Nonetheless that is the around kind of contract he was going to get with the way the league works. BTW are you spursmania from spursreport? I enjoyed your rants on badly overrating players and teams (saying the spurs wouldnt win a road game in utah was a great line). It tends to be a good luck charm. Keep that going.
60 mil for 5 yrs sounds like a decent contract for both parties, but i do think Billups should atleast insist on a full guaranteed contract, not one with team option for the fifth yr.
As if there was really any doubt.
As soon as the early news leaked out, everyone knew he was staying put.
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