Pistons Considering Options On Jose Calderon, Will Bynum; Billups Also In Mix

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:realgm
 

Pistons Considering Options On Jose Calderon, Will Bynum; Billups Also In Mix
Jul 04, 2013 9:12 PM EDT

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The Detroit Pistons are considering re-signing Jose Calderon and Will Bynum.
 
Both Calderon and Bynum are unrestricted free agents.
 
Calderon recently turned down a contract from Sacramento, while Bynum has garnered interest from the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls.
 
Chauncey Billups is also being considered by the Pistons, who have just three guards under contract – Brandon Knight, Rodney Stuckey and Kim English -- for 2013-14.

 

 
I can't anymore...................................

 

[Pugz]

gimme billups for a year or two and fuck the other two. billups would be the better mentor for bk anyways.

 

[RipCity32]

Sigh....

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Chauncey Billups unlikely to return with Pistons

 
It would be a nice if Chauncey Billups could end his career as a Piston, but don’t expect that to happen.

 
After working relentlessly to come back from an Achilles tear two seasons ago, Billups played and started in just 22 games for the Los Angeles Clippers this season. He averaged 8.4 points per game and shot 40.2% from the field for the playoff-bound team.
 
But since the Clippers were eliminated from the playoffs by the Memphis Grizzlies, they’ve made roster changes, acquiring Jared Dudley, sharpshooter J.J. Redick and resigning All-Star point guard Chris Paul. They also fired coach Vinny Del Negro and replaced him with former Celtics coach Doc Rivers.
That left Billups without a team because Dudley and Redick are shooting guards, plus the team picked up the option on Detroiter Willie Green, another shooting guard. Billups was used as a shooting guard last season.
 
The 36-year-old Billups, who led the Pistons to the 2004 NBA title, had indicated in a tweet from ESPN’s Chris Broussard that he’d like to play two more years.
 
Mr. Big Shot still has enough game left to help a playoff contender, which the Pistons aren’t.
 
Reportedly the Pistons are one of several teams interested in talking to Billups, along with Cleveland.
 
When Billups was traded to Denver, his hometown, for Allen Iverson during the 2008-09 season, a former teammate with knowledge of the situation said the move left Billups bitter that Pistons’ president of basketball operations Joe Dumars would move him — even if it was his hometown.
 
He would be a great benefit to a young point guard like Brandon Knight, but unlike Ben Wallace, who left the team for Chicago and eventually returned, it would take some doing for Billups to return to the organization.