Billups resigns with the Pistons for $60,000,000

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Billups gets 5-year, $60M deal to stay  

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Chauncey Billups and the Detroit Pistons agreed on a five-year, $60 million contract Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.

The person, who requested anonymity because of league rules preventing contract announcements before July 11, said the final season 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.

[Bay Area Jat]

Chauncey Billups' agent refuted media reports that his client had agreed to a five-year, $60 million contract.


 
Billups

"This is a vicious rumor," Andy Miller, Billups' agent, 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."

The Associated Press and some Detroit-area media outlets had reported that Billups and the Pistons had agreed to a five-year contract.

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.

The Associated Press contributed

[7even]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

lol@the agent denying it.. still hopin for better offers huh?

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

damn, billups got fucken paid!

[hisairness]

NIK must be imploding.

[GangstaBoogy]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

homie get a girl. you're Lakers obsession is getting real old real quick

[Teddy Roosevelt]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

Wtf are you talking about?

[Sparegeez]

I know I might sound like a dumbass but I always see you guys using this word, MLE. WTF is MLE?

[rik]

MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.

[wcsoldier]

I know I might sound like a dumbass but I always see you guys using this word, MLE. WTF is MLE?

Mid-Level exception i.e you can sign a player or split the amount of money  between several guys for around 5.5 M a year

[7even]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

Wtf are you talking about?

Don't you read the sports section? Laker-Fans have been dreaming about signing Billups with the MLE.


and lol@baby g, I don't have a laker-obsession but this is a laker forum basically. I've been holdin back on you laker-fans for so many months. but it got to the point where I couldnt take it anymore. now you have to deal with it for the rest of your life on wcc.

[Bay Area Jat]

MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.

lmao +1

[Teddy Roosevelt]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

Wtf are you talking about?

Don't you read the sports section? Laker-Fans have been dreaming about signing Billups with the MLE.

Really it was only NIK who said such a thing. Find me 2 more Laker fans who felt the same way.

[7even]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

Wtf are you talking about?

Don't you read the sports section? Laker-Fans have been dreaming about signing Billups with the MLE.

Really it was only NIK who said such a thing. Find me 2 more Laker fans who felt the same way.

Holmes just because I address Laker-Fans I don't automatically address you. Chill the fuck out. Antonio dreamt about it, too. Fact.

[Antonio_]

lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed

Wtf are you talking about?

Don't you read the sports section? Laker-Fans have been dreaming about signing Billups with the MLE.

Really it was only NIK who said such a thing. Find me 2 more Laker fans who felt the same way.

Holmes just because I address Laker-Fans I don't automatically address you. Chill the fuck out. Antonio dreamt about it, too. Fact.

Cause i read there was a chance of us getting him. Wouldn't you dream about getting him if somebody in the States who reads papers 24/7 tells you we've a chance at getting him and places him in his fantasy starting 5 of the next Lakers? I feel like a victim, LOL.