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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Teddy Roosevelt on July 03, 2007, 02:54:34 PM
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Billups gets 5-year, $60M deal to stay (http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/6959578)
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.
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Chauncey Billups' agent refuted media reports that his client had agreed to a five-year, $60 million contract.
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"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
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lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed
lol@the agent denying it.. still hopin for better offers huh?
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damn, billups got fucken paid!
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NIK must be imploding.
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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
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lol@laker-fans gettin teary eyes cause their MLE-dream collapsed
Wtf are you talking about?
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I know I might sound like a dumbass but I always see you guys using this word, MLE. WTF is MLE?
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MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.
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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
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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.
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MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.
lmao +1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
yeah Luke will resign July 11th.. I doubt we're gonna resign Mihm, he's asking the MLE, WAY too much...
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MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.
lmao +1
Damn I believed him at first. Fucking Rik always trying to confuse me. Seriously, what does MLE stand for??
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MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.
lmao +1
Damn I believed him at first. Fucking Rik always trying to confuse me. Seriously, what does MLE stand for??
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
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60 000 000 is a lot of money ;D
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
yeah Luke will resign July 11th.. I doubt we're gonna resign Mihm, he's asking the MLE, WAY too much...
The Lakers already signed Steve Blake who will be the starting PG. Farmar will back him up, so I don't see why they hell the Lakers drafted 2 PG's.
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
yeah Luke will resign July 11th.. I doubt we're gonna resign Mihm, he's asking the MLE, WAY too much...
The Lakers already signed Steve Blake who will be the starting PG.
What are you talking about ? We didn't sign Steve Blake.. you can't even sign players yet
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
yeah Luke will resign July 11th.. I doubt we're gonna resign Mihm, he's asking the MLE, WAY too much...
The Lakers already signed Steve Blake who will be the starting PG.
What are you talking about ? We didn't sign Steve Blake.. you can't even sign players yet
They reached an agreement with him. But your right, they didn't actually sign him yet.
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^^^^ Most of the Lakers fans are unrealistic, wasting their time making very unlikely scenario all day which would bring us a All star team type of starting 5 ... It doesn't take me much time to understand our roster will mostly be the same as the 06-07 one... talk is cheap, I just believe in facts.... the only thing we can hope for, is that this team starts to learn how to play D and some players (such as Lamar and Bynum) improve ...
I don't know, homie. I mean i still hope we can make a couple of trades and fix a couple of things. Smush is not probably going to stay with us, so we will have Crittenton, Farmar and Vujacic as our PG's. I can't believe we will start the season with those three. I still hope we can trade Farmar and Vujacic and sign a good PG with the MLE. Other than that if we re-sign Chris Mihm and Luke Walton (i've read we're about to re-sign him: is it official yet?) we will have a pretty good team imho. With a 10+ points per game C and a good PG we can try to advance to the 2nd round of the P.O. and be the crazy bomb of the postseason. But i doubt we will be ready for the title anytime soon.
yeah Luke will resign July 11th.. I doubt we're gonna resign Mihm, he's asking the MLE, WAY too much...
The Lakers already signed Steve Blake who will be the starting PG.
What are you talking about ? We didn't sign Steve Blake.. you can't even sign players yet
They reached an agreement with him. But your right, they didn't actually sign him yet.
Steve Blake? Damn, he's not starting material imho. Good backup player, but we already have tons of backup players!! I was actually hoping for a player like Fisher. He's the perfect guy. If we can get Fisher and re-sign Mihm it will be a pretty decent improvement over the last season.
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I actually would rather have Steve Blake starting in the triangle over Fisher...Blake is an actual distributor who can handle the ball and run an offense, did you watch him with Denver? That said, we have NOT reached any agreement yet with Steve Blake...Luke Walton reached an agreement with us for $30 mill/6 years. Anyone thinking Laker fans expected Billups is retarded...PeACe
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^^^^ At least Fisher knows it, that's what i'm saying. (triangle offence)
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Yea, he knows it, but he was never the best at running it. His tough defense and veteran leadership would definitely be useful though...
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Yea, he knows it, but he was never the best at running it. His tough defense and veteran leadership would definitely be useful though...
Man i like this Crittenton dude. He's the perfect triangle PG for us.
Fisher as a starter, Crittenton as a backup PG.
That's what i'm talking about.
Veteran leadership, defence AND youth, skills, athleticism, court vision, 1 on 1, dunks.
We could trade Farmar (i don't really like him) and Vujacic.
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^^^^ I agree 100%... Phil likes to have "big" guards to run the triangle and Crittenton is strong... plus he has already played in a kind of triangle offense in HS ... and fuck give the MLE to Fish, we need him
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Hell yeah if we do.
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Say no to Full MLE for Fish.
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MLE stands for Money Laundering Establishment.
lmao +1
Damn I believed him at first. Fucking Rik always trying to confuse me. Seriously, what does MLE stand for??
hahaha....what a sucka.