{"id":2502,"date":"2013-07-16T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/billups-returns-to-motown\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:04:00","slug":"billups-returns-to-motown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/billups-returns-to-motown\/","title":{"rendered":"Billups returns to Motown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Pistons have brought back guard Chauncey Billups.<\/p>\n<p>Terms were not disclosed, but the Detroit Free Press had previously reported the contract to be worth $5 million over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Billups played for Detroit from 2002-2008 and was the NBA Finals MVP when the Pistons beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the spring of 2004. He was dealt to Denver early in the 2008-09 season and has also played for the Knicks and Clippers since leaving the Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to be back in Detroit,&#8221; said Billups at a Tuesday news conference.<\/p>\n<p>In 22 games last season for the Clippers, Billups averaged 8.4 points and 2.2 assists. He played just 20 games in 2011-12 for the Clippers before suffering a torn Achilles tendon in February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado product, who will turn 37 in September, began his NBA career with Boston in the 1997-98 season and also played for Toronto, Denver and Minnesota before first joining the Pistons for the 2002-03 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A five-time All-Star, Billups has averaged 15.4 points, 5.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds over 1,024 NBA regular-season games, including 930 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) &#8211; The Detroit Pistons have brought back guard Chauncey Billups. Terms were not disclosed, but the Detroit Free Press had previously reported the contract to be worth $5 million over two years. Billups played for Detroit from 2002-2008 and was the NBA Finals MVP when the Pistons beat the Los [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[51,140,141],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-pistons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}