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ì Detroit Pistons president Joe Dumars, right, poses with newly re-signed  Chauncey Billups at  a news conference at the Palace in Auburn Hills on July 16, 2013. -  Julian H. Gonzalez DFP https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/2013/07/17/Billups-back-in-Detroit-backcourt-Copy/stories/20130716225 Pistons add depth, ask veteran guard to serve as mentor to Knight Toledo Blade - Jul 17, 2013 5:11 AM AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — For many Detroit Pistons fans, the team’s decline can be traced to that November day in 2008, when they traded Chauncey Billups. Team president Joe Dumars certainly regrets that move, but Billups’ return to the Palace this season is about more than just nostalgia. “Although this is a great feel-good moment, to bring Chauncey back, he and I discussed the fact that this is not just about feel-good,” Dumars said. “This is about his ability to impact the game for us on the court.” The Pistons brought the 36-year-old Billups back on a two-year deal for $2.5 million a ...

Detroit Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars, left, introduces  new player Chauncey Billups, center, alongside coach Rick Carlisle on July 17, 2002. https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/joe-dumars-regrets-trading-chauncey-billups/ SPORTS July 16, 2013 / 4:10 PM EDT / CBS Detroit By Ashley Dunkak @AshleyDunkak AUBURN HILLS (CBS DETROIT) - Even now, five years after being traded away from the Detroit Pistons, point guard Chauncey Billups - now a Piston again - still sounds a little upset about how president of basketball operations Joe Dumars went about the process of dealing him to the Denver Nuggets in 2008. "To be honest with you, at the start, when it first happened, I was hurt," Billups said. " I was hurt by what happened. It wasn't what per se, but it was just kind of how it went down because Joe and I had a really great relationship before. Obviously that kind of bruised the relationship temporarily." For his part, Dumars still regrets the ...

In 1991, when he was a sophomore and halfway through his illustrious career, Rasheed Wallace got to meet Overbrook alum Wilt Chamberlain on the day Wilt returned to 'Brook to be part of the school's first sports HOF class. With his back to the camera is Philly man-about-basketball Sonny Hill, who brought them together.  Photo by Ted Silary. https://www.tedsilary.com/gratz31-0.htm Philadelphia High School Basketball This page includes stories, special lists, record breakdown, scoring breakdown for league games and recaps of postseason games. To provide additions/corrections: tedtee307@yahoo.com . Thanks! Thanks to Tom Taylor for his help. Return to TedSilary.com Home Page RESULTS *Tournament in Johnstown, PA #Tournament in Latrobe, PA +=Tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC @=Showcase Event Gtz Opponent Opp. 2 Phila. Jobs Corps (forfeit) 0 71 *Southern (MD) 44 71 *Roman Catholic 29 54 Franklin 29 56 @Proviso East (IL) 31 62 Olney 39 79 @Redemption (NY) 42 69 #Penn Hills (PA) 27 63 #Lat...

Former NBA and University of North Carolina star Rasheed Wallace directs his Jordan High team in Durham, N.C., last month. “Trying to teach them how to play this game the right way, not how they see it on TV,” Wallace said of his coaching philosophy. CHRIS SEWARD 2 mar 2020 - The Philadelphia Inquirer By Mike Jensen STAFF WRITER Rasheed Wallace carries the lessons learned playing for Bill Ellerbee at Simon Gratz into coaching high school basketball. “Trying to teach them how to play this game the right way, not how they see it on TV."     - Rasheed Wallace DURHAM, N.C. — Rasheed Wallace drove around to the front of the high school, jumped out of his Ford Bronco. “What’s good, old head?” Wallace said to the man stepping out of a car in the parking lot. “You all hungry?” A basketball game had just ended, a game Wallace had coached. Up in the top corner of the Charles E. Jordan High bleachers, across from the opposite bench — as out of the way as you could get and still be i...

18 Apr 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer By Marc Narducci - INQUIRER STAFF WRITER  Contact Marc Narducci at mnarducci@phillynews.com.  Follow @sjnard on Twitter. Rasheed Wallace, who was known on the national level since his freshman basketball season at Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High, has retired for the second time in his NBA career. Slow to recover from a broken left foot, Wallace, 38, retired Wednesday from the New York Knicks. Wallace first retired after the 2010 NBA Finals following his appearance with the Boston Celtics, who lost in seven games to the Los Angeles Lakers. He returned to the NBA this season and appeared in 21 games for the Knicks. Wallace fractured the fifth metatarsal in his foot and underwent surgery on Feb. 28. He returned to action Monday but played just 3 minutes, 50 seconds in a loss to Charlotte. “Due to his injury, he will not be able to play for us during the playoffs,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said in a statement. “We owe this season’s success ...

(Top Photo: Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1687637/2020/03/20/trail-blazers-tales-the-life-and-times-of-covering-the-volatile-rasheed-wallace/ By Jason Quick Mar 20, 2020 When I started covering the Trail Blazers , my first interaction with Rasheed Wallace was not a good one. It was 1999, during the NBA playoffs, and the Trail Blazers were in Salt Lake City to play Utah in the second round. I had not covered the team all season, but I was brought in to beef up the playoff coverage for The Oregonian, and I was writing the fourth- or fifth-most important story of the day or game. Low-guy-on-the-totem-pole stuff. On this day, we were at a practice, and when the media was allowed into the locker room, I sidled up to J.R. Rider for an interview about something mundane like pick-and-roll defense. As I sat next to Rider, I started into my questions, and it wasn’t long into my topics when I paused, distracted. Whizzzzzzzz. Rider chuckled. I proceeded...