Joe Dumars Regrets Trading Chauncey Billups
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 ...