The Detroit Pistons on Monday shook the NBA to get to the base stellar Allen Iverson in an exchange with the Denver Nuggets. Detroit broke off from Chauncey Billups, most valuable player in the NBA Finals, whom the team won in 2004, plus Antonio McDyess, their best alternate, and the prospectus Cheikh Samb.
Just consider that this was the right time to change the team, said the president of sports operations for the Pistons, Joe Dumars, to The Associated Press. Iverson gives us a dimension we have not been here, and we think that really helps us.
Iverson is in the final year of his contract and earn $ 20.8 million this season. It could debut with the Pistons on Wednesday night in Toronto.
He was very excited about the exchange, told the AP Leon Rose, Iverson agent.
Billups is the second year of a contract for four, with a guaranteed salary of $ 46 million and a club option for 14 million more for a fifth year. The Pistons kept McDyess out of the market for free agents to give him a contract extension for two years and $ 13.5 million, and would like to have it back if the Nuggets, a team that cuts costs, terminate his contract.
Detroit fraguaba long after succumbing to modify its payroll for the third year in the final round of the Eastern Conference, but could not make a significant transaction.
Now, after two games in the season, the Pistons managed to realize an exchange of impact to secure the services of Iverson, winning once as the most valuable player in the league.
The Pistons on Monday to visiting Charlotte. The Bobcats were led by Larry Brown, the coach who went to Billups and the Pistons to the championship in 2004.
Joe knows what he does, and I'm happy for the return of Chauncey to Denver, his family is here, said Brown.
Billups will play with his hometown team, while McDyess will return the computer on which he was part between 1995-97 and 1998-02.
