Former Pistons shooting guard, Chauncey Billups, announced his retirement Tuesday, September 9, 2014 after 17 seasons in the NBA, telling Yahoo! Sports: “My mind and my desire is still strong. I just can’t ignore the fact that I haven’t been healthy for three years.”
Photo shows Chauncey Billups who announced his retirement on Sept. 9, 2014.
“It’s just time. I know when it’s time,” Billups told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday. “My mind and my desire is still strong. I just can’t ignore the fact that I haven’t been healthy for three years. I can try again and get to a point where I think I can go, but I just can’t sustain. Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that’s when you kind of know it’s that time. Source: ESPN NBA.
“It’s just time. I’m happy, excited. The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.”
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Billups, 37, played this past season for the Detroit Pistons, who announced in June that they wouldn’t pick up the team option on his contract for 2014-15.
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