Nuggets trade Allen Iverson to Pistons for Chauncey Billups, McDyess

[EricForman]

AI is more of a shooting guard who gets points based on how many shots he takes. I doubt he will be running the Pistons Offense.

Rip Hamilton is cemented in as shooting guard.

Stuckey is probably going to pick up 35+ minutes a night with the trade.



So where is AI's place?

i think this could work. AI definitely fits with Pistons more than the Nuggets.

But they still got no shot in hell of winning it all though.

[brandonislegend]

they never should have traded andre miller, but now they have a better version of him. Expect real big things from melo.

[Rekindled]

i think this could work. AI definitely fits with Pistons more than the Nuggets.

But they still got no shot in hell of winning it all though.

I dont think this will be the last trade for the pistons.

[SCdac]

So what, the Nuggets essentially traded Andre Miller for Chauncey Billups?

I'm leaving out other players, maybe draft picks/money, but I'm kind of suprised Denver didn't opt to keep Iverson till he expires.

Iverson in Detroit will be, well, kind of weird, but you have to think he'll come out "motivated", maybe even ready to tone down a bit for the sake of the team... but is that his game?

[InspiredLebowski]

Well I love the move by the Denver front office, if Billups plays to his talent level then he's a perfect fit for what Denver wants and needs to do as he's a real pg, can defend and probably most importantly shoot the 3.

1 thing that people fail to realize, is that as much as people say Chauncey was expendable because of Stuckey, AI is probably even more expendable because of JR and basically the numerous other scorers Denver has and Chauncey doesn't really suck at that either

I'm not saying Billups is a horrible player, far, far from it. But his deal is going to hurt, starting very soon. It just doesn't make sense after the moves they'd made to cut salary in the offseason, they were poised to have AI's massive deal coming off the books, now they bring in a contract I hate. All goes well, Denver does what, 2nd round? They just can't seem to pick a direction.

[catzhernandez]

Man, if only Denver hadn't of let go of Camby, they'd be in a much better situation, especially if Dyess retires or wants to be waived.

Camby
Martin
Melo
Smith
Billups
--
Nene
Anderson
Kleiza
Balkman
Carter


is dangerous.

[bdreason]

Interesting trade.

Pistons get a little more explosive on offense.

Nuggets get some needed leadership at the point, as well as another bigman to help Nene.


Melo and JR Smith fantasy owners should be happy.

[catzhernandez]

I dont think this will be the last trade for the pistons.

Definitely not.

[EricForman]

I dont think this will be the last trade for the pistons.

Unless the next trade will bring in someone who will take the best player/#1 option title from Iverson (and knock him to the #2 spot), the Pistons still aint gonna win it all. No team with Iverson as the #1 option/best player will win it all.

I'm not hating on AI. But really... undersized shoot-first guard ain't the right foundation to build a winning team. Especially at Iverson's age. Right now he's not even a top five guard in the league.

[Wiiner]

Lets hope the future trades make more sense.

[bdreason]

So what, the Nuggets essentially traded Andre Miller for Chauncey Billups?

I'm leaving out other players, maybe draft picks/money, but I'm kind of suprised Denver didn't opt to keep Iverson till he expires.

Iverson in Detroit will be, well, kind of weird, but you have to think he'll come out "motivated", maybe even ready to tone down a bit for the sake of the team... but is that his game?

Well, the thing is, the Pistons can use AI's scoring. The Pistons also lacked someone who could penetrate consistantly and break down the defense. Look for RIP's and Tayshaun's numbers to increase with AI breaking down defenses and kicking it out.

[chocolatethunder]

A.i will be the Starting PG .... he now actually has players how he can FULLY trust ..... Rip and Prince, they demand respect from any player including iverson .... member A.i avgs like 6 - 7 apg ..... but as for Iverson and Rasheed LOL WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS .... BOTH ARE KNUCKLE HEADS or at least Iverson was .... Rasheed still is and always will be !

When will the excuses stop? What's wrong w/Melo and everyone else in Denver?

[SHEED_ gangsta]

how so? they were 6 games short (hypothectially speaking) last year?. Iverson is much better than Billups on offense how many points did they lose by in game six? 10 11? AI scores close to 30 points per game esspecailly in the playoffs who knows ????

[bballnoob]

I'm not saying Billups is a horrible player, far, far from it. But his deal is going to hurt, starting very soon. It just doesn't make sense after the moves they'd made to cut salary in the offseason, they were poised to have AI's massive deal coming off the books, now they bring in a contract I hate. All goes well, Denver does what, 2nd round? They just can't seem to pick a direction.

Agreed. Defeats the purpose of the Camby deal.

Better move for Detroit IMO. They aren't in a position to be knocking of Boston/LA so might as well begin retooling now with the cap room. Also, Iverson brings a different dimension of offense to the Pistons. He can attack the paint as opposed to the more jumpshooting oriented Pistons before. Yeah he's inefficient as hell but there's more flexibility at least for the offense.

[insidehoops]

The trade is official now

http://www.insidehoops.com/iverson-b...e-110308.shtml