Chauncey Billups, aka "Mr. Big Shot," who brought a lot of great basketball to Detroit, is retiring after 17 years in the NBA, Yahoo Sports reports.
Yahoo reports that Billups became an unrestricted free agent when the Pistons declined the second and final year of a contract option.
"It's just time. I know when it's time," Billups told 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. 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.
"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."