Vince Ellis

Detroit Free Press

Detroit Pistons great Chauncey Billups this week dropped in on The Vertical Podcast, hosted by veteran NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski.

He touched on a number of topics, including recently dropping off his oldest daughter at college. But of course, the conversation also turned to the Golden State Warriors forming a superteam with Kevin Durant.

The move has Billups, 39, thinking that the Pistons’ 2004 NBA title, which was won without a max-salary player, will never be duplicated.

Billups says the trend of superteams was a topic of conversation with former teammates Rasheed Wallace, Richard Hamilton, Tayshaun Prince and Ben Wallace when Ben's No. 3 jersey was retired in January.

“We often talk on a group text and say things -- and we mean this when we say it -- that what we did will never happen again in the fashion that it happened,” Billups said. “You’re talking about … a lot of throwaways that came together and played great basketball, loved each other, became brothers.

“There was never any fights on our team, never any dissension, never ever, not one time, not one practice, and we competed hard every day. But we got it, so I just think what we did will never happen again. We didn’t have one guy making the max. It was just an anomaly. It really was.”

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Note: Former Pistons 2014 draft pick Spencer Dinwiddie, who was traded to Chicago last month, signed with the Bulls on Thursday. The terms of the contract were not released.

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