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Gordon, Villanueva fill holes for Detroit

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

I can't help shaking the feeling that when the Pistons traded Chauncey Billups at the start of last season, it wasn't so they could sign Ben Gordon to replace him. Unfortunately, this is what the free-agent market left the Pistons. Once Detroit determined that Carlos Boozer wasn't worth the money he sought, the team had only two alternatives with its $20 million trove of cap space: Move quickly to sign the next-best players available, or hold the money for next year and try again. This optio ...

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