Chauncey Billups Returns to Detroit: The Homecoming Dance

Tonight's homecoming is going to be an emotional night for both Chauncey Billups and the Detroit Pistons. It could also get awkward.

Chauncey has been going steady with the best in the Northwest for a little over four months now (which is ages in high-school-relationship time) and things have been going really well for the couple.

Heck, Tammy says they made out at Carmelo's house when his parents were out of town! Apparently it was during a game of "Seven Minutes in Heaven." Chauncey going to wear a No. 7 jersey to commemorate the event.

That's what Tammy says, at least. That's Classic Tammy. She's the school gossip queen.

Meanwhile, the Pistons are taking the breakup very hard. They merely go through the motions with their little rebound fling, Allen Iverson. Everyone in school knows it's not going to last very long because he's going to Free Agency U on July 1. They fight all the time and rumor has it they are taking a break right now.

At least that's what Tammy told me.

So tonight's little homecoming will definitely have its moments of awkwardness, but it will also be exciting for all those who haven't seen Chauncey take the Palace dance floor with that infectious smile of his since this past October. He spent six of his greatest NBA years with Detroit, and they even took a "big step" one time in 2004.

He has an MVP trophy to prove it. Sometimes good things just have to come to an end, though.

I'm absolutely sure Chauncey will receive a standing ovation from the Pistons crowd as he comes through the door with Denver. There will also be whispers and a lot of staring, but one can expect nothing less of the Detroit faithful.

While I will always wish Chauncey the best in the rest of his career, I just hope the Pistons don't lose their cool with Chauncey being back in town.

Chauncey might try and make the Pistons jealous with the way he backs it up and the way he works it with Denver's offense, but Detroit needs to be the bigger man (or is that men?) in this situation. They need to just turn the other cheek, do their thing, and come out as winners when Chauncey comes around.

For added drama: I heard Bill Laimbeer is a chaperone.

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