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The New Orleans Pelicans are looking for someone new to head their basketball operations, and they may be looking towards a face familiar to Detroit Pistons fans.
According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is a “serious frontrunner” to take over basketball operations for the Pelicans. Dumars followed a 14-year career as a Pistons guard with another 14-year stretch as the team’s president of basketball operations, being named NBA Executive of the Year in 2003 and winning an NBA title in 2004.
The Pelicans fired their head of basketball operations David Griffin on Monday after New Orleans finished the season with a 21-61 record, marking the fourth-worst record in the NBA. Griffin had led the team since the 2019-20 season after a successful stint as the basketball head of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2014-19.
Dumars is currently in charge of basketball operations for the NBA, a title he has held since 2022. He also briefly served in the front office for the Sacramento Kings after his stint in the Pistons' front office.
In his 14-year NBA career (all seasons with the Pistons), Dumars was named to six All-Star teams and three All-NBA teams, helping the Pistons to win back-to-back NBA titles in the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons.
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Dumars was also named the MVP of the 1989 NBA Finals as he averaged 27.3 points per game in the Pistons’ four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
The Pistons named Dumars their head of basketball operations after his retirement in 1999, and it didn’t take long for him to find success in the front office. The Pistons made the playoffs in 10 of Dumars’ first 11 seasons at the helm, winning a third NBA title in the 2003-04 season and going back to the finals the very next season.
Dumars stepped down from the Pistons after the 2014 season. In the 11 seasons since Dumars’ departure, Detroit has made the playoffs just three times and has never advanced past the first round.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Joe Dumars a 'serious frontrunner' to take Pelicans basketball ops job
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According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is a “serious frontrunner” to take over basketball operations for the Pelicans. Dumars followed a 14-year career as a Pistons guard with another 14-year stretch as the team’s president of basketball operations, being named NBA Executive of the Year in 2003 and winning an NBA title in 2004.
The Pelicans fired their head of basketball operations David Griffin on Monday after New Orleans finished the season with a 21-61 record, marking the fourth-worst record in the NBA. Griffin had led the team since the 2019-20 season after a successful stint as the basketball head of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2014-19.
Dumars is currently in charge of basketball operations for the NBA, a title he has held since 2022. He also briefly served in the front office for the Sacramento Kings after his stint in the Pistons' front office.
In his 14-year NBA career (all seasons with the Pistons), Dumars was named to six All-Star teams and three All-NBA teams, helping the Pistons to win back-to-back NBA titles in the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons.
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Dumars was also named the MVP of the 1989 NBA Finals as he averaged 27.3 points per game in the Pistons’ four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
The Pistons named Dumars their head of basketball operations after his retirement in 1999, and it didn’t take long for him to find success in the front office. The Pistons made the playoffs in 10 of Dumars’ first 11 seasons at the helm, winning a third NBA title in the 2003-04 season and going back to the finals the very next season.
Dumars stepped down from the Pistons after the 2014 season. In the 11 seasons since Dumars’ departure, Detroit has made the playoffs just three times and has never advanced past the first round.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Joe Dumars a 'serious frontrunner' to take Pelicans basketball ops job
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