The New Orleans Pelicans have hired Joe Dumars — a former NBA champion as both a player and an executive with the Detroit Pistons — as their executive vice president of basketball operations. Dumars,

It's why Joe Dumars has largely gotten a pass from Detroit Pistons fans and the wider NBA world for drafting Darko Miličić over Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade. It led to a title. When we measure Dumars' legacy as a general manager decades from now,

He's seemingly being hired after the Pelicans executed little to no search to vet other options as well. This will only exacerbate the larger concerns fans have had ever since Tom Benson, the late owner of the New Orleans Saints,