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What Could Have Been if the Pistons hadn't drafted Darko Milicic

 
Let me preface this with the following statement:  Joe Dumars can do no wrong for me, not when he was a player and not as a GM.           When you watch a Pistons home game the camera usually ends up on Dumars, once, maybe twice a game.  The same, cold as ice expression exudes from his face, similar to the expression Doyle Brunson or Phil Ivey exhibit when they’re taking all of your chips.           He remains stoic and calculating in his demeanor, and there’s a quiet confidence about him, the kind that gives you the impression that he’s always five steps ahead of you.  He tells it how it is, doesn’t make trades for the sake of making them, and best of all hasn’t used the “rebuilding” excuse to death the way many of the leagues more incompetent GM’s often do.   I live in Philadelphia, and by my estimation we’ve been “rebuilding” ... (link)

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