bleacherreport.com - 6/30/2009
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Joe Dumars needs a new deck of cards. For better luck, if nothing else.
The deck from which Dumars has been dealing cards to himself for the past several years must be crooked or stacked against him. Either that, or he’s just simply a bad dealer.
Dumars, the Pistons’ president and GM, drew Blackjack in 2004, when his team upset the vaunted Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. A year later, his card total was 22, as his Pistons lost to the San Antonio Spurs in seven hellish games. ...
mlive.com - 6/30/2009
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AUBURN HILLS - The never-ending carousel of coaches
for the Detroit Pistons continues with the announcement that...
head coach Michael Curry has been fired. "This was a difficult decision to make," said Joe Dumars, Detroit's president of basketball ...
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Pistons fire coach Michael Curry after one season ...
detnews.com - 6/30/2009
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Notebook Jonas Jerebko is a blast from Joe
Dumars' past Chris McCosky / The Detroit News Auburn...
Hills -- A few weeks ago, after working out at the Pistons practice facility for the first time, Jonas Jerebko was invited into president Joe Dumars' ...
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Jonas Jerebko is a blast from Joe Dumars' past | ...
motownstringmusic.com - 7/1/2009
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Bleacher Report - NBA 6/30/2009
And so the coaching carousel continues.
After one disappointing season marred by personnel missteps by the front office and coaching staff, Pistons president Joe Dumars has dismissed Michael Curry from his position as head coach.
"This was a ...
