nytimes.com - 6/30/2008
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Based on Joe Dumars’s deft touch as an N.B.A. executive, you might assume he had an M.B.A. His management of the Detroit Pistons has turned them into a powerhouse team that advanced to the last six Eastern Conference finals. Truth is, Dumars, until May, never earned a college degree: life and pro basketball intervened. For more than two decades he was like a lot of other pro athletes in ...
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Joe Dumars fills education void
Full-Court Press —
The New York Times has a column on how Joe Dumars went back to school to earn the degree that he started at McNeese State in the 1980's, before the Detroit Pistons drafted the young guard. June 30, New York Times: Truth is, Dumars, until May, never earned a college degree: life -- and pro basketball -- intervened. For more than two decades he was like a lot of other pro athletes in that he did not seal the college deal. It began to weigh on his conscience. How could he preach the gospel of education to his children? How could he tell young N.B.A. players about the value of an ...
Joe Dumars Proves It's Never Too Late to Go Back to School
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Filed under: Pistons, Eastern, DetroitAny way you measure it, Joe Dumars is a successful man. He won two NBA titles as a player, had the league's annual sportsmanship award named after him, won another title as a general manager and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame. And that's the stuff everyone knows about -- what most people don't know is that for 10 years after retiring as a player he served as CEO and president of a successful automotive supply company he founded. And as a father, he raised a son who just earned a scholarship to play Division I ball. But for all that he's accomplished, there was one thing ...
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