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Sports of The Times - Teaching by Doing in the N.B.A.

Full-Court Press - A Detroit Pistons Blog found this 6/30/2008 on nytimes.com

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 ...