Report: Pelicans expected to finalize deal with Joe Dumars for VP vacancy
The deal could be done as soon as the end of the week
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – As the Pelicans announced that they are parting ways with lead executive David Griffin after six seasons, a front-runner candidate to fill the vacancy has emerged.
ESPN reports that Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is the Pelicans’ leading candidate to become the Vice President of Basketball Operations. Dumars currently serves that same role in the NBA’s league offices.
Dumars has won two championships as a player (1989, 1990) and one as an executive (2004), all with the Detroit Pistons.
As the lead executive of the Pistons for 14 years, starting in 2000, Dumars’s teams compiled a win-loss record of 595-536.
He was named a league executive in 2022 after three years with Sacramento.
Dumars is a Shreveport native with deep Louisiana ties and played college basketball at McNeese State in Lake Charles.
While major changes are on the horizon for the Pelicans, with a potential Top 5 draft pick coming this summer, questions also surround the fate of head coach Willie Green. ESPN has reported that whoever becomes the franchise’s next lead executive will make that decision.
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