re: Bruhs this isn't good

Monty.

The problem with Karl isn't the lack of playoff success, it's the timing of his potential departure. On the one hand do we really want to have to get a new coach right when AD is ready to contend year in and year out? On the other hand, with a contention ready team you'd have your pick of available coaches, and even some unavailable in the right circumstances a la Doc and the Clippers.

Yea, I said something about that in another thread. I think you are right though. If he elevates this team into contention and then steps down, coaches should be lining up to take the job.

from kevin draper's wojo take-down yesterday, dumars-related:

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But to truly understand how Wojnarowski and his sources operate, there is no better place to look than his relationship with Joe Dumars, who worked as the Detroit Pistons president of basketball operations from 2000 to 2014.

Dumars was very successful for the first half of his executive career, assembling teams that won an NBA Championship and reached six consecutive Eastern Conference Finals. During his final six years in Detroit however—before he “stepped down” instead of being fired—the Pistons were one of the worst teams in the league, largely because of a series of disastrous decisions Dumars made. You would never know about it, though, if you read only Wojnarowski for your Pistons coverage.

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In 2010, the NBA fined Dumars $500,000 for leaking multiple confidential league memos to Wojnarowski, according to multiple sources. This matches the third largest publicly known fine the league has ever handed down. The NBA decided that too many memos were making it into the media, so they conducted a sting operation over several months. They would change a few words or numbers in different team’s copies of otherwise identical memos, so that when the memos leaked they could spot the small differences and trace them back to the leaker. This approach caught Dumars red-handed, as well as an executive from another team who was fined $12,500 for leaking to a draft-focused website. Joe Dumars, the Detroit Pistons, and the NBA all declined to comment on the fine.

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LINK

So good scoops require bad editorials. I guess that would matter if I read Woj for editorial commentary rather than breaking news.