re: New Rumors on Joe Dumars to Pelicans

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Howard Beck ?@HowardBeck 32m32 minutes ago Howard Beck retweeted Kurt Helin Interesting. Exec w/another team told me he'd heard Dumars would be announced as Pelicans president w/in 2 weeks.

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Ya I read the story, NBC guy is just citing WDSU, which is Fletch, who was totally citing Zach Lowe. So Advocate is probably the most reliable because he, apparently, has a source that is not twitter, unlike Fletch lol.

Here is the totality of what Fletch said:

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Some have speculated Loomis could bring Dumars in as a senior executive with Demps remaining as team general manager.

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theadvocate is usaully pretty reliable with this sort of stuff right?

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None of the locals have much of a track record with this stuff. But the Advocate is the official newspaper of the team, so if the team felt the need to crush the story it would make sense to do it through the Advocate.

Not to rant but a lot of this is hackish by the media.

First, this morning around 9:30 a.m., Zach Lowe reports on a rumor about Joe Dumars possibly being added to the Pelicans front office. No issue with that, Lowe puts a ton of qualifiers in his report which reiterate that it is just a rumor.

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new rumors that Joe Dumars could still arrive in some supervisory big-picture role above GM Dell Demps — rumors that don’t appear to be heading anywhere for now.

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Two hours later Fletch writes a report for WDSU entitled "Source: Joe Dumars could join New Orleans Pelicans" which sounds oddly close to those rumors Zach Lowe was talking about, and Fletch clearly alludes to the Zach Lowe piece in his article without mentioning it by name.

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While nothing is imminent, NBA sources have confirmed to WDSU that former Pistons player and executive Joe Dumars could join the New Orleans Pelicans this offseason.

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Some have speculated Loomis could bring Dumars in as a senior executive with Demps remaining as team general manager.

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Around 4:00 the advocate, with a similarly styled headline, basically says the rumors aren't true.

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Sources: Joe Dumars not taking over as Pelicans' head of basketball operations; Monty Williams, Dell Demps likely staying

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Notice they quote "sources" as in more than one person.

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the sources said, the team’s structure would remain the same with Loomis, who in the past has said that his basketball role was “greatly overstated,” overseeing Pelicans General Manger Dell Demps and coach Monty Williams.

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AN HOUR later NBC's national NBA division writes a story entitled

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Report: Pelicans’ front office people meet with Joe Dumars, could have future role

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To make matters worse, that story only references the meetings in 2014 about 5 months ago now, and Fletch's article.

In summary, Fletch is a dipshit.

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Not to rant but a lot of this is hackish by the media.

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There are a handful of true new breakers and thousands of "journalists" on twitter repackaging what they said.

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Nice self promotion job by Dumars and his people?

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That depends on who's the source of Zach Lowe's comments, because theJruth diagnosed the situation accurately, this is a fabrication of the Internet Echo Chamber.

No. There's nothing here. Don't post stupid shite disguising it as "something."