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It will move in New Orleans. The regular 2024/25 season has just ended that the Pelicans have just announced the dismissal of David Griffinthe club's sports boss since 2019.
“After carefulness and evaluation, I decided to note David Griffin from his duties as executive vice-president of basketball operations” explains Gayle Benson, the owner. “This decision was difficult to make, but I think it is necessary, at this stage, to bring a new approach to our” front office “and build a culture that will bring lasting success, on and off the field. I undertake to recruit the right person to direct our department of basketball operations and offer an NBA title to our city. This is what our fans deserve. I am very grateful to David for his leadership and numerous contributions to the organization of Pelicans and the community of New Orleans in the past six years. We wish David and his wife, Meredith, as well as their family, the best for the future ”.
Two playoffs in six years
Arrived from Cleveland, where he won the title as GM in 2016, David Griffin had quickly managed to manage the starting desires of Anthony Davis and everything seemed in place to allow the club to rebound.
Because, by receiving Brandon Ingram as part of the transfer of the interior, and with the obtaining of the first choice of Draft during the 2019 vintage, the manager had been able to get his hands on the Zion Williamson phenomenon. Except that the duo will never really take off, the fault of multiple injuries …
In six years, the Pelicans have competed in the playoffs only … twice, for two eliminations in the first round. From now on, Brandon Ingram is at Raptors and if Zion Williamson is still there, the franchise ended in 14th place in the Western Conference, with a sad record of 21 victories for 61 defeats. The disappointment of too much for Gayle Benson.
Hired by David Griffin, the coach Willie Green has very little chance of keeping your post …
Joe Dumars returns home
In the process, ESPN announced that Joe Dumars was in negotiations to resume sports orders from the Louisiana franchise, a state in which he was and where he had gone to high school and then to university. Confirmation fell The next day and “Joe D” must now relaunch a team that arrives at a turning point in his young story.
Former GM of Pistons between 2000 and 2014, the double champion (1989 and 1990) will have had a mixed mandate there. Because there was good, with the 2004 title obtained thanks to the arrivals of Chauncey Billups and Ben Wallace, but there were especially failures, such as the Draft of Darko Milicic in 2003, the arrival of Allen Iverson in 2008, multiple changes of coaches or the arrival of Josh Smith in 2013.
For three years, Joe Dumars was finally the vice-president of the NBA basketball operations.
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