Joe Dumars has been quite busy since he was hired as executive vice president of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans in mid-April.

There’s plenty of work to be do when you take over a franchise coming off a 21-61 season, the second worst record in franchise history.

It's probably why Dumars’ office in the Pelicans' facility still looks barren. A desk. A chair. A shelf with a couple of framed photos of his family. That's it.

There are no reminders of Dumars’ glory days as a player in Detroit when he helped the Pistons win back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990. There isn’t anything to let you know that the Pistons won another title 14 years later when he was in charge as director of basketball operations. There’s nothing in the office that would let you know that Dumars

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