Joe Dumars understood the confusion the NBA world had towards the moves he made this past offseason for the New Orleans Pelicans .

New Orleans was active throughout the 2025 NBA Draft, where they drafted Derik Queen while making trades with their draft picks. This caught many by surprise , as one NBA executive told Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.

“Everyone I talked to after the draft were like, what the f— were they doing?” one Western Conference executive said of the Pelicans' draft trade. “… Queen obviously has some talent and skill and could very well end up being a very good player. Maybe it turns out that it is not that bad of a trade if this kid turns out to be a player.”

Dumars didn't have shock towards the reactions he got from the moves he made. The president of basketball operatio

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