{"id":410093,"date":"2022-10-25T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=410093"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:53:04","slug":"bad-boys-pistons-star-joe-dumars-famous-for-his-aggressive-and-intimidating-gameplay-set-to-become-executive-vice-president-and-head-of-basketball-operations-for-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/bad-boys-pistons-star-joe-dumars-famous-for-his-aggressive-and-intimidating-gameplay-set-to-become-executive-vice-president-and-head-of-basketball-operations-for-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Boys Pistons Star Joe Dumars, Famous For His Aggressive and Intimidating Gameplay, Set to Become Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations for the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible that Joe Dumars was meant for this position. He was a member of the Detroit Pistons squad known as the Bad Boys, which was intimidating, violent, and physical. He ended up being the first recipient of the NBA&#8217;s sportsmanship award, which is now known as the Joe Dumars Trophy, even during those rough and tumble days. The NBA&#8217;s choice to appoint a former Detroit Pistons Bad Boy to manage league operations, including behavior and punishment, is ironic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XSPIQiFAe6U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you find out that Joe Dumars is the kindest of the Bad Boys, the irony is lost. It&#8217;s not like the league hired Bill Laimbeer or Dennis Rodman. He is now responsible for making sure that players don&#8217;t behave frequently as his former teammates did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"\u201cWho Won the Trade\u201d Calls Rock the Sixers as James Harden Sends Pacers Guard on the Floor and Shimmies After Nailing a Three-Pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/who-won-the-trade-calls-rock-the-sixers-as-james-harden-sends-pacers-guard-on-the-floor-and-shimmies-after-nailing-a-three-pointer-bennedict-mathurin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cWho Won the Trade\u201d Calls Rock the Sixers as James Harden Sends Pacers Guard on the Floor and Shimmies After Nailing a Three-Pointer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In May, Dumars was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations for the NBA, giving him significant authority over all issues pertaining to player punishment for on-court behavior.<\/p>\n<h2>Joe Dumars is now the Head of Basketball Operations for the NBA<\/h2>\n<p>This week marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2022\/10\/22\/joe-dumars-nba-rules-discipline\/10555873002\/\">start<\/a> of Dumars&#8217; first campaign as the NBA&#8217;s executive vice president in charge of basketball operations. In this capacity, he is responsible for <em>&#8220;the development of playing rules and interpretations, conduct and discipline, and policies and procedures relating to the operation of games.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORT: Joe Dumars is now Head of Basketball Operations for the NBA and will \u201coversee the evolution of rules and officiating along with discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceGoodwill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VinceGoodwill<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c3wELRisAn\">https:\/\/t.co\/c3wELRisAn<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9gHqR7zwNL\">pic.twitter.com\/9gHqR7zwNL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1558144465981751296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Joe Dumars is familiar with what it&#8217;s like to be the target of reports about player punishment. He might not have fully lived up to the &#8220;Bad Boy&#8221; reputation that colleagues like Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, Rick Mahorn, Isiah Thomas, and John Salley of the Pistons had acquired.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-410095\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons.png\" alt=\"Detroit Pistons\" width=\"1628\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons.png 1628w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons-1024x691.png 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Bad-Boys-Pistons-1536x1036.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1628px) 100vw, 1628px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But Dumars was obviously not immune to fights; in fact, he received two fines in December 1990 alone for altercations with the Grant twins, the second of which occurred during a holiday game. 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He was a member of the Detroit Pistons squad known as the Bad Boys, which was intimidating, violent, and physical. He ended up being the first recipient of the NBA&#8217;s sportsmanship award, which is now known as the Joe Dumars Trophy, even during those rough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":410094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,51],"tags":[3454],"class_list":["post-410093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-pistons","category-nba","tag-joe-dumars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}