<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">AUBURN HILLS -- There will be no parade. No news conference. Not even a formal announcement. That's the way Pistons president Joe Dumars wants it. It fits his style. He knows he isn't going anywhere, and that's enough. On Tuesday, Dumars confirmed that he and team owner Bill Davidson completed a contract extension. Dumars' five-year contract had expired at the end of the season. He would not reveal terms of the new deal. Dumars, who took the reins of a troubled franchise in June 2000, will continue to do his job quietly, striving to keep the Pistons at championship level. "I am looking forward to our continued success and the opportunity to bring another championship to the Detroit Pistons," he said Tuesday. It's no surprise that Dumars is staying. He's arguably the best general manager in professional sports, not just in Detroit. The Pistons know that. Whatever they're paying him, it's worth it. ESPN The Magazine validated the job Dumars has done when it recently named the Pistons the No. 1 sports franchise in the country. In practically no time, Dumars, 42, has turned a bad team -- remember, the Pistons couldn't even give away tickets five seasons ago -- into the envy of owners, GMs and fans. Under his watch, the Pistons won the 2004 NBA championship and advanced to Game 7 of this year's Finals. Dumars has done it without overspending or riding the good fortune of having one of the top five players in the league. After all, that's how most teams in the NBA have won titles the last 10 years. See the Lakers (three) and Spurs (three), who have won six of the last seven titles. Instead, Dumars made shrewd personnel decisions through trades, drafts and free-agent signings. The Pistons had the 19th-highest payroll in the league at $52 million last season. Dumars has built a career as a player and front-office executive with the same recipe -- dogged work and unwavering integrity. He has reached the pinnacle in everything he has touched since being drafted out of McNeese State as the 18th overall pick in 1985. Dumars won two championships as a Pistons player (1989 and 1990). He is only the second player in NBA history to win a championship as a player and an executive. The Lakers' Jerry West also did it. "I believe you treat people the same," Dumars said when asked recently the credo by which he lives and works. "I believe you set standards and you hold to those standards. Dumars' style is low-beam. There's no bravado. It's not that he lacks passion. It's just that it burns inside. "You have to believe in what you're doing," he said. "You have to have a passion for what you're doing. And if you don't, it's hard to make it successful." </div> Source This is a great article outlining Dumar's career as the Pistons' GM thus far.
I'm glad. If Millen got an extension for five years with the Lions, it would be insane for Dumars to not get an extension with the Pistons. It can be seen that Dumars has done a damn good job with the Pistons. He deserves the extension and I'm glad we'll continue to have him as our GM.
