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Bum moves, Joe's made a few. But he's been in the front office since 2000 and running things on his own since 2001, and the sheer amount of moves he's made has still left the Pistons in the playoffs for every season he's run things singularly. He's also presided over a title-holder, built solely around his trades and pick-ups.

Dumars started by playing it smart, working with teams in cap hell, leaving things flexible, sometimes acting as if Bird Rights didn't matter and he had an NFL-styled hard cap to work with. The Pistons were in the Eastern Conference finals every year between 2003 and 2008, and it was only the players' fault they didn't win more titles.

He's also screwed up a fair amount. Let the Larry Brown situation linger, let his players walk all over Flip Saunders, drafted Rodney White, drafted Darko Milicic, picked up lower-rung free agents that just didn't work, hired Michael Curry and seemed all too willing to quickly cash in his 2009 cap space for Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva — two nice players who might not even start for Detroit for spells next season.

Could it have been better? Yes, Detroit's run could have been much, much better. Spurs-like, better. But overall, it was still pretty damn good.