”Oh, he never, never interfered,” Dumars said. “I’d call him maybe an hour before we were gonna make a trade and he’d be like, ‘Well, you could’ve called me afterward.’ To me, that spoke about more than just basketball, that he trusted me to do what’s right. For someone to give you that type of freedom, that’s a serious obligation.

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