{"id":438093,"date":"2025-04-15T08:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438093"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:19:05","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-fire-david-griffin-joe-dumars-expected-to-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-orleans-pelicans-fire-david-griffin-joe-dumars-expected-to-take-over\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans fire David Griffin; Joe Dumars expected to take over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1616\">The <strong data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1235\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> have <strong data-start=\"1241\" data-end=\"1264\">fired David Griffin<\/strong> after six seasons and a 209-263 record. According to <strong data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1326\">ESPN<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1342\">Joe Dumars<\/strong>, a Louisiana native and Hall of Famer, is the top candidate to become the team\u2019s new lead executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1616\">Injuries and missed playoff opportunities plagued Griffin\u2019s tenure, especially the inability to build around <strong data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1572\">Zion Williamson<\/strong>. Dumars could be finalized by week\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1636\"><em data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1634\">Source: ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six seasons of underachievement, New Orleans is moving on from Griffin. Dumars is the front-runner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-Orleans-Pelicans.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}