Dumars says Pistons will shed
'Bad Boys' image for next season
By BILL BARNARD
Associated Press Basketball Writer
NEW YORK -- Joe Dumars
said the Detroit Pistons are going
to turn all the "Bad Boys" T-shirts
* into collectors items.
We want to get away from
being the Bad Boys," Dumars said
Thursday after accepting the NBA
Finals' Most Valuable Player tro
phy and a new Jeep Cherokee
from Sport Magazine.
"Now that Rick Mahorn is gone,
the Bad Boys are gone. When you
lose a member of a team, you are
never that team anymore. We
decided on the way to the White
House that without Rick, we can't
be the Bad Boys," Dumars said.
Mahorn, a 6-foot-10 forward
who cultivated the Bad Boys
image, was taken by Minnesota in
the expansion draft last week, just
two days after the Pistons com
pleted a four-game sweep of the
Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA
Finals.
"It won't be easy without Rick,"
Dumars said. "He gave us things
that were intangible. He got other
teams frustrated and ready to fight
instead of ready to play."
Dumars, the most soft-spoken
and modest of the Pistons, said he
held the Pistons' outlaw image at
arm's length.
'1 was never really a part of the
Bad Boys image, but it never
bothered me," he said. "Not all of
the Oakland Raiders were bad
guys, and not all of the Los Ange
les Lakers were show time."
Dumars, an NBA All-Defensive
team selection, blossomed as a
shooter in the finals. After shoot
ing 37 percent from the field in
the Eastern Conference Finals
against Chicago, Dumars made 38
of 66 shots -- 57.6 percent --
against the Lakers, averaging 27.3
points in four games.
"This is the biggest honor I've
ever had," he said. "I've always
tried to be a good person, and to
have something like this happen
to you makes it all worthwhile."
Dumars, whose regular-season
scoring average in 1988-89 was
17.6 and whose career mark is
* 14.1, said Coach Chuck Daly
probably has more control about
the future focus of his game than
_ he has himself .
"It's not up to me to change my
game," Dumars said. "Chuck has a
lot to say about it. We've had a lot
of scorers in Detroit the last few
years ? Isiah Thomas, Kelly
Tripucka, Vinnie Johnson, John
Long ? but I always thought I
could score, that I would get my
chance."
Associated Press Laser Photo
The Pistons' Joe Dumars poses with his trophy as MVP of the '89 NBA Playoffs as he helped
lead Detroit to its first-ever league title.
? Dumar^ came_?min_a^small
school, McNccse State in
Louisiana, but he is the nth-lead
ing all-time collegiate scorer.
He said the Pistons were moti
vated all season by their seven
game loss to the Lakers in the
1988 NBA Finals.
"The fact that we should've won
it last year stuck with us all sea
son," Dumars said. "Even if you
win 10 games in a row, you never
forget. Then to sweep the Lakers
makes it even sweeter."
Dumars, the unanimous MVP
choice by an 11 -member media
panel, said he knew he won the
award with about a minute left in
the final game when a Disney
World representative tapped him
for a post-game commercial.
'That last minute of the game, I_
was in a daze," he said.
"It was like I was there, but I
wasn't there. I was too nervous to
smile."
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