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NBA Fined Joe Dumars $500,000 For Leaking Memos, New Republic Reports

December 17, 2014, 12:32 PM

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An interesting little tidbit has surfaced in an article written in the New Republic by Kevin Draper.

Draper reports that in 2010, the NBA fined then-Pistons President Dumars $500,000 for leaking multiple confidential league memos to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. Draper cites unnamed, "multiple sources."

Draper writes:

This matches the third largest publicly known fine the league has ever handed down. The NBA decided that too many memos were making it into the media, so they conducted a sting operation over several months.

They would change a few words or numbers in different team’s copies of otherwise identical memos, so that when the memos leaked they could spot the small differences and trace them back to the leaker. This approach caught Dumars red-handed, as well as an executive from another team who was fined $12,500 for leaking to a draft-focused website. Joe Dumars, the Detroit Pistons, and the NBA all declined to comment on the fine.
 


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