Banners fly forever. When you win a championship, every bad move that came along the way is wiped clean off the slate. That’s why Joe Dumars has largely gotten a pass from Detroit Pistons fans and the wider NBA world for drafting Darko Miličić over Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade. It led to a title. When we measure Dumars’ legacy as a general manager decades from now, that championship is in the first sentence.

Dumars, as it was reported Tuesday, is set to take over his first lead executive position since leaving the Pistons more than a decade ago. He is going to be the new president of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans.

As he moves into the new role, it’s worth asking… have the Pelicans bothered looking at everything Dumars did after winning that championship? Because that title came all the way back in 2004, and the 21 years that have passed since Dumars hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy haven’t been nearly as kind to him as the years leading up to it. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single, unquestionably successful move of his in the two decades and change since that championship.