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 DETROIT (AP) - The divorce was messy, but the marriage was worth it. In good times, Larry Brown and Joe Dumars talked every day about everything. In bad, lawyers spoke on behalf of the Hall of Fame coach and the Detroit Pistons' president of basketball operations.
An ugly split, which was completed Tuesday after weeks of negotiations, taints their two-year relationship. If both sides could do it all over, however, they would follow the same path because they got what they wanted.
Brown filled the only void in a career that started in 1972 by winning an NBA title last season with the Pistons, and Detroit hired a coach able to turn its good team into a champion.
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