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The hiring of Marc Eversley for the Chicago Bulls and Troy Weaver for the Pistons as new general managers made waves beyond the NBA.
During the novel coronavirus pandemic-induced 2019-20 NBA regular season hiatus, there were two franchises that made good use of the downtime by making necessary changes to the look of their front offices. And both of those franchises sit in the Central Division. The Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons made moves to hire two African-American front office candidates during the COVID-19 induced hiatus, and it caught headlines in the meantime.