James Jones is joining the NBA front office as executive vice president and head of basketball operations, replacing Joe Dumars in that role.Jones spent 14 years as a player in the NBA, winning two championships with the Miami Heat and another with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Among the annual duties for Yale men’s basketball coach James Jones and his staff, of course, is to build a schedule. The Ivy League takes care of the bulk, and it isn’t hard to sprinkle in some low-level Division I opponents.