Nico Harrison: "There's no regrets on the Luka Doncic trade. Part of it is doing the best thing for Mavs"

[Bob8]

From playing the Finals dude.
Mavs played the NBA Finals 3 times in their history. THREE TIMES.

You continue to talk about RS, those Mavs & Luka overperformed every year in PO and that's the focal point.
Good luck to win PO series leaded by AD& Irving. Playin Finals spoken very well.

I just want to see how street clothes, Irving and Flagg (who was not in Nico vision but you have to include him to not make your argument too silly) can do better than that, i'm just here to see how a team smoked by the Grizzlies months ago in the playin Finals can play the NBA Finals this year adding a 18yo kid.

But i will be here all the time. Don't disappear my dear friend.
I'm sorry but Nico vision doesn't exists, he talked about Cleveland when they won a lot of games just to justify the 2 no shooting bigs on the court.

See these are the posts that I have a problem with. You seem to be opens my rooting for the Mavs to lose. That’s not what a Mavs fan does that’s something a troll does.

This is why i'm ready for the Luka stans to go be fans of the Lakers.

Cooper Flagg will be everything that Luka wasn’t:
-He will play elite level defense
-He won’t be whining
-He will be in shape
-He will not run out of gas in the 4th quarter of games

Will he be able to score like Luka? Probably not. But that is not Coopers game. His game reminds me of Anthony Davis or Kawaii Leonard. I don’t expect Flagg to become an elite scorer until his 3rd or 4th year.
I’m not sure if Cooper will help all that much on the offensive side of the ball in his rookie year. He will impact the defensive side of the ball immediately.

Cooper Flagg will not make us forget Luka….but he will be the Jason Terry to Steve Nash.
There are still plenty of Steve Nash fans here in Dallas (I’m one of them) but Jason Terry is the one that became the legend in Dallas.

Terry helped lead the Mavs to their first two Western Conference Championships in 2006 and 2011. Steve Nash made the Hall of Fame (as will Luka) but he never made the Finals.

You understand that you're writing about Flagg in Nico traded Luka thread? You believe that Nico traded Luka, because he wanted Flagg?

Your writing is getting more pathetic every second. When you understood that AD is better than Luka can't go, you went to Flagg will be better than Luka.

[Mr B]

Destroy a franchise? From what? A 4 seed and 52-30?

For a period of 10 years (2012-21) the Mavs failed to win a single playoff series before Cuban got rid of Donnie Nelson and brought in Harrison.
Before Nico the Mavs continually stuck out in free agency because Donnie Nelson didn't have relationships with American (black) star players.

When the Mavs do better under AD, Kyrie and Flagg than they ever did under Luka...its going to make the Nico haters look like clowns.


The only reason the mavs were in the lottery this past season was due to injuries. The Mavs would not have made the playoffs last year even if they had kept Luka.....not with their entire starting lineup out due to injuries'.

I like Nico's vision of building a defensive first basketball team. I can't tell you how many games I went to in the Luka era where I watched him dribble the air out of the basketball, put up an amazing stat line like 39, 10 and 10......but the Mavs still lost because they gave up 125 points.

You can honestly tell the difference between those who are newer fans of the Mavs and the ones that have followed the team for a very long time.

Luka isn’t even the first top 5 (talent wise) future HOF PG that the Mavs traded. This team has been through MUCH worse than a front office guy trading Luka. Not saying that wasn’t bad because it was but this team has a history of making bone headed decisions. And not even by the same front office. The worst thing this team probably ever did was hire Quinn Buckner.

My dad had Mavs season tickets from 81 until 92. I've been a season ticket holder since 2005.
I went to Moody Madness against Seattle in 1984. I was at game 6 of the 88 Western Conference Finals when James Donaldson made that amazing block on James Worthy to win the game.
I was at game 5 of the 2011 Finals.

I suffered through the 90's when the Mavs were the worst franchise in all of pro sports. The Dallas Cowboys actually won more games than the Mavs in 1992 and 1993.

The one mistake I have with the trade is that the Mavs should have gotten a 2nd 1st round pick for Luka....but the reason the trade haul wasn't bigger is that its very rare for two star players to be traded for each other.

The Mavs are going to be fine. I like the makeup of this team. We need to see what Kyrie and AD can do together.
It was awesome having a badass backcourt....but trading offense for defense is essentially what the Luka-AD trade came down to.

I also think there are politics involved. Luka was Cuban's accomplishment. The trade and Flagg are now linked with Patrick Dumont and Nico Harrison.
The credit for the 24 Western Conference Championship went to Cuban...even though Dumont got to hold the trophy as the owner.

I’ve been a fan since ‘92. The Michigan Fab 5 got me into basketball. The Mavs drafted Jim Jackson and I started following the Mavs. Then they drafted Jamal, and then Kidd. Kidd was my Luka. Obvious future HOF PG at the beginning of his career. A legit superstar. Then they traded him for pennies on the dollar.

It took a while but they finally brought in a half way competent HC/GM who brought in Dirk and Nash. Then Cuban bought the team.

From the down years to the Championship in 2011 to now I’ve watched almost every game. I’ve learned over the years that the front office guys come and go. Great players come and go for different reasons. My loyalty is to the team.

[Mr B]

For a period of 10 years (2012-21) the Mavs failed to win a single playoff series before Cuban got rid of Donnie Nelson and brought in Harrison.
Before Nico the Mavs continually stuck out in free agency because Donnie Nelson didn't have relationships with American (black) star players.

Calling us clowns because we don't like Nico... Ok let's see what Nico did.

Who specifically did Nico bring with free agency?

Klay? When Kyrie recruited him and also said he wanted to play with Luka?

Who else am i forgetting? Oh yeah, i really loved when he signed McGee to a special 3 year contract and promised him a starting spot in the process. That was really awesome when he had to later stretch waive him.

What happened to Brunson under Nico's watch? Do you want to revisit that or did you block that out of your memory like you blocked 90% of bull**** you're talking in your posts?
We going to talk about all the unnecessary draft capital he had to burn through just to fix his own mistakes? I guess not.

The only reason the mavs were in the lottery this past season was due to injuries. The Mavs would not have made the playoffs last year even if they had kept Luka.....not with their entire starting lineup out due to injuries'.

Luka carried worse into the playoffs than the team he had before the trade. You're maybe casually forgetting the fact that he averaged 37pt triple double for TWO WHOLE months when Kyrie and others were out. That kept them afloat before everyone came back.

Nico's new medical staff rushed AD back and gets injured first game when he went full out. Then Kyries minutes and offensive load had to increase and even he got injured. AD comes back and gets injured again when he had to go full out vs MEM. For sure we thought Nico preaching defense would mean Mavs would easily sneak into the playoffs even without Kyrie.

Now Kyrie is injured and said himself he doesn't know if he's even going to be back next season. Which would potentially mean another wasted season. (i hope not).
Then we have to start talking about NEXT season which will be again difficult because there is this thing called salary cap and you can not magically keep players with infinite amount of money and zero consequences.

The absolute best thing to do would be to give Flagg keys of the team and go from there. But obviously Nico can't do that just yet with AD on the team.

Simply said, Nico is an idiot who's falling upwards ever since he arrived. And the fact that you credit him with Flagg is absolute madness

Nico doesn’t get credit for trades?

[Archx]

Nico doesn’t get credit for trades?

He was talking about free agency not trades.

Nico sure did better with trades with a lot of help from Lindsey but then it went downhill. On the other hand, even trades were a roller coaster ride. Completely lucked into Gafford when Kuzma turned him down and basically was forced to take PJ when Grant Williams experiment was a complete fail. Grimes was another fiasco.... It's just dumb after dumb. And also losing a lot of draft capital on the way for no reason at all.

Though i do give him credit for Lively and getting rid of Bertans. But we have no clue how they really pin pointed on to him. I don't trust anything that scumbag says anymore anyway.

[41Dirk41]

AD is going to give you about 80% of what Luka gave us on offense

I respect your long time Mavs fans tenute but this is bull, i hope you are joking.

Serious questions....Did you take math when you were in school?

AD is going to score between 24-30 PPG....which is roughly 80% of the 31-33PPG that Luka was giving us. The difference is that AD also has the ability to anchor a championship caliber defense....something the Mavericks haven't had since Tyson Chandler. Luka is a net negative on defense (see 2024 Finals).
We are replacing a negative defensive player with one of the best defenders in the entire NBA.

The Dallas Mavericks have never had a player that could consistently average over 2 blocks/game.
AD has led the NBA in blocks in 3 different seasons.

AD was the best player on the 2020 Lakers that won the championship, and at worst was 2nd best behind Lebron. He was the Lakers best defensive player and led them that season in PER.
AD also won a National Title in his only season at Kentucky.

Luka hasn't won jack chit. All he does is score a lot.....but he also has the ball in his hand more than any other player in the league.
Houston fans used to call him White James Harden.....and at the end of the day I agree with them.
There is only so far you are going to go with an offense only superstar who is overweight and doesn't commit to playing defense.

Luka and Harden can score like a MOFO....I will give you that...but the Mavs will be better in the future than they ever were in the Luka era.

I'm sorry to tell you that basketball is not math and we are living in 2025.

[Bob8]

I respect your long time Mavs fans tenute but this is bull, i hope you are joking.

Serious questions....Did you take math when you were in school?

AD is going to score between 24-30 PPG....which is roughly 80% of the 31-33PPG that Luka was giving us. The difference is that AD also has the ability to anchor a championship caliber defense....something the Mavericks haven't had since Tyson Chandler. Luka is a net negative on defense (see 2024 Finals).
We are replacing a negative defensive player with one of the best defenders in the entire NBA.

The Dallas Mavericks have never had a player that could consistently average over 2 blocks/game.
AD has led the NBA in blocks in 3 different seasons.

AD was the best player on the 2020 Lakers that won the championship, and at worst was 2nd best behind Lebron. He was the Lakers best defensive player and led them that season in PER.
AD also won a National Title in his only season at Kentucky.

Luka hasn't won jack chit. All he does is score a lot.....but he also has the ball in his hand more than any other player in the league.
Houston fans used to call him White James Harden.....and at the end of the day I agree with them.
There is only so far you are going to go with an offense only superstar who is overweight and doesn't commit to playing defense.

Luka and Harden can score like a MOFO....I will give you that...but the Mavs will be better in the future than they ever were in the Luka era.

I'm sorry to tell you that basketball is not math and we are living in 2025.

Basketball kinda is math, team with more points scored wins. Funny enough Jonny Blaze doesn't understand that assisting is important in basketball math. He believes that if AD had similar usage to Luka, he could have the same # of assists. Or looking from different angle, he believes AD could be an elite Pg, if he had the ball enough in his possession. Johnny Blaze is Johnny Bravo. Woah, mama!

[41Dirk41]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

[Bob8]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

I kinda feel bad for Mr.B. He looks like a decent guy, unfortunately he was fooled by a cartoon character.

[Archx]

I respect your long time Mavs fans tenute but this is bull, i hope you are joking.

Serious questions....Did you take math when you were in school?

AD is going to score between 24-30 PPG....which is roughly 80% of the 31-33PPG that Luka was giving us. The difference is that AD also has the ability to anchor a championship caliber defense....something the Mavericks haven't had since Tyson Chandler. Luka is a net negative on defense (see 2024 Finals).
We are replacing a negative defensive player with one of the best defenders in the entire NBA.

The Dallas Mavericks have never had a player that could consistently average over 2 blocks/game.
AD has led the NBA in blocks in 3 different seasons.

AD was the best player on the 2020 Lakers that won the championship, and at worst was 2nd best behind Lebron. He was the Lakers best defensive player and led them that season in PER.
AD also won a National Title in his only season at Kentucky.

Luka hasn't won jack chit. All he does is score a lot.....but he also has the ball in his hand more than any other player in the league.
Houston fans used to call him White James Harden.....and at the end of the day I agree with them.
There is only so far you are going to go with an offense only superstar who is overweight and doesn't commit to playing defense.

Luka and Harden can score like a MOFO....I will give you that...but the Mavs will be better in the future than they ever were in the Luka era.

I'm sorry to tell you that basketball is not math and we are living in 2025.

Well, there is a lot of math in basketball when it comes to statistics, but he just chose to not include the other part of it which is points created from assists and so on. Like i said in my early posts, he chose to leave out A TON of stats when it comes to Luka but when it comes to AD he made sure to include them

Lets pretend that statistically Luka wasn't the best playmaker in the past 5 years, with either quality shot% created for the team and pure assist %. Then yes he is right, AD does score roughly 80% of what Luka scores, even though that stat is also a bit selective to begin with. So all in all he is legit leaving out roughly additional 20-25 ppg that Luka adds to the offense.

Now here is the tricky part in which media and Nico completely brainwashed the masses. He'll counter that Luka gives up exactly same points per game on defense or even more (which is an absolute bull**** claim anyway), and he'll tell you again how good AD is.

So lets do his math.

Luka before injuries and trade. (But will use posters averages of 32 ppg which also drags Luka's % down). Real stat is 58.8 ppg (34.5p+24.3pa) 49.7% LEADS NBA.

AD 24-31ppg (That alone is quite a wide spread but lets take the average of 27.5). Lets ignore the fact that AD never averaged more than 28ppg (only twice).
Luka 31-33 (Average of 32)

So, according to his math, that makes (points created for the team per game)
Luka 56.3 ppg
AD 32.2 ppg


So (roughly) AD would have to make up around 24 ppg on defense in order to match Luka WITHOUT allowing a single point to be scored on him.

TLDR; Only Nico and brainwashed fans believe this nonsense.

[Bob8]

It's still early to say, if AD/Kyrie/Flagg Mavs will be better than Luka's Mavs, but it's very obvious that "Luka's" fans are better in math and statistics than "Mavs" fans. Not exactly big surprise there, because it was more or less only Luka's fans and our moderator to bring some stats and analytics in consideration in last 7 years on this board.

[Mr B]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

[Bob8]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

Mavs fans are not in total despair only because Mavs lucked in Draft. Nico **** up, didn't even try to get in lottery, but then Luka's replacement broke down in game 1 and his lottery ticket with 1.8% chances won. Idiot got lucky, that's it. He's still an idiot.

[Archx]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

Why would anyone hate the Mavs aka the team? Players are at no fault at what's going on in the background. Also, Mavs are a global brand, more Mavs fans live around the globe than in Dallas.

[Mr B]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

Mavs fans are not in total despair only because Mavs lucked in Draft. Nico **** up, didn't even try to get in lottery, but then Luka's replacement broke down in game 1 and his lottery ticket with 1.8% chances won. Idiot got lucky, that's it. He's still an idiot.

No one is disagreeing with that. He’s still not getting fired anytime soon.

[Mr B]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

Why would anyone hate the Mavs aka the team? Players are at no fault at what's going on in the background. Also, Mavs are a global brand, more Mavs fans live around the globe than in Dallas.

Well Dirk41 is openly hoping they fail. He clearly hates the Mavs based on what he’s said.

[Bob8]

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

Mavs fans are not in total despair only because Mavs lucked in Draft. Nico **** up, didn't even try to get in lottery, but then Luka's replacement broke down in game 1 and his lottery ticket with 1.8% chances won. Idiot got lucky, that's it. He's still an idiot.

No one is disagreeing with that. He’s still not getting fired anytime soon.

And that's a big mistake. He should get fired, that would be the best cure for Luka's trade and then AD should be traded and Flagg's team started to be built. Unfortunately clueless owner won't do that. Nico's man is AD not Flagg. AD and Kyrie will have keys not Flagg.

[Maverick41]

Wanting Nico fired and not being excited for the upcoming season isn't exclusive. You can be be for one and not for the other. I for one am excited about the season, particularly because of Flagg and what he could be. The kid looks amazing so far and it's really exciting to have a guy of his caliber as a prospect. I, however absolutely want Nico fired. I don't care if this conspiracy theories or whatever are true. The way he handled this situation has been abysmal and is going to be a case study of "what not to do to your star player" for decades to come.

[Archx]

Wanting Nico fired and not being excited for the upcoming season isn't exclusive. You can be be for one and not for the other. I for one am excited about the season, particularly because of Flagg and what he could be. The kid looks amazing so far and it's really exciting to have a guy of his caliber as a prospect. I, however absolutely want Nico fired. I don't care if this conspiracy theories or whatever are true. The way he handled this situation has been abysmal and is going to be a case study of "what not to do to your star player" for decades to come.

Very well said.

[41Dirk41]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

The majority of the fanbase in Dallas do not hate the Mavs. Again I actually live in the city but what would I know. I’m sure someone like you who doesn’t even live in the country (much less city) knows much more about what’s going on here.

We can archive yet another version change from our beloved Mr. B. Great.

Nobody here hates the Mavs, nobody here hopes in their failure but almost nobody is excited about a AD leaded team.
That's for sure.

It is inevitable that this roster will not even be able to match the results of the last 4/5 years, so it is equally inevitable that whoever is responsible for this deterioration will have to pay the consequences.

I don't know what are going on in the city but the Mavs organization knows it for sure and they hired a new face with the primary goal of healing the relationship with the fans. That's the reality. Clear and simple.

[daoneandonly]

Jonny Blaze is Nico Harrison. 100%.

Probably called by Mr.B when he understood that the majority of the fanbase (even in Dallas) are no so excited about next Mavs season.

Not going to lie, I was thinking he's BeuBei or whatever that guy's sn was