Mavs weigh Nico's Future

[Fo-Real]

Slight tangent but didn't Stephen A predict the Mavs to win the championship this season? He's almost as bad at his job as Nico.

Is this true? I'm glad I stopped listening to ESPN years ago. It's become such low quality.

Absolutely!! Degenerated into garbage over the last few years, I avoid it at all cost.

[NyKnicks1714]

What's the obvious answer? that a guy who is clearly very smart, decided to take a bad trade with only one team because he wanted to get out of the Super max? That doesn't even make a hint of sense. As I pointed out, they'd get out of the super max by trading him ANYWHERE. I understand some people just have to believe everything they are told, but come on, a LITTLE critical thinking isn't too much to ask, is it? Why did the Mavs only talk to the Lakers? Why did they not insist on every first round pick they could offer and Reeves? Why did a very smart guy make a trade that was so bad that it took a team from the finals to the lottery and still keep his job? And the Mavs wound up getting the number one pick right after. Amazing coincidence! The trade happened right before the Lakers got sold, making the NBA's most valuable franchise even more valuable. Another amazing coincidence!

They didn't want to pay him the Supermax, for whatever reasons, so they directed Nico to trade him. Most people chose to forget that AD is a top 10 player and ignored the fact that he was likely the best player they could have gotten for Luka, but I did not. If Kyrie didn't get hurt they could have fielded a pretty decent team last season. They clearly wanted a win-now move, not a package centered on a bunch of 1sts.

If you want to instead believe it's more reasonable that the NBA orchestrated the trade to get Luka to the Lakers and rewarded Dallas with the number one overall pick (which among other things would have required all other NBA teams to be in on it, without any leaks...but at this point that's not too big a stretch), go for it.

Yep, and if you want to obediently believe the official story and never question what you’re told, you do you.

There’s no way that’s the best player or package you could get for Luka. And I don’t agree that 32 year old broke down Davis was the best player they could get either. I’d like to see your source for that. You don’t call one team and just take whatever they offer, lol.

Name one better player they reasonably could have gotten. And they didn't call one team. They inquired about Edwards, but even though Luka is the better player, Minny wasn't going to trade the young marketable face of their franchise.

But you should really step back and realize how wacky and unrealistic your narrative is. If the NBA orchestrated the trade and rigged the draft (again, by magic apparently. I guarantee you can't come up with any realistic way they could have physically rigged it), the ****storm that would rain down on the NBA would massively outweigh anything they had to gain by doing that to begin with.

[Effigy]

They didn't want to pay him the Supermax, for whatever reasons, so they directed Nico to trade him. Most people chose to forget that AD is a top 10 player and ignored the fact that he was likely the best player they could have gotten for Luka, but I did not. If Kyrie didn't get hurt they could have fielded a pretty decent team last season. They clearly wanted a win-now move, not a package centered on a bunch of 1sts.

If you want to instead believe it's more reasonable that the NBA orchestrated the trade to get Luka to the Lakers and rewarded Dallas with the number one overall pick (which among other things would have required all other NBA teams to be in on it, without any leaks...but at this point that's not too big a stretch), go for it.

Yep, and if you want to obediently believe the official story and never question what you’re told, you do you.

There’s no way that’s the best player or package you could get for Luka. And I don’t agree that 32 year old broke down Davis was the best player they could get either. I’d like to see your source for that. You don’t call one team and just take whatever they offer, lol.

Name one better player they reasonably could have gotten. And they didn't call one team. They inquired about Edwards, but even though Luka is the better player, Minny wasn't going to trade the young marketable face of their franchise.

But you should really step back and realize how wacky and unrealistic your narrative is. If the NBA orchestrated the trade and rigged the draft (again, by magic apparently. I guarantee you can't come up with any realistic way they could have physically rigged it), the ****storm that would rain down on the NBA would massively outweigh anything they had to gain by doing that to begin with.

I'm surprised at you believing rumors as if they're official! That's not like you! You can watch the press conference yourself, but Harrison told reporters that he only spoke to the Lakers and never shopped Dončić to any other teams. So there you go. Official word from Nico vs unverified rumor. You are absolutely insane if you think that's the best deal they could have got.

[NyKnicks1714]

Yep, and if you want to obediently believe the official story and never question what you’re told, you do you.

There’s no way that’s the best player or package you could get for Luka. And I don’t agree that 32 year old broke down Davis was the best player they could get either. I’d like to see your source for that. You don’t call one team and just take whatever they offer, lol.

Name one better player they reasonably could have gotten. And they didn't call one team. They inquired about Edwards, but even though Luka is the better player, Minny wasn't going to trade the young marketable face of their franchise.

But you should really step back and realize how wacky and unrealistic your narrative is. If the NBA orchestrated the trade and rigged the draft (again, by magic apparently. I guarantee you can't come up with any realistic way they could have physically rigged it), the ****storm that would rain down on the NBA would massively outweigh anything they had to gain by doing that to begin with.

I'm surprised at you believing rumors as if they're official! That's not like you! You can watch the press conference yourself, but Harrison told reporters that he only spoke to the Lakers and never shopped Dončić to any other teams. So there you go. Official word from Nico vs unverified rumor. You are absolutely insane if you think that's the best deal they could have got.

It was a credible report, but whether or not you want to believe it, they wouldn't have gotten Edwards. Again though, name one player better than AD they reasonably could have gotten.

[MrGoat]

I asked a friend who works for the Mavericks about Nico Harrison and he thought Nico's job isn't going to make it to Christmas. Stein's one of if not the best source for Mavs news so I think it's very likely that Nico's seat is on fire right now

The ownership is hesitating to do it already because it reflects poorly on them too but Nico knew what he was doing ever since Adam Silver darkened the Mavs' doorstep with a mole hire and the fan backlash isn't dying down even though the NBA had Ernst and Young shift the ping pong balls in their favor in last draft

They have to fire Nico, the team needs to hit the reset button and blow it up but Nico can't justify doing that after putting his name on such a catastrophic trade because it would be admitting defeat

Watch them fire him on Christmas Eve.

Damn, he didn't even make it to Thanksgiving

I was surprised I got a straight answer when I asked him the question. Normally he's cagy when I ask him about the Mavs.