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

[daoneandonly]

I'm somehwhere in the middle here.

I have zero issue with Luka being traded. He's immature, didnt take his conditioning seriously like a professional until he was called out and lost a lot of money, so we know what his true priorities are. I remember watching something on NBA TV where they were comparing AMerican and Worldwide talent. They were showing a list of stars with the least techs, the bottom of the list included Jokic, Shai, and Giannis. Guess which international star was nowhere to be found?

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

[Archx]

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

Shhh... don't talk **** about Nico, you'll be labeled as a Luka stan.

[Mr B]

"This is a classic Luka stan argument...and again... its the reason I'm glad his fanbase will soon be exiting Dallas." I don't think he's talking about people actually moving from Dallas.

That is still to be seen, if that happens, the only reason will be lottery luck not the trade.

Sounds like he’s referring to non-Mavs fans trolling this board because you hate that your favorite player got traded. If you’re not a fan of the Mavs it’s cool to post here but you shouldn’t be in here just trolling the Mavs just because Luka got traded.

Mavs fans who have written 10000 posts about Mavs games are suddenly non-Mavs fans, because they're still writing about Luka in a thread dedicated for that. And the arbiter is Mavs fan, who didn't write here almost anything for years?

You "Mavs" fans look like president Trump to me, whoever doesn't agree should be expelled.

Hey, hey, hey, no need for insults.

Yes this specific topic is dedicated for Mavs fans still upset about Luka being gone. That doesn’t make the complaining less annoying. You’re right though, you have every right to use this thread to continue complaining so I will bow out of the conversation. Have fun my friend.

[41Dirk41]

I'm somehwhere in the middle here.

I have zero issue with Luka being traded. He's immature, didnt take his conditioning seriously like a professional until he was called out and lost a lot of money, so we know what his true priorities are. I remember watching something on NBA TV where they were comparing AMerican and Worldwide talent. They were showing a list of stars with the least techs, the bottom of the list included Jokic, Shai, and Giannis. Guess which international star was nowhere to be found?

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

That's the point.

You can be a Luka fan or not but that's not the most important part here, we traded away our best asset for basically half of his value (maybe even less). This is a disgrace, not the Luka 4 fouls in game 3 against Boston.

Try to imagine if that lucky/Silver gift Flagg did not happen. This is the Harrison vision.
Now fire him ASAP please.

[Mr B]

You said they didn't play good enough D. But the main problem was their offense. All talk is about Luka, but Kyrie was actually the main culprit, not been able to score anything in Boston. I can understand role players unable to hit anything but Kyrie...

Luka getting dominated by Jaylen Brown was a huge factor.

Because, it was expected that he will defended him 1 on 1? What about Luka hitting 4 3s in game 1, all others 3, Kyrie 0 and he went 0 in game 2 too. What about Kyrie averaging 14 points in first 2 games with catastrophic %, Luka 31 points? Luka was the only existent in first 2 games, it was collective collapse of all others. D was the least problem of Mavs, they have lost series in offensive side.

No he wasn’t expected to defend Brown 1 v 1 all game. It doesn’t help though when Jaylen is hunting out Luka for the switch and then literally blowing by him on damn near every possession. If Luka was in peak shape and gave 100% effort on defense maybe they don’t get dominated in the Finals?

[41Dirk41]

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

Shhh... don't talk **** about Nico, you'll be labeled as a Luka stan.

I just hope some useless posters will disappear again after Harrison's firing.

[Mr B]

I'm somehwhere in the middle here.

I have zero issue with Luka being traded. He's immature, didnt take his conditioning seriously like a professional until he was called out and lost a lot of money, so we know what his true priorities are. I remember watching something on NBA TV where they were comparing AMerican and Worldwide talent. They were showing a list of stars with the least techs, the bottom of the list included Jokic, Shai, and Giannis. Guess which international star was nowhere to be found?

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

That's the point.

You can be a Luka fan or not but that's not the most important part here, we traded away our best asset for basically half of his value (maybe even less). This is a disgrace, not the Luka 4 fouls in game 3 against Boston.

Try to imagine if that lucky/Silver gift Flagg did not happen. This is the Harrison vision.
Now fire him ASAP please.

Everyone is aware they got crap value for Luka. Everyone was upset about that when the trade went down. They didn’t even get half of Luka’s true value in my opinion. I also believe Nico should be fired but by this point it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Me screaming for Nico to get fired in every single post is not going to make it happen.

[Bob8]

Luka getting dominated by Jaylen Brown was a huge factor.

Because, it was expected that he will defended him 1 on 1? What about Luka hitting 4 3s in game 1, all others 3, Kyrie 0 and he went 0 in game 2 too. What about Kyrie averaging 14 points in first 2 games with catastrophic %, Luka 31 points? Luka was the only existent in first 2 games, it was collective collapse of all others. D was the least problem of Mavs, they have lost series in offensive side.

No he wasn’t expected to defend Brown 1 v 1 all game. It doesn’t help though when Jaylen is hunting out Luka for the switch and then literally blowing by him on damn near every possession. If Luka was in peak shape and gave 100% effort on defense maybe they don’t get dominated in the Finals?

Luka was in peak shape in the start of the season, just look at pictures I posted in this thread. Problem was that he had to play the whole season in playoffs mode, because Kyrie and friends were missing 1.5 months all together. 34/9/10 shows what incredible burden was on him, 60+ game to win in overtime, 73 points game to barely win...92 games with the biggest usage, the most total minutes, the biggest scoring, assisting and rebounding burden, playing for 40+ minutes in playoffs is unsustainable. Nobody played as many minutes as Luka and nobody had even similar offensive burden. In the end D was good enough to win, unfortunately offensive side wasn't. Funny enough all trades next year was to address that offensive side, team became much better offensively and then trade happened.

[Bob8]

Sounds like he’s referring to non-Mavs fans trolling this board because you hate that your favorite player got traded. If you’re not a fan of the Mavs it’s cool to post here but you shouldn’t be in here just trolling the Mavs just because Luka got traded.

Mavs fans who have written 10000 posts about Mavs games are suddenly non-Mavs fans, because they're still writing about Luka in a thread dedicated for that. And the arbiter is Mavs fan, who didn't write here almost anything for years?

You "Mavs" fans look like president Trump to me, whoever doesn't agree should be expelled.

Hey, hey, hey, no need for insults.

Yes this specific topic is dedicated for Mavs fans still upset about Luka being gone. That doesn’t make the complaining less annoying. You’re right though, you have every right to use this thread to continue complaining so I will bow out of the conversation. Have fun my friend.

You know what will be the only really annoying thing for Mavs fans? Luka playing against them like it's 7th game of the Finals every game. It doesn't matter anything what we on this board think or feel, but Luka's anger towards Mavs organisation is real and will be felt for years to come.

[Archx]

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

Shhh... don't talk **** about Nico, you'll be labeled as a Luka stan.

I just hope some useless posters will disappear again after Harrison's firing.

True true... Being gaslighted into conversations and opinions i wasn't even part of, pisses me off every time. And on top of that "Luka stan" is not even an argument anymore it's basically a quiet insult when you run out of any reasonable arguments to boost your claims.

So yeah, i fully agree, people who have no clue how to read and then run conversations should just stay out.

F*ck Nico, i hope he gets fired sooner than later.

[Mr B]

Mavs fans who have written 10000 posts about Mavs games are suddenly non-Mavs fans, because they're still writing about Luka in a thread dedicated for that. And the arbiter is Mavs fan, who didn't write here almost anything for years?

You "Mavs" fans look like president Trump to me, whoever doesn't agree should be expelled.

Hey, hey, hey, no need for insults.

Yes this specific topic is dedicated for Mavs fans still upset about Luka being gone. That doesn’t make the complaining less annoying. You’re right though, you have every right to use this thread to continue complaining so I will bow out of the conversation. Have fun my friend.

You know what will be the only really annoying thing for Mavs fans? Luka playing against them like it's 7th game of the Finals every game. It doesn't matter anything what we on this board think or feel, but Luka's anger towards Mavs organisation is real and will be felt for years to come.

Could be the start of a great rivalry between the Mavs and Lakers.

[BliscoSantos]

Luka getting dominated by Jaylen Brown was a huge factor.

Because, it was expected that he will defended him 1 on 1? What about Luka hitting 4 3s in game 1, all others 3, Kyrie 0 and he went 0 in game 2 too. What about Kyrie averaging 14 points in first 2 games with catastrophic %, Luka 31 points? Luka was the only existent in first 2 games, it was collective collapse of all others. D was the least problem of Mavs, they have lost series in offensive side.

No he wasn’t expected to defend Brown 1 v 1 all game. It doesn’t help though when Jaylen is hunting out Luka for the switch and then literally blowing by him on damn near every possession. If Luka was in peak shape and gave 100% effort on defense maybe they don’t get dominated in the Finals?

Can't believe somethings that i'm reading here...I didn't post for a long time but now I felt like I should post my thoughts

Y'all know I've been very critical of somethings about Luka(his complaining,conditioning) ....yes,heshould have changed somethings sooner,but the more I read about the whole fiasco of a trade,the more it became obvious to me that it seems like this was always Nico's plan...Luka was never his guy and it seems like he was Just waiting for the change of the ownership(no more Cuban being incharge) to trade him...the whole firing of the People that Luka liked and that were well respected around the league and replacing them with incompetent staff,that were thank god replaced this season....he wanted(or maybe did forbid some acces) made to working with his own team that is now with him in LA(Anže Maček-fitness coach ,the spanish physio and someone else, who I forgot now)...I have a feeling he would have traded him sooner,but them the Mavs Got to the finals and it was kind of hard to justify the trade...though he did get some mamo for trading him by that Windy rant on TV and other reporters pitching in on who was the main reason for the finals loss...now Look,I've been dissapointed by his finals defensive performance,but its like we forgot he was injured for basicaly the entire playoffs(he was never fully injury free)...some of that had to do with his conditioning but the main reason was he never fully healed his injury,not even during that offseason since he went and played for Slovenia(which he should have skipped...and that's coming from a Slovenian)...Still, the Mavs didn't lose that final because of him, although it seems like that because the close loses in second and third game were highlighted in the media by his D errors...the Celtics were simply the better team...Mavs were poor on O,Kyrie was horrible apart from one game where he was good and another where he was ok...Lively and Gafford were outplayed by an old Man in Horford and the glass Man Porzingis when he played...DJJ and PJ struggled,Kidd made some bad decisions,it was just a combination of things...offcourse the fault fell on the superstar,who again was visibly injured(he didn't even move right on O)...the next season was Just a total disaster...Luka never healed properly ,but he wasnt the only one....injuries pilled up,everybody was Hurt,seems like that finals run took its tolk(along with an incompetent fitness and health staff)

The trade happened,it was a bad trade even though AD is an amazing Player,but he's Got his own health problems

And lets not give Nico any credit for Cooper please,cause his vision for the trade wasnt lucking into the first pick and a generational talent...if Nico got his way the Mavs would probably be a playoffs team,but still probably behind OKC,Denver, Minnesota..and by getting his vision,there would be no Cooper Flagg and the future would be Just the next two years since he would have probably traded the 25 pick for KD

I'm glad Flagg is a Mav,but Nico had nothing to do with it

[Bob8]

Hey, hey, hey, no need for insults.

Yes this specific topic is dedicated for Mavs fans still upset about Luka being gone. That doesn’t make the complaining less annoying. You’re right though, you have every right to use this thread to continue complaining so I will bow out of the conversation. Have fun my friend.

You know what will be the only really annoying thing for Mavs fans? Luka playing against them like it's 7th game of the Finals every game. It doesn't matter anything what we on this board think or feel, but Luka's anger towards Mavs organisation is real and will be felt for years to come.

Could be the start of a great rivalry between the Mavs and Lakers.

Fat Slovenian vs. Dream Defenders

[41Dirk41]

I'm somehwhere in the middle here.

I have zero issue with Luka being traded. He's immature, didnt take his conditioning seriously like a professional until he was called out and lost a lot of money, so we know what his true priorities are. I remember watching something on NBA TV where they were comparing AMerican and Worldwide talent. They were showing a list of stars with the least techs, the bottom of the list included Jokic, Shai, and Giannis. Guess which international star was nowhere to be found?

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

That's the point.

You can be a Luka fan or not but that's not the most important part here, we traded away our best asset for basically half of his value (maybe even less). This is a disgrace, not the Luka 4 fouls in game 3 against Boston.

Try to imagine if that lucky/Silver gift Flagg did not happen. This is the Harrison vision.
Now fire him ASAP please.

Everyone is aware they got crap value for Luka. Everyone was upset about that when the trade went down. They didn’t even get half of Luka’s true value in my opinion. I also believe Nico should be fired but by this point it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Me screaming for Nico to get fired in every single post is not going to make it happen.

Here's where you're wrong, we have to scream for Nico get fired every minutes of our Mavs life, mostly people like you who go to the AAC, bar sport and live in Dallas.

Nico Harrison destroyed a franchise and just an immense luck (or something else) saved the team, he doesn't deserve his job... Mostly after his disrespectful statements towards the fans. I don't forget his words. I will never.

[Jonny Blaze]

There is an argument to be made that Kidd is the second most important player in franchise history. From being the #2 overall pick by the Mavs to (like Luka) being traded from a team you didn’t want to leave, to coming back and helping Dirk and the Mavs finally get that elusive Championship.

Jason Kidd is not more important to the Mavs then Jason Terry, Mary Agguire, Ro Blackmon, or Luka.

Kidd was at best the 5th best player on the title team behind Dirk, JET, Matrix and Tyson Chandler.
Until the 2024 Finals Jason Terry and Dirk were the only two Mavericks to play on both Western Conference Championship teams.

You might have a case with Ro or Aguirre. Terry is close and will always be one of my favorite players but Kidd was more important to that 2011 team than Terry was. The Mavs would have got scoring from someone in that team. What they couldn’t replicate though was Kidd’s leadership at the PG position. Go back and watch that 2011 season. Whenever the game got out of control or “helter skelter” Kidd was the one that calmed the team down. Dirk was the leader and best player but Kidd drove that bus.

I'm going to disagree with you. JET was so frikin clutch...and in 4th quarters it was him and Dirk carrying much of the offensive load.
Terry's performance in Game 6 of the 2011 Finals is what puts him over the top for me. He carried the Mavs while Dirk was ice cold.

2011 was the only post season that Kidd was every good in while he played for the Mavs.

[Jonny Blaze]

I'm somehwhere in the middle here.

I have zero issue with Luka being traded. He's immature, didnt take his conditioning seriously like a professional until he was called out and lost a lot of money, so we know what his true priorities are. I remember watching something on NBA TV where they were comparing AMerican and Worldwide talent. They were showing a list of stars with the least techs, the bottom of the list included Jokic, Shai, and Giannis. Guess which international star was nowhere to be found?

But Nico cannot be excused. He's a clown. He traded Luka for someone who does not even care about basketball, as evidenced by his missing 30 games a year. The unprofessionalism with how things were handled after is just ridiculous, not to mention him acting like getting the #1 pick was all part of his vision. AD only won in a bubble where the vast majority of players wanted to go home and be with their families, so they couldnt wait for the games and series to end.

That's the point.

You can be a Luka fan or not but that's not the most important part here, we traded away our best asset for basically half of his value (maybe even less). This is a disgrace, not the Luka 4 fouls in game 3 against Boston.

Try to imagine if that lucky/Silver gift Flagg did not happen. This is the Harrison vision.
Now fire him ASAP please.

This post right here is my issues with fans of Luka and why I'll be glad when they are gone. Part of being a Luka stan is chitting on every other player.

The Dallas Mavericks have never in their franchise history ever had a player with Anthony Davis's skillset. The Mavericks have never had a player that was dominant on both sides of the ball.

The Mavs best defensive bigs were Tyson Chandler, and James Donaldson. Neither of those guys could score more than about 10 points a game.

The Mavs have never had an Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Tim Duncan type of player that was elite on both sides of the ball.

In 10 games Antony Davis is already the best defensive player the Mavericks have ever had in franchise history.
The Mavs went 7-3 in the 10 games that AD played for us this year....and that was with an insane amount of injuries.
AD''s performances against Houston and Toronto is something that has never been seen in a Mavs uniform. A guy that can score 25-30 points a game and also dominate on the defensive side of the ball.

Anthony Davis is not the offensive force that Luka is....but Luka is nowhere close to the defensive presence of Anthony Davis. AD is going to give you about 80% of what Luka gave us on offense, and his defense will be excellent.

The 25-26 Mavs should be the best defensive team they've ever had.

[Jonny Blaze]

That's the point.

You can be a Luka fan or not but that's not the most important part here, we traded away our best asset for basically half of his value (maybe even less). This is a disgrace, not the Luka 4 fouls in game 3 against Boston.

Try to imagine if that lucky/Silver gift Flagg did not happen. This is the Harrison vision.
Now fire him ASAP please.

Everyone is aware they got crap value for Luka. Everyone was upset about that when the trade went down. They didn’t even get half of Luka’s true value in my opinion. I also believe Nico should be fired but by this point it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Me screaming for Nico to get fired in every single post is not going to make it happen.

Here's where you're wrong, we have to scream for Nico get fired every minutes of our Mavs life, mostly people like you who go to the AAC, bar sport and live in Dallas.

Nico Harrison destroyed a franchise and just an immense luck (or something else) saved the team, he doesn't deserve his job... Mostly after his disrespectful statements towards the fans. I don't forget his words. I will never.

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.

[Mr B]

Everyone is aware they got crap value for Luka. Everyone was upset about that when the trade went down. They didn’t even get half of Luka’s true value in my opinion. I also believe Nico should be fired but by this point it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Me screaming for Nico to get fired in every single post is not going to make it happen.

Here's where you're wrong, we have to scream for Nico get fired every minutes of our Mavs life, mostly people like you who go to the AAC, bar sport and live in Dallas.

Nico Harrison destroyed a franchise and just an immense luck (or something else) saved the team, he doesn't deserve his job... Mostly after his disrespectful statements towards the fans. I don't forget his words. I will never.

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.

[Jonny Blaze]

Here's where you're wrong, we have to scream for Nico get fired every minutes of our Mavs life, mostly people like you who go to the AAC, bar sport and live in Dallas.

Nico Harrison destroyed a franchise and just an immense luck (or something else) saved the team, he doesn't deserve his job... Mostly after his disrespectful statements towards the fans. I don't forget his words. I will never.

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.

[Archx]

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