Shams:Mavericks fire Nico Harrison

[web123888]

He's as dumb as the Mavs owners.

[Doctor MJ]

Why do they fire him AFTER he destroyed the team? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it before he did that?

There’s a clear answer here imho:

Why did the owner not stop his GM from making a terrible basketball trade? Because he didn’t know it was a terrible basketball trade, because he doesn’t know basketball.

One of the things I think makes fans prone to conspiracy thoughts is that they just can’t imagine the people with decision making power could be so ignorant, but there really should be no expectation that owners know anything at all about the game at the center of the asset.

NBA owners are forever in a position where they need to identify expertise in others that they lack in themselves, and the fact that they are definitionally unqualified to make the decision they have to make is where the incompetence sneaks into an otherwise super-competent landscape.

Dumont will be in danger of other screw ups forever, but I expect he’ll do better going forward because, well, this is going to leave a deep scar that absolutely costs Dumont money and clout.


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[Doctor MJ]

How long until we hear ‘SELL THE MAVERICKS!’ chants break out now that Nico is gone? I’d be shocked if we don’t start hearing them immediately. Dumont is going to learn that firing Nico isn’t enough.

The ironic thing is, AGAIN, that Dumont was the one who ordered the trade of Luka. No GM has that much power to trade a young superstar on his own. I'm actually curious if Mavs fans will start using their brains and chanting "Sell the team" because THAT should have been the original chant to begin with

Exactly.

And even if a GM does have the power to trade a young superstar on their own, that just means ownership is doing a terrible job managing the organization.

Which goes back to my original point: if I were a Mavs fan, I’d already be mad — but the timing of this would make me even more concerned. Optically, this just looks like incompetence.

Well, it certainly is incompetence on many levels. No getting around that.

The thing about owners though is that they are the ones who get “hired” for reasons other than competence and can’t actually get fired for mere incompetence.

Perfectly fine for Mav fans to be livid about all of this, but the fact that one NBA owner lacks basketball competence shouldn’t be something we should really be surprised about.

The best owners are largely the ones who a) got lucky finding the right advisors and then b) let them cook c) with enough of a budget to make the meal.

And unfortunately even those guys tend to let their ego get in the way eventually.

As an Angeleno Laker fan born and raised it drove ke nuts seeing the way the House of Buss has tried to create a narrative of Jerry Buss being some amazing basketball mind. No J—-, your family mostly just got lucky in your basketball operations.

[Doctor MJ]

Nico Harrison Pushed For Anthony Davis' Return Despite Achilles Injury Concerns

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/282743/Nico-Harrison-Pushed-For-Anthony-Davis-Return-Despite-Achilles-Injury-Concerns

I think this really speaks to why Nico had to go NOW. Once a GM gets desperate, his priorities no longer align with his boss.

Nico was never qualified for this position and should never have gotten it, but he went from merely being a bad judge of basketball to being a direct threat to the health and development of his players.


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[Doctor MJ]

AD was playing like an MVP caliber player when they traded him. I'm still hoping he can come back and lead the Mavs. Otherwise that was some crazy lucky timing by the Lakers if he just falls apart and never returns to form.

From a Buss-Pelinka perspective, I think “dumb luck” is what everyone should be thinking.

While handing the franchise over to LeBron in 2018 was a move you simply had to say “Yes” to, and it was worth it, the Lakers had no good way out of the knot they’d tied themselves in and were looking at a repeat of the godawful mid-10s with Jim Buss running the show.

Now, Pelinka and Jeanie are going to be able to build a narrative that implies they knew what they were doing, when they really mostly just had something fall into their lap they know full well they could t have counted on.


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[Wallace_Wallace]

Why do they fire him AFTER he destroyed the team? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it before he did that?

The owners were on board with the trade.

Well turns out, unsurprisingly, trading for a 32 year old big man that is always injured making 174 million overall the next 3 years for a generational talent was not best idea so someone had to be sacrificed.

The thing is, they can net so much more. You can ask for any pick or any player not named Jokic, SGA or Antetokounmpo. The fact that Dallas only asked for Davis and some chump change is suicidal.

[The_Ghost_of_JB]

Why do they fire him AFTER he destroyed the team? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it before he did that?

The owners were on board with the trade.

Well turns out, unsurprisingly, trading for a 32 year old big man that is always injured making 174 million overall the next 3 years for a generational talent was not best idea so someone had to be sacrificed.

The thing is, they can net so much more. You can ask for any pick or any player not named Jokic, SGA or Antetokounmpo. The fact that Dallas only asked for Davis and some chump change is suicidal.

I couldn’t agree more. The whole thing was shady AF. Like why in the world was Dallas just dealing with the Lakers when like you said they had so many options?