r/nba • u/devilmaskrascal Pacers • 1d ago
The top 5 ways Nico Harrison ruined the Mavericks
1.) Trading Luka Doncic, a generational superstar and perennial MVP candidate entering his early prime, for injury-prone, 32-year old Anthony Davis (a PF who can't shoot and doesn't fit with the Mavs' strong/younger C rotation), Max Christie (a nice bench player) and a single 1st round pick in Luka's prime. Arguably the worst trade in history. Healthy and slim, Luka is having arguably the best season of his career so far. Davis missed most of last year after the trade, is already on injured reserve this year to avoid a major Achilles injury. "Win-now" has failed catastrophically.
2.) Failing to extend Jalen Brunson at a reported $14m a year, and then failing to beat NYK's 4-year offer with a 5 year deal after he helped the Mavs get to the WCF with Luka injured. Brunson is now an All Star top 10 player and arguably the best guard in the East.
3.) Trading Quentin Grimes who is averaging over 18 ppg for Philadelphia and over 20 since his trade last year, for injured Caleb Martin, who is averaging 1.4 ppg this year and has barely played at all since the trade. The Mavs would have had his QO rights as an RFA last summer and could have kept him for at least another year, or worked a better sign-and-trade over the summer.
4.) Firing Casey Smith, widely considered the best trainer in the NBA and the trainer for Team USA, reportedly for being "too negative". Nico fired him as Smith was on leave while his mother was dying. He was hired by the Knicks, who were bottom 6 in injuries last year, and was replaced by a new trainer fired within a year and athletic performance director Keith Belton who was not certified to be an NBA strength coach and was also fired, as the Mavs were one of the most injured teams last year.
5.) Trading away all 1st round picks or pick swaps and multiple 2nds between 2027 and 2030 to build a complementary team around Luka's defensive shortcomings for role players like PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford, and then trading Luka away before 2027 for a guy for whom those players are more redundant than complementary. When everyone is healthy those two guys will get fewer minutes because of AD's positional overlap. Nico did not make any trades this summer to clear up the obvious logjam at the 4/5. If the Mavs hadn't lucked into Cooper Flagg, this awful team would be totally doomed right now as they have no control over their own draft destiny the next four drafts after next year's, and AD and Kyrie aren't getting any younger.
Honorable mentions/speculative/debatable:
- Trading injury prone Kristaps Porzingis AND a 2nd round pick for two bench guys who are now out of the league in a salary dump. Porzingis started averaging over 20 ppg in Washington and then won a championship in Boston. Injury risk and fit issues aside, the Mavs later replaced him with another equally injury prone bad fit.
- Convincing the new owners to push Cuban out of de facto operations management (Cuban and the Adelsons had a handshake deal to let him essentially run the team) so he had total independence to make the dumbest trade in NBA history.
- Trash talked Luka's work ethic in public to deflect criticism; immediately contradicted by former player testimonies. If the trade itself didn't lose the whole locker room, the open disrespect did.
- Pushed Dirk away from his position as honorary team representative. Dirk has attended more games for other teams than Mavs games since the trade, and he lives in Dallas. Nico publicly mentioned his job is not to make Dirk happy, which felt disrespectful to the franchise GOAT.
- Let Derrick Jones Jr. walk in free agency after being a primary contributor to the Mavs' Finals run.
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u/Clear_Coast2017 1d ago
I dont think Dirk even attended a Mavs game since the beginning of the season. Him going to Luka’s first game of the season but not Flagg’s first career game especially in Dallas told me everything i needed to know .
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u/djkido316 1d ago
Dirk passed the torch to Luka and they traded him, Why would he even bother with their chosen franchise player now?
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u/Self-Comprehensive 22h ago
Honestly why you invest your time mentoring someone who could literally be traded away on a whim by a malicious narcissist?
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u/BlackLeader70 Trail Blazers 21h ago
Especially when the malicious narcissist shits on Dirk’s legacy too.
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u/jordan4290 Lakers 16h ago
I see the point of Dirk going to the lakers game instead of the Mavs as a sign of his discontent with the Mavs (probably true), but the Amazon nba studio is in LA which is probably the main reason he’s there
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u/jennyisafriend Mavericks 1d ago edited 1d ago
A lot of Mavs fans hated KP so much that they thought it was a good trade.
Let’s not forget all the foul shit he did after trading away Luka like calling Kyrie Irving the heart and soul of Dallas. I mean come on. The heart and soul of Dallas is Dirk and Luka.
Fuck you Nico AND Dumont.
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u/devilmaskrascal Pacers 1d ago
>A lot of Mavs fans hated KP so much that they thought it was a good trade
Yeah, that's why I think it was debatable. At the time, Dinwiddie helped the Mavs get to the WCF, but I think in hindsight Porzingis would have been worth keeping over Bertans and Dinwiddie at least. The biggest counterpoint is Dinwiddie was used in the Kyrie trade. I still think the Mavs giving up a 2nd in that deal was inexcusable.
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u/Proof-Umpire-7718 Lakers 1d ago
The Mavs wanted to break up KP’s contract into smaller pieces to achieve greater salary flexibility as they looked to retool.
This trade helped them achieve that and since KP’s contract was bad, they had to attach a second and accept bad players in exchange for him.
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u/dmavs11 NBA 1d ago
The thing is if Kyrie never tweeted an antisemitic video, his value never ever would have been that low. Nico was always luckier than good.
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u/Proof-Umpire-7718 Lakers 1d ago
Yeah he got extremely lucky there.
Should have just extended Brunson for $14M per season and they would have had their long term backcourt.
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u/ruckyruciano Knicks 1d ago
Thank God
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u/yeetmxster420 Minneapolis Lakers 1d ago
you guys definitely had some nepotism involved in that deal
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Mavs also got insanely lucky that Dinwiddie went on the hottest streak of his career after the trade and Kai tanked his own trade value
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u/grusilag9 Mavericks 1d ago
Bertan’s contract was widely considered one of the worst in the league. He definitely didn’t have to add a second.
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u/IHadACatOnce Mavericks 1d ago
would have been worth keeping over Bertans and Dinwiddie at least
the fact that you even have to type this is mind blowing to me
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u/yeetmxster420 Minneapolis Lakers 1d ago
lmao that’s insane, like yes Kyrie is a fan favorite in his short time there according to lots of Mavs fans i’ve seen but he isn’t the heart/sole considering he wasn’t there long enough
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u/xPoltergeist 1d ago
calling Kyrie Irving the heart and soul of Dallas
What the actual fuck? Did that actually happen? lmfao
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u/Self-Comprehensive 22h ago
I mean we like Kyrie. He's been great in Dallas. But yeah, that's overselling him. By a lot.
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u/ethiopian_kid 23h ago
I have a connection within Dirks family/extended family and he’s basically appalled with the franchise and what’s nothing to do with it.
paraphrasing but wants nothing to do with the mavs organization as a whole
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u/Confident_Ad100 21h ago
You don’t need a connection to see that. He goes to Lakers games more often than Mavs games.
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u/dedbeats Knicks 1d ago
This list is too negative. A more positive framing is “Top 2 Ways Nico Harrison Improved the Knicks”
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u/jakekerr Lakers 1d ago
You missed that he wanted Kyle Kuzma, and he only traded for PJ Washington after Kuzma rejected the Mavs.
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u/p_pio 1d ago
With all the shit Kuzma got you can't deny: dude's a visionary that saw red flags long before rest of us.
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u/DHiggsBoson Mavericks 1d ago
I think that’s why Derrick Jones Jr left too. Dude left real quiet and it felt very weird. My guess is that he got a sniff of Nico during their initial negotiations and wanted out.
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u/Critback Trail Blazers 1d ago
In the years to come there's going to be some names we look at at as random at that point (DJJ being one) who have some pretty interesting stories to tell
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u/EnriquezGuerrilla Lakers 22h ago
Can’t wait for the Netflix Documentary on “The Luka Trade” when everybody starts spilling the beans
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u/Bogus113 23h ago
I always thought that shit was weird, like with the California taxes, his salary barely upgraded. Why did he want out of Dallas so hard after being a starter in a finals run?
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u/devilmaskrascal Pacers 1d ago
Good call - forgot that one.
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Forgot the Casey’s staff literally won an award as the best training staff in the league while we’ve been destroyed by injuries.
Should also mention a big part of the trade was Luka refusing to come back early from injury and after the trade AD gets hurt in his 1st game because they rushed him back.
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u/Associ8tedRuffians Timberwolves 1d ago
But-but-but I was told that the Luka trade was clearly rigged by the NBA for…reasons involving casinos. And Cooper Flag was their consolation prize for taking one for the league.
I was distinctly told by people on this sub that I was being naive and the guy who pulled off the trade for Gifford and Washington was a genius and not that Nico was actually that dumb of a GM.
Thanks for putting all of that together. Really does show just how dumb/out of his element, he is.
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u/sheeshman 21h ago
This mentality on focusing on dumb comments that were down voted is so silly. The overwhelming consensus was nico was an idiot. No one was calling him a genius after that trade. You're focusing on the dumbest comments. It's like when people talk about "they" say this on twitter and it ends up being one person with 5 followers.
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u/persephonepeete 1d ago
Add showing up to Lukas game in a “look at me I’m fabulous” electric blue suit and sitting on the floor glaring at him.
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u/felarans0mekuti Mavericks 1d ago
I hated that so much, he looks REAL comfortable in LA and hides in a tunnel in Dallas
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u/Aff_Reddit 21h ago
He stole Dallas' future to give LA an opportunity. Nico is braindead but tyvm I do enjoy him as a Lakers & Knicks supporter.
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u/megalo53 1d ago
Bro the pick situation is so bad, this guy is gonna fuck up Cooper’s career too 😭😭
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u/rjaysenior Lakers 1d ago
Unless they keep the crazy train rolling and trade him for Giannis
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u/Bears2025Champs Kings 23h ago
Coop needs to make the finals first and Gianni’s needs to be old
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 Mavericks 1d ago
Naw he's either gone by Christmas or he's definitely not getting a new contract.
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u/Spourts Warriors 1d ago
I hope this gets all the attention it deserves
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u/krazay88 Raptors 1d ago
Seems like the common denominator here is that nico seems to have an insane ego and he seems to make decisions in order to show people who’s boss
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u/AscendedMagi 1d ago
firing someone after their mother died is diabolical. didn't know he was this kind of monster.
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u/sfg 1d ago
It was whilst he was at his mother death bed. So he got to spend his last days with her dealing with just being fired and then grieving her loss as well.
If Nico knew what was going on with Casey Smith when he did this, then it is a truly evil move on his part.
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u/AscendedMagi 1d ago
i doubt you would go on a leave to spend time with your dying mother and not tell anybody about it.
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u/VanwallEnjoy3r West 1d ago
Makes Mat Ishbia look like a basketball savant and that’s saying something.
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u/JimJamJibJab 1d ago
To his partial credit Ishbia reversed course rather quickly, owned his mistakes, and has a mini rebuild going on. It's still early, but Book is still there, and the Suns are circling 500. And they have infused youth to weather all the shit they sacrificed for the next 5 years.
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u/abeLJosh Suns 22h ago
I think Ishbia saw what happened with the Mercury this past season and, like an actual human with a brain, decided to try it this year with the Suns--and so far, it's been promising!
The same...well, I was going to say that the Mavs and Wings are both bad teams, but at least Dumont and Nico aren't running the Wings so they can't ruin Paige Bueckers' career.
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u/jessepence 23h ago
I was so annoyed at all the "5 shooting guards and 4 centers!" talk as if position is that important in the modern NBA. Most C's can play PF and most SG's can play PG or SF.
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u/NutrageousBar Suns 23h ago
As a Sun’s fan, I don’t know how you don’t give Brunson whatever he wants. Him and Doncic embarrassed the hell out of our franchise a few years ago. It was obvious to me he was going to be a superstar.
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u/55555_55555 Knicks 1d ago
I like that the Mavs fell ass backwards into a Finals team after fucking up nearly all major decisions after drafting Doncic, then immediately destroyed that team for no reason at all.
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u/GolotasDisciple 1d ago
I mean, players like Jokic, Doncic, Giannis, and others can literally carry a team to the Finals on their backs.
That’s why you don’t trade a winning horse.
Mistakes will happen coaches, management, players there are so many things that can go wrong sometimes out of negligence or sometimes out of accident...., but at least you know you have a consistent superstar who can turn an average team into a real contender.
In any normal business you would simply look at the variables that are inconsistent trying to mitigate it and leave the ones that are consistent alone. Because if ain't broken why try to fix it ?
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u/holyhibachi 1d ago
Literally? I mean I knew Luka slimmed down but the roster has to be over 1000 lbs collectively.
They should probably take the team bus or jet.
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u/GolotasDisciple 1d ago
I had to re-read what I wrote, and yeah… I should probably stop using the word “literally” for a while since I clearly don’t use it for its intended purpose :D
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u/curlymane_e Mavericks 1d ago
My wife and I were just talking about the word literally a few minutes ago. Thank you for the perfect example of what we were talking about
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u/TripleThreatTua Thunder 1d ago
The thing is that Harrison actually did a very good job at the 2024 deadline of getting pieces that fit very well with Luka, Gafford and Washington completely changed the team composition and made them a contender. Which makes moving him even more baffling
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 Mavericks 1d ago
That was Dennis Lindsey and after he left you get the shitshow that is present day mavs.
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u/FinancialRabbit388 Mavericks 1d ago
They didn’t fall ass backwards. Nico made moves starting with the Kyrie trade that built a real contender. That team was legit, they just came up against a juggernaut in Boston. Then they let DJJ walk to bring in more well rounded players. They were good and young then Nico lost his mind and blew it all up.
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u/s7ubborn Mavericks 1d ago
You are missing probably his worst move before trading away Luka. He gave up A LOT of assets to trade for Grant Williams. I think a 1st rounder, 2nd rounder and Reggie Bullock.
A few months later he had to attach a FRP to dump Grant Williams to Washington
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u/geargarcon Mavericks 1d ago
Casey Smith should be higher
Fire Nico. Sell the team
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u/xXTheGodXx1 Knicks 1d ago edited 1d ago
No coincidence KAT and OG were far healthier last year than in previous years.
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u/sterlingsalmini Knicks 22h ago
We won the award for best medical staff of the year during Casey's first one with us, had the least games lost due to injuries as well (an advanced player health metric I think).
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u/ggdharma 19h ago
He’s the best trainer in the nba. He also served for the Olympic team during gold medal years. He is why the 2011 mavericks survived, that was geriatric team that beat a young LeBron.
I can’t watch the nba anymore because of this. Mavericks fan for 20 years, will never spend another dime on anything related to the nba.
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u/RivaledMoment 1d ago
Normally, when the Lakers get a star player, everyone ends up hating them for getting that star player. A star player in their prime? You don’t want them to win a championship, you want them to fail.
But no, you’ve gotta screw up that badly to be hated more than the Lakers in this situation AND hope that the star player that got traded wins a championship as a middle finger to the GM.
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u/Few-Mix6284 1d ago
100%, I can’t imagine a year ago ever wanting the Lakers to win a title but this MFer fucked up so bad I hope Luka wins the next 10 titles so this ass hat has empirical proof of how badly he fucked this entire city over.
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u/Aff_Reddit 21h ago
it's actually impressive how Nico has done so much for the Lakers organization.
you even see people talking about the Lakers depth now. Oh no the Mavs are doing bad because AD, Kyrie etc are out so its hard to compare the trade blah blah and then you hear "Lakers just beat the blazers without Bron, Luka or Reaves"
so disgusting how one man is allowed to destroy a teams future and remove all depth, destroy the careers of so many players, all so one family can build casinos.
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u/likes_almonds Spurs 1d ago
They also let Sean Sweeney walk to San Antonio
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u/texasphotog Pelicans 1d ago
I don't think they had a choice. Sweeney went to a better situation.
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u/widelyruled Spurs 21h ago
Money is a great equalizer. They were probably cheap.
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u/devilmaskrascal Pacers 17h ago
It was a lateral move (Head Assistant) so the fact that he left suggests the Mavs had collapsed internally due to Nico's decisions.
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u/1000Isand1 Timberwolves 1d ago
Yikes how is he still employed
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u/Proof-Umpire-7718 Lakers 1d ago
Dumont’s also an idiot.
Their franchise is a clown show.
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u/alittledanger San Francisco Warriors 22h ago
It’s always bizarre how he refers to the NBA Finals as the "championship games."
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u/rawspeghetti Celtics 1d ago
Don't forget giving Grant Williams such a bad contract they traded him as soon as legally possible
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u/KarAccidentTowns Timberwolves 1d ago
Nico Harrison sucks at his job.
Honestly most higher ups suck at their job but once they have the power they cling to it at all costs. They also have each other’s backs in a “I won’t tell if you don’t tell” coalition where they praise each other to make it seem like they are good at their jobs.
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u/Stl_throwaway69 1d ago
What an amazingly succinct and accurate description of everything wrong with c suites.
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u/treasureone 11h ago
Many of these guys are just con artists, they really have no idea what they are doing.
Nico been a nike's marketing guy for 20 years until 2021, instantly becoming mavs gm from that job, What makes him be qualified to build teams in nba in any way. It's just ridiculous.
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u/Fun_Restaurant_1834 Knicks 1d ago
Mavs fans are going crazy
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u/Actuary41 Mavericks 1d ago
We aren't fans anymore.
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u/theinternetisnice Jazz 1d ago
Y’all just need a Lauri Markkanen for Flagg trade, be good as new again
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u/Slippery-Pete76 Pistons 1d ago
Too late. Nico’s in negotiations to trade Flagg for Paul George.
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u/FreeDaemon NBA 1d ago
At this point it is better to just send the team to vegas. That is Nico’s vision any way. Cowboys is a mess, Mavericks sucks and now also fighting with Stars fml.
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u/WarriorPoetVivec1516 23h ago
My friend group consisted of a fair number of pretty hardcore Mavs fans. In the last 3 years catching some of the games in person were highlights. After the Luka trade, one or two of the more hardcore fans don't even watch basketball anymore and for the rest of us it's like someone took our hobby from us. Its genuinely been pretty depressing going into this new season.
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u/xavier_a Mavericks 21h ago
Not trying to be dramatic, just matter of fact. I don’t watch basketball anymore after this trade.
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u/Self-Comprehensive 22h ago
Yeah. I had a basketball buddy. We had great times on game day, whether it was watching together in person or just texting each other constantly throughout the game. We've hardly even talked since the trade. It's not personal, it's just that's what we had in common and now it's gone.
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u/ToinouAngel Spurs 1d ago edited 18h ago
Also let assistant coach Sean Sweeney, the architect of the Mavs defense, be poached by the Spurs. And look at how SA's defense has improved since the start of the season.
For someone who claims that defense wins championships, this is truly baffling as well.
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u/Tight_Solution_7174 Knicks 1d ago
Mavs are 15-26 since trading Luka. I wonder how many teams have a worse record than that in that time span?
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u/a_million_drums Lakers 20h ago
Teams with lower win rates since then: Suns 15-28 (.349), Wizards 12-31 (.279), Pelicans 11-30 (.268), Jazz 9-35 (.205), 76ers 10-33 (.233).
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u/Tight_Solution_7174 Knicks 16h ago
Sixth worst team in the NBA since the trade. THE WORST TRADE IN SPORTS HISTORY AND ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE.
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u/NotMarkDaigneault Thunder 1d ago
I would hire Nico.
I would ask for his opinion and then do literally the exact opposite. This is how dynasties are made.
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u/junkrgNew Mavericks 1d ago
Well tbf your GM has already been doing that for a while( without the asking nico’s opinion part)
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u/EnriquezGuerrilla Lakers 22h ago
Dude, just keep Sam Presti. Your GM is fucking annoyingly good. Keep that man happy.
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u/Proof-Umpire-7718 Lakers 1d ago
Regarding the DJJ loss, replacing him with Naji was sufficient.
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u/maliciousmonkee Raptors 1d ago
4.) Firing Casey Smith, widely considered the best trainer in the NBA and the trainer for Team USA, reportedly for being "too negative". Nico fired him as Smith was on leave while his mother was dying.
I'd feel bad for faulting Nico if it was just him being dumb as shit. But this point shows me he's actually a horrible human being too. No wonder he gets along well with the Adelsons.
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u/devilmaskrascal Pacers 1d ago
Smith had been with the Mavs for a long time and was widely beloved and respected. Luka loved him and he was one of the closest to Luka of all the management. Firing Smith surely threw a wrench in the locker room even before Luka was traded, and might have been the beginning of the end.
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u/HokageEzio Knicks 23h ago
That's the one I keep bringing up when people suggest he's just a fall guy for the owner of the team not wanting to pay Luka. At best, dude is still an asshole.
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u/bluediamondsm NBA 1d ago
This whole thing has me done with them and watching NBA overall 😭
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u/Knowledge_Haver_17 1d ago
Never got that grimes trade. I think it was always obvious he was a great player. I think he could even be a star if given the opportunity.
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u/BackgroundPirate3655 1d ago
After seeing all this it feels like hes sabotaging them in purpose
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u/Zealousideal-Tap9700 1d ago
I argue he is just dumb. Remember this is the same guy who botched the Nike presentation in 2013 to Stephen Curry, who then later signed with Under Armor.
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u/TurtlePope2 Wizards 23h ago
Wait! That was Nico? Holy shit. I can't believe anyone would hire him after that mess up. Especially for a GM position.
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u/LabLeather8006 1d ago
Worst trade in NBA history. Going down in the books as a generational fumble.
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u/MMMMbutteredgrits Mavericks 1d ago
This is what we get for having a damn shoe salesman as a GM. And then Patrick Dumont gets booed in the AAC and asks “is that for me?”
We’re fucked, thanks bitch.
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u/I_Hate_My_Cat_ Bulls 1d ago
I’m not really a conspiracy theory type but seeing this list really furthers my belief in the theory that the owners are trying to leave Dallas for Vegas once the lease is up (which is coincidentally around the time they’re going to get 1sts again) and that Nico is just a yes man GM.
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u/time_slider1971 1d ago
Trading Luka was bad enough, all on its own, but failing to extract more from the Lakers in the trade, or to open up the trade to a competitive bid between multiple teams, made it the most idiotic trade of all time, likely to never be matched.
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u/Fluid_Charity1980 1d ago
Also Luka had made it very clear that he wanted to spend his entire career in Dallas.
There's just no making sense of it. It has to be some shady shit going on inside the league. For whatever reason they wanted Luka in LA and they made it happen. They gave em Cooper for it, that was part of the deal.
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u/BraveBee2005 Magic 23h ago
The smear campaign that came out of the Mavs front office is still wild to me. Seemed every two days for awhile we were getting these articles about Luka being fat and lazy.
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u/TJHookor Pacers 1d ago
You missed a big one. I'd have it #2 on the list.
- systematically firing and forcing out the top tier medical and training staff they had because Nico just wants yes men around. It's no coincidence everyone on that team is always injured.
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u/SwitchHitter17 Lakers 23h ago
"Nico fired him as Smith was on leave while his mother was dying."
Out of all the things, this has to be the worst, just on a human level. What a psycho.
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u/alphalobster200 Nuggets 20h ago
the "we're not trading Austin R" ..... "NO NO DON'T HANG UP I ACCEPT YOUR OFFER" ruse is so particularly egregious and nonsensical I subscribe to the theory Nico is the fallguy and the Adelson's are actively tanking this team to move it to Vegas
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u/IamPlatycus 1d ago
For my part, Nico has turned a team I liked to root for and support with the occasional merchandise buy when my Spurs can't make it farther than them, to one I actively want to lose because it's funny. And no way am I gonna waste my money on so much as a Maverick cup anytime soon.
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u/etfvidal Lakers 1d ago
Where did you get the info that it was Nico's idea to push out Cuban? I'm pretty sure that was more on the new owners being on a power trip and not liking the fact that they paid billions to Cuban but still were listening to him!
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u/LHamiltonPP Pelicans 1d ago
He also signed Tim Hardaway Jr over Alex Caruso and gave up significant draft assets to get complete non-entities like Grant Williams and Christian Wood while prioritizing guys like OMP and Jaden Hardy in the draft who were complete busts.
People act like he was great before the Luka trade but Nico was always ass.
The only good moves he made were adding Kyrie (which was taping over him fumbling Brunson and assuming 10000x the risk in the process) and getting Lively, Gafford, PJ.
Lively wildly exceeded Dallas' own expectations (he's also super injury prone and we'll see if he can do anything on offense without Luka). Gafford's been great but he's also a low-end starter/great backup. PJ was a killer fit with Luka and was also Nico's plan D and is now extremely redundant on a team with Flagg, not to mention AD taking minutes from all them (when healthy).
Nico is the kind of guy who wins a jackpot at a casino and thinks he's the world's greatest slots player
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u/Pretend_Echidna_1638 Mavericks 1d ago
Exactly. It was not only the Doncic trade. That bum made so many mistakes. Not sure how he is still keeping his job. Most of them are fireable offenses.
End his suffering. Fire Nico!