fukk Nico Harrison and the NBA collusion - Official Mavericks '24-'25 Season Thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Nico's a fukking idiot but I don't think that's true.
This team was built around Luka and Nico gave up a lot of draft capital to do it.
Luka and Kyrie were the primary ballhandlers and creatives on the perimeter, especially Luka who constantly setup teammates. We just needed shooters and we got it with Klay and Grimes.
Spencer, Exum and Naji were brought in to alleviate some ballhandling duties but Luka and Kyrie drove the ship.

This trade makes absolutely no fukking sense.

This is 100% on ownership; Nico is just the face for it. He might have gotten sick of Luka personally but trading a player of this magnitude doesn't happen without ownership pushing for and agreeing to it.

I think it's as simple as a MAGA family is used to getting whatever they want and didn't want to pay Luka $300+ million, even though they spent $3.5 billion on the fukking team. They are completely out of their depth with zero feel or insight into owning a sports team.

I posted this in another thread -

The Luka Dončić Trade — My Perspective as an Ex-Mavericks Analytics Staffer Who Spent Two Years Pushing to Trade Him

Eight insights into the Luka-to-Lakers deal, plus a theory about what went wrong and a look into the future

www.roycewebb.com

• Luka plays a brand of basketball that generates raw numbers that overstate his impact. This has gotten better over the last few years but the Mavericks’ own internal models showed him as significantly overrated
• There are questions about Luka’s commitment to doing the things that lead to winning like getting back in transition, rotating on defense, boxing out, being conditioned etc. It appears these questions are much more serious than this sub thinks
• Luka requires very specific team construction to get the best out of him
• This trade would have never happened with Mark Cuban at the helm and Nico Harrison surrounded himself with “yes-men”

In summary the author agreed with the decision to trade him but thought they could’ve gotten more. While the author was with the Mavs he had proposed a Luka for Tatum + picks trade for example.

The most interesting part of the article imo is that the Mavs’ own internal models showed that Luka is overrated, this is especially notable since they have by far the most data on him.

It means the planting of the seeds to trade Luka were done a while ago; long before the new owners came on board. This wasn't a decision they came to recently. Multiple people within the Mavs organization held this belief about trading Luka. The wheels had been set into motion years ago. It's no coindidence the trigger was only pulled when Cuban stopped being a majority owner.

Nico just had the bravery/stupidity to be the one to jump.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

I posted this in another thread -

The Luka Dončić Trade — My Perspective as an Ex-Mavericks Analytics Staffer Who Spent Two Years Pushing to Trade Him

Eight insights into the Luka-to-Lakers deal, plus a theory about what went wrong and a look into the future

www.roycewebb.com

It means the planting of the seeds to trade Luka were done a while ago; long before the new owners came on board. This wasn't a decision they came to recently. Multiple people within the Mavs organization held this belief about trading Luka. The wheels had been set into motion years ago. It's no coindidence the trigger was only pulled when Cuban stopped being a majority owner.

Nico just had the bravery/stupidity to be the one to jump.

Nah this is just a slick way to absolve the Joos (Silver, Adelson and Cuban) and pretend like Nico is the mastermind. Luka being white and Dallas having Utah tendencies makes it easier for local media/fans to put this on him alone.

Don't think for one second, a billionaire Jewess doesn't know how her money is spent.

 

[DigitalGoodTimes]

Get well Kyrie
Just move this team to Vegas already. Raising prices??? I've watched more Lakers games than Mavs since the trade. Can't wait to see #77 in playoffs.

 

[Ashyneezz]

Shut it down, let’s go home

 

[HollywoodP]

as a Lakers fan...I get the collusion angle. It's hard not to think it, when its the most logical reason being presented to us. Mavs owners wanna go back to Vegas where they from. Silver says "fine but you got a superstar and we aint gonna have him wasting his earning potential here while you figure out this move". The commish knows the Lakers are the secret sauce to the NBAs success. Always provide solid ratings. Gave credibility to the inseason tournament. Gave credit to the bubble. Have the face of the league. Stern knew it too. But teams have been making the Lakers overpay in trades, at the very least since Pelinka been the GM...hence the term Lakers tax. Silver a mob boss facilitated this somehow. The league can always find some oil tyc00n who wants a team. Or worst case scenario they find a way to bring Cuban back. It sure doesn't seem like the Adelsons will stay in Dallas. That name is dirt. Worse than Jerry Jones name in Dallas. Then they raise ticket prices. They want dismal ratings and attendance so they have the excuse to move. NBA wants a team in Vegas bad too. We'll know either way in a few years. Silver wants to make his mark. The Adelsons either get the Vegas team or they'll be out of the NBA business altogether.

 

[MikelArteta]

The guy you traded Luka for has played one half

Kyrie gone for the next year and some

Klay is washed

Brunson balling in NYC

Tim Hardaway Jr playing better than any healthy guard on your roster

Derrick Jones Jr having a career year

Quentin Grimes balling out

Luka balling

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Nah this is just a slick way to absolve the Joos (Silver, Adelson and Cuban) and pretend like Nico is the mastermind. Luka being white and Dallas having Utah tendencies makes it easier for local media/fans to put this on him alone.

Don't think for one second, a billionaire Jewess doesn't know how her money is spent.

Nico was the one behind the move.

The Joos ain't got shyt to do with it.

Here's a deeper dive -

Though Doncic is a generational superstar, Harrison had growing concerns about his conditioning and habits off the court. Doncic would experience significant weight fluctuations throughout a season, a problem the organization attempted to address.

To try and take action, the Mavericks started making changes around Doncic in hopes that they would benefit him and make his conditioning more consistent. Per Tim MacMahon and Ramona Shelburne of ESPN, the Mavericks fired former director of player health and performance Casey Smith in 2023, and fired strength coach Jeremy Holsopple and manual therapist Casey Spangler after last season—all staffers that Doncic enjoyed working with.

"They get rid of everybody I like," Doncic told an ESPN source.

The Mavericks’ firings did not work. Per ESPN, Doncic wound up hiring his own personal staff before last season, bringing in Slovenian national team strength coach Anže Maček, physiotherapist Javier Barrio Calvo and Real Madrid nutritionist Lucia Almendros. This only increased the frustrations in the Mavericks organization while not improving Doncic's health.

Nico was firing all the folks on the staff who Luka was close with from 2023 (this was before ownership changed hands). Then Luka brought on his own staff last season.

Nico had really been at odds with Luka for a few years now.

 

[holidayinn21]

Nah this is just a slick way to absolve the Joos (Silver, Adelson and Cuban) and pretend like Nico is the mastermind. Luka being white and Dallas having Utah tendencies makes it easier for local media/fans to put this on him alone.

Don't think for one second, a billionaire Jewess doesn't know how her money is spent.

The person you're replying to has a strong disdain for black men. So take what he's spewing with a grain of salt

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The person you're replying to has a strong disdain for black men. So take what he's spewing with a grain of salt

I'm quoting articles of factual events that happened you dikkriding ass c00n.

Nico was firing members on staff that Luka was close with (leading to Luka hiring his own conditioning staff) before the new owners took over. That is on Nico and nobody else.

That is a fact.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@holidayc00ninn21

Funny how you have the energy to show your face in here but disappeared from all those threads I've quoted you in recently. Coward and a c00n.

 

[holidayinn21]

I'm quoting articles of factual events that happened you dikkriding ass c00n.

Nico was firing members on staff that Luka was close with (leading to Luka hiring his own conditioning staff) before the new owners took over. That is on Nico and nobody else.

That is a fact.

Blah blah blah shut the fukk up

Always giving grace to some random cac. Yeah, the GM has the loudest voice in the Mavs organization. Shut up, hoe

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Blah blah blah shut the fukk up

Always giving grace to some random cac. Yeah, the GM has the loudest voice in the Mavs organization. Shut up, hoe

Giving grace to whom?

I couldn't give a fukk about giving grace to anyone.

I'm telling you what the facts are. The whole organization is to blame, that doesn't take away from the fact Nico was ultimately behind the move. Those "random cacs" weren't even in control when Nico started firing all of Luka's people. The divide that Nico created between him and Luka is all his doing.

You have a hard time comprehending this because all you do is post with an agenda instead sticking to what is objective. You let your emotions control you like a hoe.

 

[Codeine Bryant]

This is 100% on ownership; Nico is just the face for it. He might have gotten sick of Luka personally but trading a player of this magnitude doesn't happen without ownership pushing for and agreeing to it.

I think it's as simple as a MAGA family is used to getting whatever they want and didn't want to pay Luka $300+ million, even though they spent $3.5 billion on the fukking team. They are completely out of their depth with zero feel or insight into owning a sports team.

It's on ownership for being so ignorant and unaware of of professional basketball and the way you would go about operating and constructing an NBA team. To the point where nobody in the ownership group has a modicum of common sense to understand how abominable the thought process of trading away a 25 year old superstar is.

But it's entirely on Nico for being the guy that they ultimately deferred all of that critical thinking and decision making to.
He let his ego get the best of him and now the world sees him as the poser who got absolutely groomed and undressed by Big Bro Rob.

The ownership is dumb enough to go along with anything Nico presents to them. Dumont looks like he could be convinced to drink motor oil because it has more nutritious properties than water.

Nico is the sabotaging PoS that wanted to be the smartest guy in the room and decided to do the unthinkable.

 

[tremonthustler1]

there there

 

[NoMorePie]

Spurs gonna gift y'all a quick lil 2 game winning streak

Every little thing. Is going to be all right.