(11-11-2025, 02:58 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Hello, I supported Nico Harrison, and my name is Chad. 

I advocated for the guy who ended up responding to our finals run by executing one of the worst trades in NBA history.

I just want to own that I cheered the Nico hiring and advocated for the possibility of him being a good GM. I specifically remember arguing with the esteemed Mr. Gump for a good chunk of time, claiming that a successful executive can switch industries, while Gump pointed out that a basketball expert would be better than a shoe salesman. 

I like to own where I was wrong, but I also like to point out when others were right. 

F Gump, you were right about Nico. It would have been better to hire a basketball GM than a shoe salesman.

(11-16-2025, 09:39 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Nico was/is a fantastic example of hubris and ego being your downfall.

He DID make some incredible moves. He did build a competent finals team.  But its all for naught. His one transgression was enough to outdo anything and he became persona-non-grata. Good riddance.

Hopefully the next guy understands how to connect with the heart of the team.

(11-16-2025, 09:57 AM)FireNicoHarrison Wrote: Trade the only playmaker on the team for a big men was way over than stupid or even a fantastic example of hubris and ego being your downfall.

I still doubt that he made that move without talk to the coach.

Maybe not now, maybe not next year but trust me, we will know what really happened and WHO were all the people involved. It' will not be good for the league.

(11-16-2025, 05:57 PM)mvossman Wrote: The league had nothing to with it.  These conspiracy issues need to end.  As bad as that trade was, this team was too good to be in the lottery at the time of the trade.  It took another terrible trade and catastrophic injuries to keep the team out of the playoffs and they were still one win away.  There was nothing in the team's behavior that remotely suggested they were trying to get into the lottery.  

You would have to believe that the league cooked up this elaborate scheme to get Luka to the Lakers, had Nico make the dumbest trade in NBA history in the middle of the night, that Nico lead a masterful tank job that nobody could see including getting most of his best players injured, that the league was then going to rig the lottery to give Nico the number 1 pick on less than 2% odds, and that the league was then going to trust a man who just got fired and is now considered the worst NBA executive ever was not going to tell anybody what happened based on some NDA signed.  Do you not see how unlikely that scenario is?

(11-17-2025, 12:03 PM)FireNicoHarrison Wrote: Nobody said that last year top pick was in the package at the time, but after Mavs entered in the lottery that was a good chance to payback us... Mostly after Silver speech at the ASG (i never seen a commissioner does something like that. Never).
But the city was still in riot so they hoped that land Flagg to the Mavs could be the "panacea".

I don't think Harrison is so stupid or so naive, he is in this world from almost 30years... So or Silver forced the trade or it was a Dumont-Buss secret agreement... They sold the Lakers 3 months after the trade, you can't sold a franchise like the Lakers in 3 months. No way. Doncic was in the deal.

Anyway our fans were be screwed, maybe not this year and even next year but Harrison sooner or later will tell the truth or at least we will see which was his payback for destroy his NBA career.
Trust me.

(11-17-2025, 03:10 PM)omahen Wrote: How do you explain that all the other owners of teams that lost the lottery here, especially teams that were tanking hard for Cooper Flagg, simply keep quiet and are satisfied with the league rewarding Mavs to send Luka to LA? I can't buy such a conspiracy theory, as there are too many losers here and at least some of them would open their mouth and demand the league to be fair. Whats the point for them if everything is rigged?

(11-17-2025, 11:11 PM)FireNicoHarrison Wrote: If you work in the league you know how It works... I didn't see any GM talk about the trade so, under your logic, did they think it was just a normal trade? 
Players are more free to talk about NBA stuffs and their reactions were absurd.

Anyway Doncic to LA is good for every NBA team, the league had very big audience problems... And the sale of the Lakers setted the franchise price soooooo high.

Try to think how many problems solved one single trade.

But Silver himself talked about this stuffs, even the no USA market as a new target.

Good Lakers team is better others 29 teams. BRI is still here.

(11-18-2025, 04:48 AM)omahen Wrote: You work in the league to know how it works?  

I think a lot of owners are not in just for the money. They want to win. If everything is just rigged, whats the point then for them. Of course the trade was absurd, but it doesn't need to be a conspiracy to make it reasonable why it happened. The explanation (Nico not liking Luka and fooling inexperienced Dumont) sounds very convincing. 

And on a personal note - if everything is just rigged, why would I, as a fan, want to follow it than? It would just be a circus.  I mean, I like to go to circus every once in a while to have some fun, but no way I would follow it daily. Why would you want to follow it and spend your time and money?

(11-18-2025, 08:00 AM)ThisIStheYear Wrote:   Now a lot of MFFLs will probably be dead before the team is good again.