(02-05-2025, 05:57 PM)RoyTarpleysGhost Wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1i...ective_as/
Insight #8: Nico Harrison surrounded himself with yes men, and the Mavericks' franchise is paying for it.
My time with the Mavericks overlapped with Nico's time as GM for about one year - his first year in charge of an NBA front office.
In that time I realized that Nico did not have a good grasp of which front-office members actually understood basketball. Nor was he able to comprehend that certain people just kept parroting what he was saying, with the goal to be liked by Nico and thus to be promoted.
In some ways, this trade marks the culmination of those developments. With critical voices drowned out and only sycophants rising up the ranks, the people now close to Nico weren't the type that would provide any pushback on this historically awful trade idea.
He doesn’t care about Dallas. Cuban sold team to owners who don’t know basketball. They didn’t want pay Luka that big contract and told him trade Luka. Nico only wanted Ad. He didn’t care what got back. Nico is not planning on being here more than 2-3 years. We will suck after that for a very long time.