Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[Scott41theMavs]

For a little perspective...
When Nellie blew up the Mavs post Zachanelli there was much lamenting losing the futures of Jackson and Mashburn and how bad those trades ended up as far as assets returned etc.
However, many people (myself included) were happy to see anything other than Zach the Hack in the GM control chair. BTW the guy who sabotaged this franchise more than any other person from the outside was Rick Pitino who counseled Jamal Mashburn to basically quit on the team until he got himself traded, as well as telling Nellie that he believe Samaki Walker had as much potential as Antoine, thus the foundation for what IMO served as the worst trade of the first 30 years of the franchise: Eric Montross.

Anyway the point is that one of the most intelligent posters of the '90s, Ron Haneberg, never gave Nellie any credit, other than setting the franchise back to the day Roy Tarpley was banned. (He was right that Nellie would name himself coach) I personally thought Zach made the far worse trade in giving up Kidd and killing the cap for years by taking back AC (solid gold) Green's contract... There was a pretty even divide between the two camps and it made for some fairly heavy reading on the old DMN boards and later at other sites.

You want intelligent conversation - we need a poll:
Who would you want as GM of the Mavericks tomorrow?
A) Nico
B) Donnie
C) Cubes
D) A member of the Jones family
E) Other

Nellie was not the GM when the Montross trade happened. In fact, one of the first things he did in interviews when he got here was to lament being a bad team without a first round pick. Like, you know, the Mavs are going to be in several of the next few years.

E wins it for me. Dennis Lindsay would be good, given the small window of GMing excellence we had when he was here.