Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[hakeemfaan]

I will say, if I was a PR manager and I was hired by the Mavs to fix this mess, the first thing I’d do is fire Nico (obviously) but they’d have to make him a pariah. They have to audibly humiliate him as much as they can and separate the brand, the Mavericks, from Nico. Throw him under the bus with every single hit piece possible. Create the narrative that Nico created a dictatorial regime and seized control after Cuban sold and went rogue.


Then have Dumont either step down and be replaced by Miriam Adelsons’ son OR have him make a public address taking this head on. He needs to publicly admit he made a mistake and an oversight. He’d need to say that he spent the last 2 months learning a lot about the city of Dallas, their values, and basketball as a whole and while he cannot undo this mistake, he will make sure it would never happen again. His speech has to come off as a sincere apology with clear cut expectations.

Finally they’d have to hire an established GM with a stellar track history historically. A brand name. (Bob Myers comes to mind). That’d be my game plan to win back the fans and city. Not sure it’d work. But if they really want to get ahead of this, and quell the uproar, that’d be my game plan.

If the product is good fans will come back eventually. If you want them to come back right away then just firing Nico and a public apology from Dumont to Luka and the fans will bring a lot of fans back. Unlike some who have defected most of the fan base has no other basketball team to root for. We also genuinely like the current players.  We are just looking for a way back to root for our team and that bar is not very high. .