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I listened to Mike Marshall's entire interview (it's almost an hour long), and there are some things that are truly bad - but almost all of them are problems with understanding how an NBA team is supposed to operate, and incredibly poor communication with people in general. The playoff bonus is particularly appalling. Marshall (the Mavs media manager with a staff of 22 I think) never had much communication with Nico in general, but the meetings post-Doncic trade were brutal. Everyone was pissed off, and everyone in the organization was getting hammered in the media. They couldn't control it. No one knew what to do, and no one helped in any constructive way. Basically the media people were just told to go fix it.
Yes, it was bad and may still be bad. When Cuban took over, he had the wisdom to keep a lot of people in place. These people simply didn't understand what they were doing. What truly threw the new owners for a loop was that the NBA lost a ton of revenue because of television broadcast issues last year and Amazon had not fully materialized at that point. The Mavericks didn't build this loss of revenue into their model. I don't know why that mattered really considering the money they have, but apparently it did. The Doncic trade made everything much worse.
The NBA Draft made things markedly better, but by that time Marshall had found another job. I'm not sure where things stand now.
The entire Mike Marshall interview is here. This is the video referenced by the Sports Illustrated article above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Co-rYRQ6o
I got the impression Nico was able to take advantage of a power vacuum right after the sale. Essentially he hardly needed to answer to anyone. I'm not sure that's changed now but I suspect it has. The last sentence of the SI article pretty much sums it up from the fan perspective.
I listened to Mike Marshall's entire interview (it's almost an hour long), and there are some things that are truly bad - but almost all of them are problems with understanding how an NBA team is supposed to operate, and incredibly poor communication with people in general. The playoff bonus is particularly appalling. Marshall (the Mavs media manager with a staff of 22 I think) never had much communication with Nico in general, but the meetings post-Doncic trade were brutal. Everyone was pissed off, and everyone in the organization was getting hammered in the media. They couldn't control it. No one knew what to do, and no one helped in any constructive way. Basically the media people were just told to go fix it.
Yes, it was bad and may still be bad. When Cuban took over, he had the wisdom to keep a lot of people in place. These people simply didn't understand what they were doing. What truly threw the new owners for a loop was that the NBA lost a ton of revenue because of television broadcast issues last year and Amazon had not fully materialized at that point. The Mavericks didn't build this loss of revenue into their model. I don't know why that mattered really considering the money they have, but apparently it did. The Doncic trade made everything much worse.
The NBA Draft made things markedly better, but by that time Marshall had found another job. I'm not sure where things stand now.
The entire Mike Marshall interview is here. This is the video referenced by the Sports Illustrated article above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Co-rYRQ6o
I got the impression Nico was able to take advantage of a power vacuum right after the sale. Essentially he hardly needed to answer to anyone. I'm not sure that's changed now but I suspect it has. The last sentence of the SI article pretty much sums it up from the fan perspective.
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