07-11-2025, 04:02 PM
(07-11-2025, 03:50 PM)mvossman Wrote: If Nico survives it will be because he was very luck with the ping pong balls. I wonder if the above would be your outlook if the lottery goes differently?
I remember some discussion about this right after the trade. Emotionally speaking, Nico can be vindicated by a championship. Or, at the very least, for the Mavs to be substantially better than the Lakers for the next few years.
I think the Flagg good fortune maybe skews the equation a little bit. If the Mavs win a couple of championships, it can be in spite of Nico, rather than because of Nico.
So perhaps it might actually be easier to fire him now.