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[mvossman]

I know Cuban was hands on at that time, but I believe Nico's title was General Manager and President of Basketball Operations. I'm not going to argue against the point that Cuban was hands on of course.

But Nico had all the power, except that he needed a "yes" from the ownership, when he made the Luka trade. 

I get that Nico has a lot of friends in the NBA. I thought about that regarding this topic. I guess I may falsely expect people to relay the facts at rather than misrepresent to protect friend. Factually speaking, this trade was Nico's baby. You don't even have to say anything bad about Nico just report, "Nico got fired by the fans for trading Luka."

Last thing. None of the handful of national talking heads that have called Nico the scapegoat, that I have heard, have said anything about the "fire Nico" chants from the fans. And they've said nothing about the fans being upset with ownership as well. 

The reporting may be based on "he's my dude," but it's still make believe.

I really don't think Nico had that much power.  The previous GM did not, and I don't know why a shoe salesman would have more.  I think Cuban was always the de facto GM and it was more about who he listened to (and it was not always his GM as we know from the fallout of Donnie leaving).  In my mind it was clear that Nico was brought in to help land free agents with his contacts, not run the show.  It was a crazy series of events (like Killer mentioned) that put him in that kind of unbounded power.  Nico must have done a hell of a sales job to convince Dumont he was the reason for everything good (I am guessing that was not Cuban's perspective).