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Yes, he hired Harrison, but it was to be the "NBA relationship" arm of a front office Cuban, himself, planned to continue running. Harrison was intended to be additive in an area Cuban had self diagnosed as a weakness of his front office, but not an actual GM, as we understand the term. As with all things Cuban, this is simultaneously a reasonable logic to defend the decision and a huge problem, as THAT was an opportunity to actually FIX the front office (kind of like the one they have right now) and they obviously failed to do so. 

You put this way better than I would have.  Well done haha.  I think it was the free agency summer of 2019 when Cuban/Donnie and the Mavs and Mitch Kupchak and the Hornets were the two teams waiting for the moratorium to expire to discuss free agent deals.  The other 28 teams had already discussed things using back channels.  Nico was hired ONLY because he had those back channel connections through Nike.

I don't think Cuban ever intended Nico to be the head basketball decision maker without anyone to overrule him.  The way the entire saga unfolded, it ended up being the worst case scenario.  The guy that was hired for his connections was suddenly running the team.

Dumont and Adelson know nothing about basketball.  They don't care about basketball.  They are the typical billionaires that are a blight on humanity.  When they have $10 billion dollars, their only focus is turning it into $20 billion dollars.  When they have $100 billion dollars, their only focus is turning it into $200 billion dollars. Maybe I'm unAmerican but I don't worship billionaires like a segment of our society. They are bad people.

To me, being a fan is more than just the chances of winning a title.  Having these people own the team is embarrassing.