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The Mavericks FIRE Nico Harrison! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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And our intern Jared, he's been, he's going to be going in and
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out throughout the show. ESPN reported on Tuesday that
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the Dallas Mavericks have fired general manager Nico Harrison
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after just over Four Seasons of leading the franchise.
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The firing followed a Mavericks loss to the Bucks Monday night,
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dropping them 2-3 and eight and and it's been a bad one, fire
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Nico was the chance echoed throughout the arena the whole
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evening, despite the Mavs being in the game the entire way.
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Meanwhile, Luka Doncic has excelled since he's been traded
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to the Lakers, and the Dallas prize return Anthony Davis has
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missed this game and has played in five games out of 11 so far
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this season. The Lakers have the opposite
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record at 8:00 and 3:00. Even though Luca hasn't had
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LeBron, I'll, I'll say it better.
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LA bum James all season. At the time of the controversial
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trade, Harrison told the rest of the front office in ownership
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that he took full responsibility for the move.
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Less than a year later, the move might even look worse than
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originally feared, leading Mavericks owner DuMont to pull
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the plug on Harrison, The Athletic reports the former
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majority owner Mark Cuban was very frustrated with Harrison
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and still is mad about Harrison not coming to him about Luca and
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the trade. Cuban reportedly told DuMont
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that he knew Harrison was leading the franchise in the
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wrong direction, and DuMont said other NBA owners he spoke with
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hated the trade for the franchise as well.
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I don't know anything about the owner of DuMont.
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What I do know is Mark Cuban built this franchise, this
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franchise that was really going nowhere.
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I remember when they were an expansion franchise and I
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remember, if I'm not mistaken, when Steve Nash was on this
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team, and I remember when Jason Kidd was on this team and Dirk
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Nowinski was on this team and winning champions Championship,
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not championships, championship. I look at The Mavericks
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organization and when you have a player like Luka Doncic, which,
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believe it or not, they traded for in the draft, they moved up
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to get Luka Doncic. Mark Cuban moved up to get Luca.
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And you watch what happened last year at the trade deadline,
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which shocked the world. It really it was the trade that
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everybody heard around the world.
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You got that job, you know that the baseball term.
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Yeah. But the fact here is The
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Mavericks are in position and in a position where nothing has
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worked. They bring in a young kid named
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Cooper Flagg who I still believe could be the future of this
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organization. I don't think he's Luka Doncic.
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Nobody ever thought he was going to be, but I did think he was
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going to be a better two way player.
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I thought he was going to slowly figure things out in the speed
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of the game. He's starting to remind me of a
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guy that play for Duke and that's Christian Leitner.
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And if he's anything close to Christian Laettner, he wasn't a
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good pro. Christian Laettner, I think in
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his career averaged about 11 or 12 points.
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That's not going to get it done as a number one player.
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It it being drafted as the number one pick in the draft.
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And, and really to look at what this team is and really where
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this team has gone in the 1st 11 games of the season is just
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there's a lot to go into. And Nico Harrison, yeah, he's a
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piece of the reason why this team has not flourished in the
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last four years. We all know he traded Luka
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Dodgek, and it was the worst trade ever.
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I heard Kevin Durant say it. I've heard LeBron James say it.
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I've heard everybody say it. So we understand it was a bad
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trade. But guess what?
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Does anybody think that LeBron James wasn't a part of it?
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The LJA, and I say this over and over and over again, LeBron
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James needed and they, the Lakers needed a player.
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And why was the Lakers the only team that was negotiating with
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the Dallas Mavericks? I've said this over and over and
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over again. The Celtics would have given
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them probably Jaylen Brown and maybe a couple of players to get
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Luka Tonjik. I think Jaylen Brown is more of
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an addition than Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is an injury prone
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player. That's what he is.
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And by the way, Flag has not looked good and and and Fish
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could say whatever he wants. That is not I've watched Cooper
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Flag play college ball. I'm a Cooper Flag fan.
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I watched him play for Duke. He has not played well.
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He has not played as well as we expected him to play as a young
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player. I thought he was going to really
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start off really, really strong, averaging between 18 to 20
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points a game. He was not doing that and he's
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not playing the two-dimensional basketball that I thought he was
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going to play when he came into the league.
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I watch basketball more than any sport.
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I follow basketball more than any other sport.
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I've said this many, many times, and I'm a Duke Blue Devil fan.
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So I I fish. I don't care about one game.
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I don't care about one GameStop. With these statistics, he hasn't
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looked good. I don't care.
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You can come in when you want to come in after I'm done with my
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take. I don't care what you see with
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with with Cooper Flake. Cooper Flake has not played
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well. He hasn't.
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I thought he was going to come off a lot stronger.
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I know he's on a bad team, but he still has players around him,
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a lot more players than Luka Doncic does.
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Reeves has played well this year.
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Does any bully anybody believe that Reeves is an elite player
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or a third player on a team on a roster?
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He's had a good season. It's early.
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Let's see as the season moves forward with LeBron James, how
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good Reeves is going to play with the Lakers.
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When he's on the court. And I don't care if he's going
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to get paid. Every NBA player gets paid,
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including the guys on the bench. The fact here is Nico Harrison
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is going to be pointed and pointed to by not just the
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Dallas organization, by the NBA. Saying that he structured the
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opportunity for the Lakers to land Aluka Doncic to give him a
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chance to once again be superior and be a contending team in the
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NBA. Especially in a Western
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Conference that I believe should and will be dominated by OK C
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for the next 5 years. They needed that young superstar
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to take over for LeBron, and I believe that the NBA was
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involved with it. Now, I don't, I'm not going to
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assume anything because I don't have an inside source, but come
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on, guys. You look at the Lakers, they get
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everybody they want. The only player they never got
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was Chris Paul. Think about it.
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Chris Paul was practically traded to the Lakers and then
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David Stern stepped right in and said, Oh, no, this is not
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happening. This is not happening.
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If if Chris Paul was ever traded to the Lakers, you know how many
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championships Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol would have won with
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him? Forget it.
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It wouldn't have been fair it And that's that's the problem
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with sports now. These trios or whatever they
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call them or, and at the time it was starting to Tran, you know,
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transcend into the NBA because we saw Kevin Garnett do and Paul
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Pierce do it and Ray Allen do it.
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I look at the game and the understanding where the game is
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starting to move towards and and obviously you're not going to
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have Steph Curry here anymore. You're not going to have Kevin
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Durant soon. And LeBron James is going to be
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gone. We all know Carmelo Anthony was
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just inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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Chris Paul is still playing on one leg.
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When is he retiring? These old guys are going to be
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gone. Who's going to carry the torch
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and Nico Harris or Harrison had the guy.
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Luka Doncic is a top three player in the league when
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healthy at the top of his game. This guy is one of the best
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offensive players we have ever seen.
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He's an international phenomenon.
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Everybody talks about Yanis and Yokich.
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This guy is just as good as any one of those guys offensively.
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Maybe not defensively, but offensively.
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He can compete with anybody in the NBA.
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And I think that Nico was trying to do the one thing that was
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going to help Dallas, bring a casino back or bring a casino to
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Dallas and help them grow their product.
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To me, the factor here is the reason why ownership took over
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the Dallas Mavericks and took over.
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And Mark Cuban sold a significant portion, practically
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his whole portion and all ownership to DuMont and his
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family. They sold.
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He sold them that because the family wanted to bring in a
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casino. Now, it wasn't working with Luca
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being there. And Luca was complaining behind
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the scenes that he didn't like the way the organization was
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running and being run, and Nico Harrison was behind it.
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And when Nico found out that Luca knew what was going on,
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Nico automatically said probably to ownership, we don't need
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Luka. We could get a lot back for Luka
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Doncic. Let's move him and we'll see how
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everything falls. We're going to have money.
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We're going to have what? We'll add one or two players.
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We'll have draft picks. We can build on this.
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We don't have enough to win right now.
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Meanwhile, the year before the trade, they were in the Finals.
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They were in the Finals with Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic.
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They might have been a player away from being a contender
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again. And Nico Harrison did not like
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Luka Doncic and Mark Cuban did not know anything about this
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straight. As a matter of fact, Mark Cuban
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and Jason Kidd were shocked, shocked when the announcement
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came. And then Nico Harrison and Jason
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Kidd was speaking to the media and Jason's kid, Jason's kid,
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his mouth just dropped. He couldn't believe it.
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Remember when Frabel, Speedy Frabel found out?
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A.J. Brown in, in, in, in a draft
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which traded. Remember that?
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We were sitting there. What did he do?
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What did he do? He got up and he walked out of
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the draft room. Do you not remember that?
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Did you see how he slammed the door when A.J.
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Brown was traded to the Eagles and they made a trade and they
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got a first round draft pick for him and who they draft?
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Trailon Burks. Trailon Burks who's no longer on
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the team and might not even be in the NFL anymore.
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OK. They thought he was another A.J.
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Brown, that he was going to fit like a glove with the Tennessee
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Titans. And ever since they traded A.J.
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Brown, they have not been the same team.
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And Rabel knew his time there was coming to an end.
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He's with OK Fish. You don't have to keep, you
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know, we understand. I'm not going to mention that,
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but that's fine. Harrison is a guy that doesn't
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know the game of basketball. He didn't know how to control
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superstars. He couldn't control Kyrie Irving
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when he moved and he brought Kyrie Irving over there.
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He couldn't control Luka Doncic. He had a roster that actually
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was what very well put together. He made a trade at the trade
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deadline deadline to bring Washington in.
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PJ Washington was a great fit for the team.
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They added some bigs, they added some size.
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That's all they needed to get over the hump to knock off the
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Timberwolves to go to the Finals.
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And then out of nowhere, Nico Harrison decides to move one of
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the best young players in the NBA at the age of 25 to the
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Lakers when there were other teams probably lining up to give
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them a better deal. Anthony Davis is horrible.
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Anthony Davis hasn't stayed healthy for Four Seasons.
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He hasn't been fully see fully healthy.
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And as a matter of fact, I don't think Anthony Davis has played
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more than 68 games in Four Seasons.
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Now. He's played 68 games in in in
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those seasons, but I'm saying in in a full season, he hasn't
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played more than 68 games. And that's the problem with the
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NBA now. LeBron James, Gregg Popovich,
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they've changed the game because they don't care about the
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regular season. They just got to get into the
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playoffs. They got to they got to be they
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have to have home advantage, top three, top 4.
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And that's all it takes if you are a good team to win a
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championship. Nico Harrison right now is
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probably one of those guys that'll never get a job again.
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Billy King, Remember him? Speedy, You remember him next
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legend. Billy King decided.
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OK, and I don't know if anybody remembers this.
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He decided I'm going to bring in Kevin Garnett.
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I'm going to make a trade for Kevin Garnett.
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Paul Pierce. I'm going to bring in those
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guys. Yeah.
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Darren Williams there. I think Darren Williams was
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still there, right, Speedy? I'm pretty sure Darren Williams
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was still there. Made the worst trade.
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Yeah, broke of broke her off. I remember him.
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Owner, Russian owner. He made that trade.
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It was the worst trade in NBA history.
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You know why? Because the Celtics became rich.
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Because with that trade, the Celtics drafted two players that
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you know of right now that are in the NBA and they're
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superstars. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
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They got those two players from that trade.
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They got five first round picks from the Nets to land Kevin
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Garnett. Billy King is never going to get
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AGM job. He's never going to get an
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executive job after what he did with the Nets.
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He's never going to get another job after what he did to the to
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to the the Brooklyn Nets. He set the Nets back about 5 to
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10 years and that's that's even landing Kyrie Irving, that's
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even landing Kevin Durant and James Harden.
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It took a while for that to have actually happened.
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That trade put the Nets in Bean Townville where they're trying
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to sneak out of the hole or trying to find their way out of
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the hole and still to this day are still trying to figure out
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because of what Billy King did. I'm looking at what Fish is
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saying. The Nets had KG, Paul Pierce,
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Jason Terry, Darren Williams, Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson, all
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these guys here. Kevin Garnett was at the tail
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end of his career. Paul Pierce was at the tail tail
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end of his career. Jason Terry was at the the the
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tail end of his career. Darren Williams had how many
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ankle surgeries he was done. Brook Lopez was probably the
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best player on that roster that was still still one of the
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better big men in the NBA. And Joe Johnson washed up
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practically done as well. Everybody thought that was going
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to be a contending team and they weren't.
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Billy King was done within a year and a half.
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Billy King was fired, never got a job again.
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Nico Harrison. Now going back to Nico Harrison,
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I could say the same thing about Nico Harrison.
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Now Nico Harrison is never going to get a job again because no
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NBA owner, no NBAGM is ever going to see this guy or an
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executive is going to see this guy is the right fit, a perfect
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fit to their organization after he made this trade that sets
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this organization back for years.
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And even though they won the draft and I, we all know the
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lottery in the NBA is absolutely plagued because I think the NBA
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is behind it. We all know what David Stern did
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with the Knicks in 1985 and screwed the Knicks for getting
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another first and #1 pick in a draft with Patrick Ewing.
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I believe those balls are not bouncing.
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Those balls are only bouncing. And Adam Silver's pants, and
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maybe he's picking it out of LeBron James's pants while he's
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doing it. This is not a fair draft.
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It's not a fair lottery. How do you go from trading Luka
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Dodgic to winning the lottery when you were probably the 8th
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or 7th worst team going into the draft?
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How do you win the lottery like that?
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There's no possible way unless the NBA was tampering in with it
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and that's what they were doing. And they were trying to save
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Nico Harrison because after he made that Luka Dodgic trade, he
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said, oh, I got a plan. I got a plan in the offseason.
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I got a plan. What was his plan?
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The only plan he made was getting that number one pick and
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Anna Cooper Flagg and maybe trying to save the franchise.
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And it's going to take Cooper Flagg a lot longer than people
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think because Cooper Flagg is still I, I, I'm not going to say
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he's not good or he's not going to transition into a great
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player. He's still a little dry.
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I, I don't think he's the same players he was in college
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basketball. He still needs to figure out
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what his game is and how it fits in the NBA.
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And it's all The game is also different in the NBA than
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college. Of course, and it's a lot faster
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and you could see that it took a little while for Cooper Flag
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over the last couple of weeks to figure out how to put the ball
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in the net. As a matter of fact, his first
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three games, I think he was averaging about 9 or 8 points.
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He has to make sure he. Figures out a razor to get that
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facial hair. That's another thing I, I think
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he needs to go back to what he was doing and what has worked
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for him when he was playing for Duke.
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I so coach K was on a podcast recently and coach K asked, was
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asked, what do you think about Cooper and what type of player
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do you think he's going to be in the NBA?
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And coach K came out and said, I think he's going to be special.
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I think he's got the ability to be a star in this league.
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He just needs the right temperament.
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He needs the right people around him that's going to help him
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grow. So I don't remember who was
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interviewing me. And if I did, I don't want to
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throw him under the bus. He asked him about Kyrie Irving
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and he asked him, well, you coach Kyrie Irving, what what do
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you think about Kyrie? And he says, I coach Kyrie for a
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little bit of time because Kyrie hurt his foot.
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And he didn't really play for me the whole season.
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He was out a significant portion of the time.
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But he's a great leader. He's just a person that
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understands the game a little bit faster than most people.
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And then he asked them, what did he mean by that?
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And he said, well, the game comes fast to Kyrie, but the
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game slows down when Kyrie's on the court.
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And what he's pretty much saying is Kyrie, if Kyrie uses those
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abilities that he has, he's gained over the years and what
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he what Coach K has seen him as a player, Kyrie would be the
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best player in the league. But Kyrie can't handle shutting
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his mouth. Kyrie can't handle being a
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leader. As a matter of fact, Kyrie
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Irving has come out when he went to the Celtics.
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Remember that? And he said when when, when
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everybody was talking about leadership and how the fans were
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booing him. And I remember when he threw
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something at the fan, he got sued.
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Remember that? That whole craziness over there
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in Boston and, and that that debacle happened and, and I'll
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never forget it. Kyrie went out there on, you
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know, speaking to the media and says, now I understand what it
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is to be a leader. When LeBron was dealing with me,
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when he was dealing with Kevin, the different personalities in
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the locker room and what it was going to take to have these
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personalities work together. He says, I can't do that.
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I wish I'd never left. I wish I'd never left Cleveland.
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When you hear that from a guy who's so good and and so special
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at the game of basketball, it kind of gets you worried that
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when he comes back after the trade deadline, because that's
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when they're assuming he's going to be back in February.
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What is it going to do to Cooper Flag?
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Is it going to help Cooper Flag or is it going to push Cooper
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Flag off the the bridge or push him out where Cooper Flag is
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going to say it's either me or him.
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Get rid of him and, and and coach K.
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He'll never put anybody down that he coached.
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Never. I don't I've never seen coach K
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ever put down a player in his in his career, anybody's coach.
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That's why he picked John Shire to be his, his, his, his
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apprentice and eventually the coach and I now they give him a
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six year deal, which I think is absolutely ridiculous.
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I honestly, coach K is one of the best basketball minds I've
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ever seen. The one problem I could say
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about Coach K is he's the honesty is always broken when he
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talks about his own players and, and I'll go back to Nico
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Harrison. Nico Harrison was not honest to
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the fans, he was not honest to the ownership and he was not
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honest to Mark Cuban. When Mark Cuban came to him
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before the trade deadline and asked them, do you have any
26:21
ideas who we can bring in to make this team better?
26:25
And Nico said, well, I'm looking at some things.
26:28
I'll let you know when, when it happens.
26:30
And then within 24 hours, he traded the best player for a bag
26:35
of bones, for a bag of balls for no reason.
26:39
And nobody understands it. To this day, I don't even think
26:42
Luca understands why he was traded to the Lakers.
26:45
I don't think he's crying about it.
26:47
I mean, Luca is, is a star. He's in commercials now, he's in
26:51
LA, he's with all these beautiful women.
26:54
I, I know he's got a girl, but I'm just saying he, he's got, he
26:57
runs LA. He is the star of the Los
27:00
Angeles Lakers. What would you rather be a Laker
27:04
or a Maverick? I'd rather be a Laker.
27:06
I mean, what about you, Speedy? What would you rather?
27:09
Yeah, I think if you're any type of NBA star, you would
27:11
definitely look at the Lakers and you would look at the
27:13
obviously the glamour of Hollywood and the LA and stuff
27:15
like that. It's like I it's like celebrity
27:17
world W which about all the celebrity Knicks fans are in the
27:20
audience. The Lakers have probably double
27:21
the amount of that. And then all of a sudden you're
27:23
branding with a team that won 17 championships, the most, tied
27:26
for the most with the Celtics ever.
27:28
And that's all of a sudden a high point of emphasis for most
27:32
stars. Kawhi Leonard didn't want he
27:34
want to play with LeBron, but pretty much everyone else, like
27:36
you said, that wanted to go to the Lakers.
27:37
He got they got there except for except for Chris Paul.
27:41
And go back to the Chris Paul situation.
27:44
Chris Paul was a great player. Could you imagine how great
27:47
Chris Paul would be? Chris Paul's never won a
27:50
championship. Never.
27:51
He played with James Harden, he played with Lob City.
27:55
He had Doc River as his coach. He had he had played for so many
28:00
good teams. He was a great player.
28:01
I honestly think Chris Paul's a top three-point guard of all
28:05
time. People forget how great Chris
28:07
Paul was. OK, Chris Paul's never won a
28:10
championship. Now, if he went to the Lakers to
28:12
play with that team, with Kobe Bryant and, and, and with Metta
28:19
World Peace and Lamar Odom and all those guys, Andrew Bynum,
28:25
let me ask you guys, how many championships do you think Chris
28:28
Paul would have won? At least three, at least three,
28:32
at least maybe 4-5. And what did David Stern do?
28:35
He stepped in. Have we ever seen Adam Silver
28:38
step in? Hell no.
28:40
Have we ever seen Adam Silver stop any trade from happening?
28:44
When you look at the trading, you're like, you put two and two
28:47
together, like how does this? Make sense?
28:49
He goes the other way. He looks the other way.
28:51
Well, especially with the LJA, he'll, if LeBron wants another
28:55
player, oh, oh, Luca Dodger doesn't matter for the salary
28:57
cap and they'll find a way. And you know, what bothers me
28:59
more than anything is LeBron. Everybody keeps saying LeBron
29:02
didn't want Luca there. Are you kidding me?
29:04
Come on, LeBron didn't want Luka Doncic playing with him over
29:08
there in LA. He's got look, LeBron wants to
29:11
catch Kobe. He wants to win five titles and
29:13
maybe get to Jordan 6 because then he can consider himself,
29:17
quote UN quote, the greatest basketball player of all time.
29:20
Is he going to win a championship of Reeves in that
29:23
bunch of garbage? Anthony Davis couldn't stay on
29:25
the court. Not a chance in hell.
29:28
He needed another young superstar that's going to help
29:30
him take pressure off him and as he obviously gets older, can
29:35
take that lead and take that captaincy to lead A-Team.
29:40
That's something that LeBron James has never really gave
29:43
anybody to because Lebron's always been the best player on
29:46
his team. He's no longer that anymore.
29:49
So to sit here and and say it's all about Nico Harrison and are
29:55
we surprised Nico Harrison was fired?
29:57
No, we're not surprised Nico Harrison was fired.
30:00
I thought he was should have been fired last year.
30:02
Of course I thought he should have been fired after that Luka
30:04
dodgy trade. What is funny about this is we
30:08
are what, 11 games into the season and now you're firing
30:12
him? How does that make sense if I
30:15
was? If you're going to do it that
30:16
quick, why? Like what?
30:18
What were they waiting for? They waiting for an excuse like
30:21
it doesn't make sense at all. I think because, and I'm I'm
30:25
going to go at this and I understand what Fish is saying.
30:28
Well, Cooper Flex played a little bit better.
30:31
Cooper Flake is still a young player and even though it's
30:35
going to take a little while for him to develop, there's not
30:38
enough players giving him the ball.
30:39
He does. He's he's playing the point
30:41
forward. He's bringing the ball up and
30:43
down the court, which he did in the NCAA and we saw what he did
30:47
in the tournament. He is not a point forward.
30:50
He is not Luka Doncic. He doesn't have that kind of
30:53
ability. He's not really that he doesn't
30:56
ball handle. That's one of the weakest parts
30:58
of Cooper flags game. He's not a bad ball handler when
31:02
you look at the Harrison and what he did last year and where
31:07
this team completely fell after the Luka Tanti trade.
31:12
The Mavericks should have just got rid of him before the season
31:14
started. Start over and then decide if
31:17
you're going to keep Jason Kidd because I know the Knicks wanted
31:20
to interview Jason Kidd and The Mavericks would not allow them
31:22
to. The Knicks wanted to interview
31:27
Jason Kidd and The Mavericks said no.
31:30
And then I remember Jason Kidd wanted that extension and it
31:34
took practically all offseason for him to get that extension.
31:39
And he only got that extension because they got the number one
31:42
pick and he wanted to stay there to Coach Cooper Flag.
31:45
If they never got that number one pick, I think, I think kid
31:49
would have forced his way out. I really do believe that.
31:53
I just think there's a lot with this, this failure of AGM and,
32:00
and, and in this organization that's trying to figure out who
32:04
they are, what their identity or what their identity is going to
32:07
be when Kyrie Irving comes back. I mean, and now you're hearing,
32:11
I'm, I'm reading things that's now with the new GM and Mark
32:16
Cuban might be buying back the team.
32:19
Now there is a story coming out that Mark Cuban might buy his
32:25
shares back from DuMont and that ownership because they're not
32:29
getting a casino. There is nothing that has been
32:32
approved and they thought by trading Luka Doncic and doing
32:36
the stuff that they did that was going to bring something to to
32:41
Dallas, which it hasn't done. So maybe The Mavericks and the
32:46
organization gets lucky and and maybe Mark Cuban is probably
32:49
shaking his head and probably wondering why he did sell his
32:52
shares to DuMont and that ownership because it's ruined
32:56
this organization. It's it's shake up, it's shaked
32:58
up this organization. Dirk Nowitzki said something
33:02
recently about the organization. He says that I believe in the
33:07
organization that I play for. I don't believe in this
33:10
organization. Think about that.
33:13
Your best player that's ever played for your organization,
33:17
use your best, comes out and says something like that.
33:21
That's got to worry you. And maybe that's what pushed
33:25
Nico Harrison out is it's not just him.
33:28
Steve Nash, I think was drafted by The Mavericks.
33:33
Steve Nash has been on a show tons of times with LeBron,
33:36
LeBron James and said, what the hell was this organization
33:41
thinking trading away Luka Dodge.
33:44
Can you see LeBron smiling? Well, what did he say?
33:47
Something treasure. Another man's trash is another
33:50
treasure. That's right.
33:51
Another, another, another, another man's trash is another
33:55
team's treasure. Something that he said on his
33:57
show. And, and I'm we're talking about
33:59
Luka Dodgek, a top five player in the league, and, and LeBron
34:04
smiling and smirking because Steve Nash is making jokes
34:08
saying what the what the F And they curse on the show.
34:12
So what the F is this organization doing?
34:16
And what did this organization do to let this man trade
34:19
arguably one of the top three players in the league to the
34:23
Lakers? Makes no sense.
34:24
And everyone knew it at the time.
34:26
Like, OK, Nico Harrison, you want to make excuses?
34:29
Oh, Luka Doncic has troubles with conditioning.
34:32
Yes, Luka Doncic had some injury issues.
34:34
Yes, he had some cramping issues that were uncharacteristic of
34:37
him or the early stages of his career.
34:39
That could be a lot of NBA players.
34:42
You don't think NBA players load manage for cramping purposes or
34:46
just stamina purposes, especially older ones throughout
34:49
the year? That was your reasoning for
34:51
hiding trading Nico Harris in addition to drinking beers in
34:54
the offseason for whatever reason?
34:56
Yeah, that's your basis on this. Let's say you bring instead
34:59
Anthony Davis, who the first game that he plays in a Dallas
35:02
Mavericks uniform goes down with injury, does not play again for
35:05
the rest of the year. Now 5 of 11 games this year he's
35:09
played and you're going to justify that as a part of a
35:12
trade? I don't even care that you got
35:14
the number one pick and got Cooper flag because as Errol has
35:16
mentioned many times, that is a result of the LJA.
35:19
Not a good GM actually drafting a number one pick, a
35:22
generational talent supposedly that fell into your lap.
35:25
You do not deserve credit for that.
35:27
And by the way, like you're saying, he's been a bit
35:29
underperforming so far this year for a number one pick.
35:32
I know he came out on his show. I I skimmed through podcasts and
35:36
I listen to certain shows because I want to hear their
35:38
take. Nico Harrison obviously getting
35:41
fired. It's been a big conversation on
35:43
podcast. Some I liked most of them I
35:46
didn't, but Steve Nash and and LeBron James, LeBron James, the
35:52
fact that they were talking about it and LeBron just
35:54
smirking and really not saying much of it about it is pretty
35:57
funny. Well, yeah, you're going to
35:59
cover up anything that says all right.
36:01
Oh, I I didn't have anything to do with this.
36:03
Oh, I didn't want to orchestrate it.
36:04
Maybe we heard GM LeBron for decades do whatever he wants.
36:07
Now never show the player of Luka Doncic's caliber, but he
36:11
did the decision. He did him and Dwyane Wade team
36:13
never in Miami. Chris got Chris Bosh over there.
36:15
I think Luka Doncic probably a better player than Chris Bosh
36:17
will, but Chris Bosh is probably a future Hall of Famer.
36:19
So you're looking at a case where LeBron based on that track
36:23
record, is it going to have a argument to say, oh, I didn't
36:25
have anything to do with it. I if I were the Lakers, I just
36:28
tired Nico Harrison. I mean, seriously, he does this
36:31
sort of a complimentary about it role in the team.
36:33
If I'm with the Lakers right now, I'd say you know what?
36:35
Let's bring him he. Could be a part of our executive
36:38
panel if that's a branded position for him.
36:40
He just gave us Luca Dodgic for practically a bag of balls.
36:43
Why? Why not?
36:44
Let's hook him up. I mean, with the NBA, look into
36:47
that. I mean, they're looking at
36:49
everything else or they're not looking into enough as Adam
36:52
Silver finally opened up his goddamn eyes with Chauncey
36:55
Billups and Terry Rozier and and Mr. Jones.
36:58
So, I mean, I, I just think that the NBA is just, they're blind.
37:04
Ever since David Stern has stepped down, this is an
37:08
organization that's trying to find its way back up again.
37:11
And and the league is run by the players and I make a joke.
37:15
It's the LJA. But it, it, it's, it's bad.
37:18
And, and it, and it really starts to it, it starts to pile
37:22
up. And, and when you watch the All
37:24
Star games now they're trying to find ways how to make the All
37:26
Star games even more fun to watch.
37:28
And good luck, nobody. Cares.
37:30
They're making it worse. Yeah, nobody cares anymore.
37:34
I I just think it's sad because the NBA, the All Star weekend
37:38
was always something. Everybody was looking forward to
37:41
the slam dunk contest, but nobody wants to go into the dunk
37:43
contest because nobody wants to get.
37:45
Hurt. You know LeBron James and, and,
37:48
and even a three-point contest and we all know Steph Curry and,
37:52
and now they're bringing some of the women, the great shooters in
37:54
the WNBA to play and and compete with the men.
37:58
And it's great. It really, really is great.
38:00
Is it drawing people to want to watch?
38:04
And the answer is no. But everybody's going to say
38:06
hey, wait, but sponsorships are up, advertisements are up,
38:11
people are watching. It's on ESPN.
38:14
They have a multi billion dollar deal, multi trillion dollar
38:18
deal. Is it really as bad as everybody
38:22
makes it seem to be? And the answer is yes.
38:26
When I go to a, when I go to a basketball game.
38:29
And I'm wondering if Jalen Brunson's going to play because,
38:33
hey, his pinky is hurting him and he's not going to, he's not
38:36
going to play in this particular game.
38:37
And I'm not going to see Josh Hart because his back is hurting
38:40
him. And I'm, I'm spending $300 a
38:43
ticket to watch these guys play a basketball game.
38:46
Yeah, it would piss me off if I'm buying these tickets for me
38:49
and my girl. I know, I know.
38:55
It's just, and that's tough. You see those signs with like
38:57
kids, you know that literally like we drove X amount of miles
39:01
or whatever. Yeah, it's definitely changed.
39:04
But I I would like to know, and I know it's probably different
39:08
from organizations like truly, genuinely what is obviously
39:13
there's probably not a resume of what the GM is, but I would kind
39:17
of like to know like the outline of the OR the parameters of like
39:22
what actually is the GM role as far as communication is as far
39:26
as trades talks like involvement with the team and what have you
39:30
like it. It would be interesting to see
39:33
and I doubt anybody would like ever let anybody in to see like
39:36
no, because you. Don't feel the player power of
39:38
the NBA. Yeah.
39:40
I, it's, I just, it's just so different because you see so
39:44
much, I guess difference of what that role like looks like from,
39:49
from on the outside. Think about this, Joppa.
39:51
Think about this. The New York Knicks, OK, they,
39:55
they brought in Leon Rose, right?
39:57
Leon Rose brought AGM. He brought.
40:01
He brought his old, his old, you know, Band of Brothers, OK?
40:06
And Leon Rose is the guy that you got to go to the the close
40:10
out of deal, but he's not the GM Everybody gives Leon Rose all
40:13
the credit in the world because he's the one that made the move
40:16
for Jalen Bronson. All these guys.
40:18
He didn't make any of those moves.
40:20
He's not the GM of the team. He is the president of the New
40:24
York Knicks. He hired those guys under him to
40:28
make those moves, the basketball operations.
40:30
But Leon Rose is the face of the New York Knicks in the executive
40:34
corps of guys that he brought in worldwide.
40:36
W is there and he's one of the smartest and and educated
40:40
basketball minds the NBA has ever seen.
40:43
Why? Because Leon Rose wanted him to
40:46
be his, his guy, the guy that's going to give him the whisper.
40:50
Anybody watch the Knick games and you see Leon Rose was on the
40:52
side. Who's he sitting next to?
40:53
Speedy. Worldwide West.
40:54
Worldwide West. Why?
40:57
Because he's the one that's giving Leon Rose all the
41:00
information, showing him what he sees, finding ways and finding
41:05
guys that would fit the culture of this roster and this team to
41:09
be a championship contending team.
41:11
That's the same thing with Jerry West.
41:13
Everybody asks why. Why was Jerry West so smart?
41:15
Why was he so good at building teams?
41:18
Here's the reason why Jerry West was so smart and so good.
41:21
He worked under some of the smartest people of all time.
41:26
And then when, yeah, 100%. The Lakers organization, all the
41:31
people that he's put himself around over the years and the
41:34
guys, when he grew up, when he got the GM job years and years
41:38
before by bus and doctor, Buss said, I'm giving you the GM
41:42
after he retired, you're going to be the GM of the Lakers.
41:45
And then he stepped down and then he came back again.
41:46
He stepped down. He came back again.
41:49
Jerry West was a genius because he understood the game, because
41:53
he was a great player. Not every great player
41:56
understands the game. As a matter of fact, Michael
41:58
Jordan is one of the worst executives we've ever seen.
42:02
OK, he drafted Kwame Brown. Does anybody remember him?
42:06
No, because nobody gives a shit about Kwame Brown.
42:09
If I make the next executives look good, I mean, seriously,
42:12
it's probably one of the worst picks I've ever seen.
42:16
An owner, GM, whatever you're going to call him.
42:18
When he was running that organization, it was horrible.
42:22
Kwame Brown was one of the worst high school player.
42:24
Everybody thought this guy was the next big thing.
42:26
Michael Jordan swore upon him. Well, he was wrong.
42:30
It set the team back for 10 years.
42:32
It doesn't always work. Michael Jordan is the greatest
42:34
mind, greatest basketball mind we've ever seen on a basketball
42:37
court. It doesn't always work together.
42:40
Jerry West, let's go look at Jerry West and look what Jerry
42:43
West brought in. Kobe Bryant.
42:45
He was the one that made the trade to bring it signing that
42:49
brought Shaquille O'Neal in. We could go on and on and on.
42:52
He built that whole team, that whole team.
42:55
And then after the fact, after Shaquille was moved, he was the
42:59
one that made that move for Pau Gasol.
43:01
He was the one that tried to make that move for Chris Paul
43:04
and all the other guys Metta World Peace.
43:07
He was the one who put that team together.
43:10
He was the one, he was the mastermind of those teams.
43:14
So it's so interesting and and again, the Luka Doncic story is
43:20
always going to be one that'll stick out from all the rest.
43:24
And it's going to be a stamp of approval by Nico Harrison.
43:28
And that's why everybody, everybody is talking about this
43:33
firing. I got to give everybody.
43:35
A little bit more credit than they they get on the show.
43:38
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Podcasts out there, but. I think there's stuff that we're
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And and by the way, we're not doing a show on Monday at
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and the reason why? Is is because?
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We want to promote it, right and we're going to do it in many
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We're going to get guests and, and we want everybody to come
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Besides stats BT, who do we? Have lined up for.
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Next so nothing because of Monday because I thought we were
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doing the live show then. So nothing yet for Monday, but
46:28
Wednesday Nathan were able to get us a Yankees hero in the
46:31
playoffs. Bucky Dent at 8:45 X shortstop.
46:34
You play for a bunch of different.
46:35
Teams. Didn't we see him at a card
46:37
show? Maybe you're going to ask
46:39
Nathan. I don't.
46:39
Remember, I think he did. He's the expert on that, Yeah,
46:43
but. Yeah, he lives in Florida,
46:44
right? I don't know.
46:45
You'll have to ask Nathan. Right, Nathan?
46:47
He lives in Florida. Oh, no, he did come back at the
46:50
feed. All right here, Nathan.
46:52
No, He was asking if Bucky Den lives in Florida.
46:55
Yeah. Bucky Den lives in Florida.
46:56
Yes. Yep.
46:57
Yeah, we met him at the card show.
46:59
I remember Bucky. You did.
47:01
Yeah, OK. Yep, a very nice guy, by the
47:05
way. Very, very nice guy.
47:08
But yeah, anyways, that's it. Enjoy the rest of your beautiful
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weekend. Stay out of trouble because it
47:16
seems like I get into a lot of it.
47:18
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