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They Finally Fired Him... · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: So Nico Harrison has officially been fired from his job
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  Speaker 1: as the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks. Insane, well
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  Speaker 1: not insane, they got fired, but just the whole, the
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  Speaker 1: whole last ten months for the Dallas maveriss Nico Harrison
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  Speaker 1: is still something I'm trying to wrap my brain around,
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  Speaker 1: even to this day. The Lakers just played a game
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  Speaker 1: against the Hornets last night. I tune into that game
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  Speaker 1: and thought to myself, at least one time thought that game,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot believe Luka Dantis plays for the Lakers. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason that he plays for the Lakers is because
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison had this vision that not a single person
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  Speaker 1: under the Kenjie Perkins believe the kiss of Perkins. The
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  Speaker 1: only person that when that trade happened, he was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh good trade for the Dallas maveris No nobody else,
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  Speaker 1: even the people that I know in the media world
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  Speaker 1: or the NBA Twitter that are contrarians on purpose, their
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  Speaker 1: whole identity is to be against what consensus is. Even
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  Speaker 1: those people were saying, no, Nico Harrison's driven this team
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  Speaker 1: went to an NBA Finals unless than a full caletary
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  Speaker 1: year since going to the finals. Traded away not just
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  Speaker 1: the best player, because I don't think that tells you
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  Speaker 1: the full story of Lugdantis A legitimately, I noticed these
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  Speaker 1: were are thrown together a lot with NBA players, A
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  Speaker 1: legitimate generational talent before his theoretical prime without a trade request,
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  Speaker 1: was traded away for Anthony Davis, who we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of love for NBA seventy five guy Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer for his ballot and one of the greatest players ever,
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  Speaker 1: but not just Anthony Davis like when he was twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: A current day Anthony Davis that spoiler alert is already injured.
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  Speaker 1: It is still mind blowing to me that that trade
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  Speaker 1: went through and Ego Harrison deserves to be fired for
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  Speaker 1: that action alone. Before that, we looked at Nico Harrison's
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  Speaker 1: one of the best gyms in basketball. Where it be
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  Speaker 1: the Daniel Gafford trade, whether they be the PJ. Washington
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  Speaker 1: trade and so on and so for now, he did
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  Speaker 1: have his miss as like the Jaylen Brunson thing. But
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  Speaker 1: even as I say that, I recognize that part of
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  Speaker 1: those trades being good trades is the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: had Luca Nacich on the team to make it so
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  Speaker 1: that Daniel Gafford is a really impactful offensive player because
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  Speaker 1: lucas one of the best lob throws in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. That Luca, because he draws a double
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  Speaker 1: every time he touched the ball, makes it so that PJ.
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  Speaker 1: Washington get hit six corner threes in the playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: So even then, Nico Harrison threw it all the way
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  Speaker 1: and threw away what ended up being his job and
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  Speaker 1: threw away a ton of Dallas Mavericks fans in the process.
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  Speaker 1: Like I know some fans that were really upset about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stillally upset about the Luca Donta trade, but jump
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  Speaker 1: back in they won the lottery because Cooper Flag potentially
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  Speaker 1: a really good guy and has been good to end
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  Speaker 1: this rookie season. Even those guys who are really excited
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  Speaker 1: and Dallas Mavericks fans like dancing in the streeter, so
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to Again, I'm not a fan
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  Speaker 1: of the seam, so maybe shouldn't be talking about this
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  Speaker 1: at all to really accept it as a huge win. Like,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you didn't want Nico Harrison making any other decisions
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  Speaker 1: for the team, but Luca's never coming back to the
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  Speaker 1: franchise at least maybe he gets a one day cons
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  Speaker 1: rag like a Paul Peters type thing, and that still
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  Speaker 1: does suck for the fan base. Now, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we'll ever can completely get rid of that era, right
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  Speaker 1: no matter how far we get into Dallas Maveris' future. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: if Cooper Flag still becomes a suit star, if they
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  Speaker 1: lose so much that they get a nice lottery pick,
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  Speaker 1: we will still look at the Dallas Mavericks as the
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  Speaker 1: team that threw away a championship contender to construct whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell they're trying to construct right now. Nico Harrison's
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  Speaker 1: vision was so ridiculously bad that the people that he
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  Speaker 1: convinced that that vision the owners to do my family
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  Speaker 1: or do that family that owns a team, gave his
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  Speaker 1: vision eleven games in the next season before they said, nah,
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  Speaker 1: this shit sucks eleven games. Defense wins championships. Hey, they
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  Speaker 1: have one of the best defenses in the league. They
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  Speaker 1: also have a win percentage of twenty seven point three.
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  Speaker 1: So defense wins championships. You know what does win championship?
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  Speaker 1: Defense objectively helps you win championships. It is a very
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  Speaker 1: important part to win the championship. But star players do
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  Speaker 1: and not just star players a tier star player because
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  Speaker 1: they think Daves is still a star player, He's just
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  Speaker 1: not in the same tier as Vluka Docs. And again
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything new to you. You've known this,
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about it for ten months. But for the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it happened this early on shows you that
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  Speaker 1: the people that were in charge of letting Nico Harrison
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  Speaker 1: make the decision still didn't see the vision. Well maybe
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  Speaker 1: they did it didn't love the backlass that came from it.
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  Speaker 1: Because even yesterday when they played against the Milwaukee Butts
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  Speaker 1: in the game that they were very close in winning,
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  Speaker 1: the fan base are still chanting fire Nico Harrison in
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  Speaker 1: a game that they are two possessions away from winning,
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  Speaker 1: taking all of the energy away from what ended up
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  Speaker 1: being with Koupa Flag's best game for the CNBIA career
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  Speaker 1: so far, taking all the energy away from those guys
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  Speaker 1: who are competing on a nightly basis and putting it
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  Speaker 1: right into Nico Harrison. There is a report two days
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  Speaker 1: ago that the Nico Harrison like discomfort or hate from
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  Speaker 1: the fan base got so bad that in his normal
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  Speaker 1: seat they had a detachable, detachable staircase, so he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to go through the crowd in order to get
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  Speaker 1: back to after watching the games. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: That was the loops that we were jumping through as
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  Speaker 1: an organization to keep this man as a job. And
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  Speaker 1: now they got Michael Finley and another guy that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come in to potentially right the ship. But the reality
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  Speaker 1: is there's no righting the ship. Luca Donsen's plays for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, and the Lakers look good right now and
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  Speaker 1: are poised to be really solid for the next decade.
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  Speaker 1: And that was you. That literally was you and I
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  Speaker 1: it's not again. It's a little light and tunnel. You
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  Speaker 1: got Google flag and maybe another Liary pick whatever. But
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  Speaker 1: the conversation that we talked about on the podcast when
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  Speaker 1: it broke be cause we were live when it ended
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  Speaker 1: up happening, it was okay, Nico Harrison's out. Now. The
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  Speaker 1: fan base still will never be completely satisfied again because
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  Speaker 1: Luka Dantin's in arrival, if you will, a conference rival.
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  Speaker 1: But they can watch their his Nego Harrisons stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: now they can focus on this current roster. Now they
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  Speaker 1: can start thinking about okay, when we hit this reset button,
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  Speaker 1: which feels like an inevitability at this point, because there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing about this current team that makes you feel like
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  Speaker 1: they can win a championship. When we hit that reset button,
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  Speaker 1: a when will it be? Do you give the interim
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  Speaker 1: GM the ability to make a big time trade, trading
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  Speaker 1: away Anthony Davis, trading away Kyrie Irving? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: wait until the off season where you have all the
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  Speaker 1: people that you may want to represent you as a
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  Speaker 1: general man and have them make that decision. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know. And if you are gonna do that, if
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  Speaker 1: you are gonna give the general manager, the interim general
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  Speaker 1: manager that leeway, what type of compensation do you get
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  Speaker 1: in return if you are going to tear some things down?
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  Speaker 1: Because if we look at the Dallas Maveris ross so,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can all agree there are competent and
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  Speaker 1: like players that contribute to winning basketball games for another team.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis might be thirty two years old and looks
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  Speaker 1: out of shape and now wearing goggles, But if he
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  Speaker 1: became available today, there are gonna be teams that are
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  Speaker 1: gonna call. Now. You may not get the Kevin Durant return,
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  Speaker 1: you may not even get him Michel Bridges return, but
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  Speaker 1: like people will be interested in Anthony Davis, even Danzel
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  Speaker 1: Russell on the five million dollar deal. If somebody told
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  Speaker 1: you Danzel Russell we can trade for for five million
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  Speaker 1: dollars and two second round picks to be our third
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  Speaker 1: string point guard, just in case people be interested in that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the same way, of course, about Kyrie Irving.
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  Speaker 1: If he became available today, even coming off of his injury,
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  Speaker 1: teams will be interested. Naji Marshall has blossomed, Daniel Gafford
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  Speaker 1: looks really good. PJ. Washington showed you in the playoff
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  Speaker 1: series a few years back that he could do it,
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  Speaker 1: and even Klay Thompson, who can't hit a goddamn shot,
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  Speaker 1: hes still Clay Thompson and he's making fifteen. So the
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  Speaker 1: idea is, or the question is when will they make
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  Speaker 1: it happen? And then if they do, will they ever
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  Speaker 1: get trade packages in return that make people happy. It's
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  Speaker 1: impossible to put the past in the past when it
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  Speaker 1: is this big of a breakup. If you will, like
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  Speaker 1: you're always gonna think about Luka Dantics, but I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if you trade Anthony Davis for an intriguing young piece
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  Speaker 1: and maybe a future draft capital that you feel good
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  Speaker 1: about if you trade dare you gaffer to the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: and get back something whatever, could you just be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now this is who we are as a fan base. YadA, YadA.
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  Speaker 1: They lost a lot of viewership, They lost a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fans in the process of the Nico Harrison thing.
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  Speaker 1: Back in February. I wonder if just the firing of
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  Speaker 1: the Nico Harrison is enough for what we're like, really
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  Speaker 1: good season ticket holders to come back and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: all right, cool he's gone. Now I really trust y'all
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  Speaker 1: again because to do Mott family. I've said this before,
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  Speaker 1: they're not NBA people, right. A lot of the owners
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  Speaker 1: across basketball NBA people, whether it be via sociation or yadayah, YadA,
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  Speaker 1: they're not NBA people. From my understanding. They came in
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  Speaker 1: from the casino world, the betting world, had all the
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  Speaker 1: lumps some pay Mark Cuban to buy this team. But
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  Speaker 1: they weren't people that will tell you that in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine and this team won a championship, right, they
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  Speaker 1: were just like business first people. And with that they
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  Speaker 1: had Nico Harrison, who at that point, like we mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 1: was really decent at his job. And they had full
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  Speaker 1: trust in him making these big time decisions. Obviously ended
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  Speaker 1: up being wrong. And you know, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not calling Nico Harrison escape go with at
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  Speaker 1: all because he made the bad trading all, but ownership
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  Speaker 1: deserves some level of responsibility for it. If there's anything
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  Speaker 1: that makes it maybe a little bit easier is that
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  Speaker 1: they did put together a press release that basically took
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  Speaker 1: accountability for it all. So maybe they are about to
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  Speaker 1: be more basketball focused when it comes to these type
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  Speaker 1: of things, because you can't run an NBA team like
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  Speaker 1: a business. Necessarily, you have to think about a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different things. You have to think about the basketball
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  Speaker 1: on the court, You got to think about the fan base,
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  Speaker 1: You got to think about all of these things. And
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  Speaker 1: I felt as though they didn't really what were they thinking.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't really think about it. They didn't really think
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  Speaker 1: about anything. I made this tweet yesterday when it was
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  Speaker 1: rumored that Nico Way be out of a job. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell you tomorrow, they said at some point throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. One of the things I find really interesting
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  Speaker 1: about firing coaches or gms' is the straw that breaks
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  Speaker 1: the back, right, the Giants just fired their coach after
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  Speaker 1: they lost the game to the Bears. Right, obviously that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the main reason, but it's like leading up to
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  Speaker 1: that point, and I wonder what it was for to
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  Speaker 1: do my family to say, like, after game eleven, this
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  Speaker 1: is the time where Nico's going to be gone, because
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  Speaker 1: it again, it wasn't even a full year before they
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  Speaker 1: since they made the trade in order to see if
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  Speaker 1: his vision was the vision. So I really I'm really
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  Speaker 1: curious to see what it was. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 1: post that's going around about somebody from my family sitting
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  Speaker 1: down with the kids, sitting courtside and they talked about
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  Speaker 1: and he took accountability. Was that kid the savior of
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  Speaker 1: Dallas getting Nico Harrison out of there? I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know, but it's somebody I ain't made no
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  Speaker 1: decision like this, but it's somebody that is trying to
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  Speaker 1: build a business and what enjoy basketball. I understand. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't have I obviously don't have the assets
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  Speaker 1: state that they do, but I understand trusting in someone
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  Speaker 1: to make a big decision in the area where you
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  Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable in. So I wonder if they feel
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  Speaker 1: like Nico not only scam the fan base, but scan
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  Speaker 1: them because we trusted you to keep the team at float.
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  Speaker 1: We trusted you to do what was right by the team. Again,
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  Speaker 1: same thing I was saying. In business, when things go
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  Speaker 1: wrong for me as the owner, I take fault even
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't my fault. And I feel the same.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to do my family. They should take fault
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  Speaker 1: in it. Again they did, but that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. What was the straw that broke the camel's back?
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm just having thoughts as we sit here.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if the fan base, and if you're Mavers fans,
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  Speaker 1: you let me know, because I can only speak from
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  Speaker 1: an outside of looking in. I wonder if the the
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  Speaker 1: focus of the discomfort from the fan base, if that shifts,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Obviously fire Nico Harrison, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe sell the team. Is sell the team coming next?
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  Speaker 1: I guess is a question? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Could we here sell the team to now that if
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  Speaker 1: you either do my family, that's the last thing you want.
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  Speaker 1: And you kind of hope that it all blows over.
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  Speaker 1: But it's impossible to blow over because again it's the
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  Speaker 1: biggest trade in the history of the sport and maybe
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  Speaker 1: the history of sports in general. Man, I've said it.
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  Speaker 1: I said again. I'm not huge into the NFL, A
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  Speaker 1: goddamn Bears fan, but I can't tell you the worst
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  Speaker 1: trade that the forty nine ers have ever made. I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you the worst trade that the Miami I
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  Speaker 1: almost say Marlin's Dolphins, or the NHL world, or in
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  Speaker 1: the MLB world. I can't tell you the crazy trade.
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  Speaker 1: But from people that I know that are diehard NFL
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: fans or diehard MLB fans, even they are saying that
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  Speaker 1: this Lucadots trade is the craziest trade they have ever seen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if Nico Harrison still believes in the vision,
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  Speaker 1: Like does he say, well, of Anthony Davis and Carrie
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  Speaker 1: Irving were healthy right now, we'd beat the two, you know, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if he still sees that or is he
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  Speaker 1: still in that little bubble, or does he recognize that
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  Speaker 1: when ninety nine percent of people are telling you you
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  Speaker 1: are in the wrong, then more likely than not that
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  Speaker 1: you are in the wrong. Sold to be said, I
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  Speaker 1: would have made this to you, but I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Published stop sending me photoshops of Anthony Davis and the
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  Speaker 1: Bulls Jersey. I recognized that ten years ago he said
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  Speaker 1: one day he wanted to play for the Bulls. I
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  Speaker 1: recognize that the Bulls are on a loser streak right now,
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  Speaker 1: so who the hell knows, but at one point a
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  Speaker 1: solid NBA team. Stop doing it. Stop doing it? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why it's so annoying to me is it
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  Speaker 1: is the exact trade. I think that our Tuney's Carney
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  Speaker 1: service would pull off. And that's what scares me. I
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  Speaker 1: that's what scares me. Yeah, don't let it happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if it does happen, we crossed that bridge eventually, but
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  Speaker 1: stop throwing it, my stop throwing me that trade. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I don't know. I don't like I don't
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: like injury problems. As somebody that dealt with injury riddled Superstar,
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  Speaker 1: injury riddle superstar thought the entirety of my high school.
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  Speaker 1: Plus it's a tough feeling. And I know some of
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: y'all deal with this. Whether you're a Hornets fan, or
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  Speaker 1: you're a Pelicans fan, or you're a former Laker fan
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  Speaker 1: or you're a current Dalla, you've dealt with these injured
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  Speaker 1: superstars before, and there's nothing like getting your hopes up
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  Speaker 1: for a player or for a team and for somebody
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  Speaker 1: to get injured and just like the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: seasons kind of can I don't want that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want that. You let me know what you think about
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  Speaker 1: Nego Harrison being fired. I feel like there's more to say.
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  Speaker 1: I could save it.