NEWS: Donnie out | Nico Harrison (Nike) as Pres/GM | Fin as VP | Dirk as Advisor

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Timing is obviously pretty awful but this is the right move. Donnie has done a terrible job the last ten years. Keeping him would have meant ruining the Luka era. How many more shots does he need to prove that he can’t get anybody of significance in FA. Even his big trades more often than not backfired (Rondo, KP, Noel) and we don’t even have to talk about the draft. 

And if we blame all of this on Cuban then it still would be on Donnie for being too weak to actually change something. If he’s just a pushover then he’s not the right guy.

Really, the best thing that potentially comes out of this, even moreso than the actual hire, is just a complete restructure of the Mavs Front Office decision process.     Things were obviously broken and disconnected in various ways between the major parties.    The Rondo trade, even though Carlisle obviously wanted nothing to do with him for example.   The disconnect on having no real established plan on how they were going to  get game minutes and develop drafted players.   On and on and on.   A three headed monster where none of the three heads were on the same page.  The entire process just needs to be gutted and rebuilt like an old dilapidated house, and removing the Donnie familiarity crutch allows them to finally do that.