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

[Mavs2021]

No matter how much I dislike some of his shenanigans, this is my counter in support of Cuban. 

Cuban is loyal to a fault. Maybe he tried the Bob thing because he saw the same flaws we all did but didn’t want to outright fire Donnie. But too many chefs in the kitchen was never going to work and led to this inevitable ending. 

We say Cuban involves too much. However every owner will be involved in the big money signings or things to keep a true franchise level player happy. Cuban is not an exception there. The smaller signings and draft movement..no one can con convine me that Cuban was involved in that. Maybe he had an overall directive as far as a long term plan. However just taking the Giannis draft story. Maybe Cuban is upset that Donnie was not more creative in convincing him to draft Giannis or even make some moves to free up a few dollars so that trading down was not needed. Every other GM seems capable of that. 

The real issue here is that Cuban was probably too loyal. Maybe this is the moment Cuban gets a GM who is not just a buddy and is someone who is held accountable.

Eh, there is no way a credible GM drafts Satnam Singh, Bernard "Sarge" James or Kostas, especially Satnam Singh. Only Cuban could have made those marketing decisions. Those were not basketball decisions.

JJ Redick is actually a similar case. I´d really like to know, who the driving force behind acquiring the podcaster was.