Decision Making Timelines

[ItsGoTime]

My working, barely educated guess is that the former situation, where Donnie (the "GM") was simply one voice among many giving input to the owner (and real GM), was an organizational dysfunction that Mark intended to fix with the hire of a new GM. I believe that an owner can have final approval and veto power and get high level input from a board of directors (Dirk, etc.) while still honoring a healthy organizational structure. A healthy organizational structure can even have a leadership team (Cuban, Nico, Fin, Kidd, etc) that has discussion together, but still honor the organizational structure. 
 
I actually think Cuban is attempting to honor an actual organizational structure and that he is actually allowing Nico to run this franchise. Again...I could be wrong!! The old free for all structure where organizational structure means almost nothing could still be in place. Or Cuban could have set out to correct the dysfunction and then failed to keep himself from reintroducing the dysfunction. 
 
So, most of our difference of opinion in this thread about what Nico is tasked to do stems from the interpretive choices each of us has made given the past, the press conferences and interviews since Nico was hired, and bits of opinion given by various writers on the topic. 

This is how I think it is too with one caveat. This past offseason I think either Cuban basically ran it with Nico being so new, OR, Cuban made a deal with Nico upon hiring him that he and Kidd would keep the team intact and work with them until...let's say...Christmas, then Nico and Kidd would have their feet wet and Cuban would then be just the final "yes" or "no" decision maker.


I agree with Kamm that by this time next year about 75% of the roster will be turned over or have significantly lesser roles (this second part is my thinking, not's Kamm's).