Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[khaled1987]

Cuban didn't care about hiring a GM, because he believed HE'D always be the GM, basically. 

If there's one silver lining in all of this, it's that the franchise is officially moving away from that guy. Dumont is very likely everyone's least favorite guy in the world right now, next to Harrison, maybe, but I don't get the feeling Harrison has a lifetime contract like Donnie Nelson kind of did, do you? If/when there's a GM change, THAT's something I can envision someone like Dumont taking very seriously and possibly getting right. 

I know I'm really reaching for the positive here, but...

Cuban hired Rosas, but he didn't work in the team, same with Voulgaris guy. 

Cuban always wanted to improve the franchise, and Donnie was actually a competent GM who has done two successful rebuilds. 

Generally I hate this kind of thought, this more of thinking that Cuban and Donnie were bad, and the new guys are the polar opposite which is good.

For starter, Cuban was actually a good owner, who is hated because the Mavs deserved an elite one (because they had generational talent, and are top 5 markets in the league) and he wasn't up to those two categories. But there is no point in time I looked around the league and thought there are 15 better team owners, nor even 20 better ones. He was unconventional and was too eager to be creative at times, but overall he had a solid team around him that kept things good for the most part. 

The same thing for Donnie, who didn't fail us any time we had top 10 picks btw. And did many solid trades. Again, I understand the frustrations the fans had, I was one who was annoyed too, mainly because he wasn't up to the standards of the potential we had.  But Donnie was closer to average GM who can pull some miracle every few years (Dirk, Devin, TC, 2018 draft) 

I also don't share your opinion about Duomont might firing Nico. If this trade is success, I see Nico turning into our new Donnie, he will be the guy walking the Adelson about Basketball and they will think of him as some Pat Riley, and he might deserve it tbh.

If he is fired, it will be because this trade destroyed his career, as the entire sport world expects. It won't be because the Adelson are some sort of no nonsense owners, it will be because they need a scapegoat. 


More importantly for me, is that they are fools who are trying to do a smart strategy. Like anything in sports or life, it isn't about the plan, it isn't about the plan, it is about the execution. 

They are trying to talk culture, showing us who is the boss, trying to be the new heat. But Heat has HOF and one of the greatest Basketball minds pulling the triger. Nico OTOH has just traded the guy who took us to the finals last year. The guy who actually made him look like a real GM. Same can be said in Kidd btw, new owners hasn't even achieved anything in Basketball. 

In other words, we might be seeing confident idiots in the leadership, which is a disaster 

Did Cuban just not want to be the guy who A) traded Luka to avoid giving him the super max or B) couldn't build a decent team around a super max'd Luka due to those 2nd apron problems (or even just a lack of funds in general)?

Serious question.

I think he simply wanted to retire.