11-14-2025, 06:32 PM
(11-14-2025, 05:58 PM)fifteenth Wrote: I know Cuban was hands on at that time, but I believe Nico's title was General Manager and President of Basketball Operations. I'm not going to argue against the point that Cuban was hands on of course.
But Nico had all the power, except that he needed a "yes" from the ownership, when he made the Luka trade.
That's where things ended up, but I don't think that's where they started. I think Harrison's annoyance with having to deal with Cuban is probably what led to him getting pushed out completely, once that was possible.
I honestly don't think Cuban ever intended Harrison to be GM in the sense we mean when we use that title. He even said once, pretty early on "Nico has a ways to go when it comes to player evaluation." No joke, Cuban actually said that (or something really close to that) on a podcast before he sold the team. Cut to Harrison's internal memo placing Jokic and Jrue Holiday on a similar tier...I swear, the writers of Succession couldn't contrive a more perfect set of circumstances to bring about the end of the Luka era. It's like a Shakespearean tragedy.