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

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No, I'm saying I wish an ADDITIONAL outside hire, one who's 100% basketball personnel oriented (both in past experience and future Mavs job description) was forthcoming. 

I like the idea of this dude being the professional face of the team, but not the idea of him deciding whether or not the Mavs need one more wing or to go a completely new direction with the front court. And, I don't want Finley or Voulgaris deciding that, either. 

But, at the end of the day, this might have been as drastic of a change as we could've hoped for. 

I think that by the end of the summer, people like you who have traditionally been the most dissatisfied with Mavs personnel decisions might hate this front office, too. I see no evidence that Cuban has upgraded the basketball IQ of the decision team, but I do think they'll come across as infinitely more professional, which isn't anything to dismiss. So that's good.

You don´t get to the position he is in without great knowledge of basketball and the NBA. He played college basketball for four years and for the last 20-25 years he has done nothing else, but to evaluate basketball talent and keep relationships with high end players. He basically unifies the best of both worlds. Why should he not be fit to make strategic basketball or roster decisions?  I don´t see any difference between him and an agent turned GM.