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Nico Harrison says he didn’t talk to any other team besides the Lakers about dealing Dončić.
— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) February 2, 2025
Nico Harrison says he didn’t talk to any other team besides the Lakers about dealing Dončić.
— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) February 2, 2025
After the Lakers and Mavericks agreed to the deal late Saturday night, Rob Pelinka made three calls in quick succession, sources told ESPN: a joint call with Anthony Davis and JJ Redick; a call to Davis' agent, Rich Paul; and a call to LeBron James.
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) February 2, 2025
That's literally GM malpractice, especially with a player of Luka's overall caliber.Nico Harrison says he didn’t talk to any other team besides the Lakers about dealing Dončić.
— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) February 2, 2025
That's literally GM malpractice, especially with a player of Luka's overall caliber.
As the story explains in detail: The Mavericks specifically wanted Anthony Davis -- someone Nico Harrison knows extremely well like prior Dallas acquisitions Kyrie Irving and P.J. Washington -- and only pursued Davis in a Luka trade.
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 2, 2025
Full coverage: https://t.co/KX8IBlV9lI https://t.co/WHLrrPopWM
Jason Kidd looks genuinely baffled 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/VWVYeSQpQ4
— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) February 2, 2025
Nico Harrison answered 3 questions and just dipped out leaving Jason Kidd alone with the media to defend himself LLMMMAAOOOWBDJESNSNEBD pic.twitter.com/avR9VruM9L
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) February 2, 2025
Hey I hear you, however, explain the Pau Gasol trade from Memphis to LA using the perspective of this argument.so the Mavericks, a real business with real investors, took the call from the nba to throw away their franchise player because Shaquille O’Neal said the ratings are down?
Memphis (accidentally) got the better Gasol brother out of the deal so I think it somehow worked out for them.Hey I hear you, however, explain the Pau Gasol trade from Memphis to LA using the perspective of this argument.
Nico just said Luka gave no indication he wanted out or wouldn't sign an extension moving forward. He also said the Lakers were they only team he talked to.
— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) February 2, 2025
He's saying this directly into a microphone.
Nico Harrison says he didn’t talk to any other team besides the Lakers about dealing Dončić.
— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) February 2, 2025
There was no way for Memphis to have made that bet. How would Memphis know that Marc Gasol would be available with the pick they got from the trade? It doesn't fit together.Memphis (accidentally) got the better Gasol brother out of the deal so I think it somehow worked out for them.
Nico just said Luka gave no indication he wanted out or wouldn't sign an extension moving forward. He also said the Lakers were they only team he talked to.
— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) February 2, 2025
He's saying this directly into a microphone.
It's obvious the goal is to A) make the Lakers relevant in the future post-Lebron era (especially considering the dropping NBA ratings numbers), and B) potentially staging the Mavericks to a move to Vegas. I'm really so sick of this idea that the league cannot be popular unless the Lakers are good. Literally feature your best talent and make the game accessible and you'll have a popular product.This is absolutely collusion. Its ridiculous. Lol
This feels like permission to stop following the NBA entirely
Hey I hear you, however, explain the Pau Gasol trade from Memphis to LA using the perspective of this argument.
This is a problem. Why are the Lakers being given exclusive access to underpay for the best players in the league? The NBA needs to change the way things are done with trades. If it's a legitimate business with real investors, why does Dallas exclude every team other than the Lakers with trade opportunity like this? How could Dallas have ensured it's investors that they got the best return for Doncic when they admittedly only went to one team with their trade proposal and got so little in return? A 30+ year old injury prone all-star and a 1st for Luka Doncic? Mikail Bridges just brought back 5 1st rounders!Nico Harrison says he didn’t talk to any other team besides the Lakers about dealing Dončić.
— Christian Clark (@cclark_13) February 2, 2025
Memphis didn't draft Marc Gasol: the lakers did. He had already been drafted, they traded for his rights.There was no way for Memphis to have made that bet. How would Memphis know that Marc Gasol would be available with the pick they got from the trade? It doesn't fit together.
It's pretty easy for this stuff to stop happening: owners need to stop hiring former agents and corporate executives. Why is an agent running the Lakers and a Nike guy running the Mavericks? Because owners want them to be. That's the big issue there. I think there's definitely betting game manipulation and larger things at play and these incidents keep reinforcing that conspiracy.This is a problem. Why are the Lakers being given exclusive access to underpay for the best players in the league? The NBA needs to change the way things are done with trades. If it's a legitimate business with real investors, why does Dallas exclude every team other than the Lakers with trade opportunity like this? How could Dallas have ensured it's investors that they got the best return for Doncic when they admittedly only went to one team with their trade proposal and got so little in return? A 30+ year old injury prone all-star and a 1st for Luka Doncic? Mikail Bridges just brought back 5 1st rounders!
I stand corrected then.Memphis didn't draft Marc Gasol: the lakers did. He had already been drafted, they traded for his rights.
They didn’t draft him, the Lakers already had in a prior draft. They just got his rights.There was no way for Memphis to have made that bet. How would Memphis know that Marc Gasol would be available with the pick they got from the trade? It doesn't fit together.
Bob Myers left his agent job and won four rings for the Warriors. Leon Rose left CAA and finally got the Knicks to be good. Wasserman’s som has thus far done absolutely nothing good for the Suns but Isiah Thomas is running that team anyways.It's pretty easy for this stuff to stop happening: owners need to stop hiring former agents and corporate executives. Why is an agent running the Lakers and a Nike guy running the Mavericks? Because owners want them to be. That's the big issue there. I think there's definitely betting game manipulation and larger things at play and these incidents keep reinforcing that conspiracy.
My point is not that they cannot be good GMs, my point is that their nature, connections, and motives are not always to help the team they work for. I do believe this move only happened because the two GMs were buddies and the league wants the Lakers to be relevant.Bob Myers left his agent job and won four rings for the Warriors. Leon Rose left CAA and finally got the Knicks to be good. Wasserman’s som has thus far done absolutely nothing good for the Suns but Isiah Thomas is running that team anyways.
Listening to the presser I honestly don’t think the league is involved in this decision. I think Nico might actually be that dumb.My point is not that they cannot be good GMs, my point is that their nature, connections, and motives are not always to help the team they work for. I do believe this move only happened because the two GMs were buddies and the league wants the Lakers to be relevant.
This trade will make it even more difficult for us to get fair value for Fox. Everyone, and I mean literally everyone, in the NBA is looking at this trade and if that’s what Luka freakin Doncic is getting for return value, then we are up **** creek with Fox. Doesn’t matter if we know it to be unfair and stupid, it’s a done deal.
What else are they going to say?Listening to the presser I honestly don’t think the league is involved in this decision. I think Nico might actually be that dumb.