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Marc Stein on what he heard about ‘pushback’ within Dallas Mavericks before Luka Doncic trade

April 11, 2025 4 Min Read
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The Dallas Mavericks had a pointy shock by the hands of former participant Luka Doncic.

For weeks the Dallas Mavericks knew this was coming. Luka Doncic’s return to the American Airways Heart was all the time going to be an emotional night time.

However from a Mavs perspective, this went worse than conceivable.

Luka Doncic made the Mavs seems to be heartless when he broke down in tears watching their tribute video. How might they break his coronary heart and commerce him away?

Mavs followers spent many of the night time cheering Doncic, whereas additionally chanting to fireside Nico Harrison, leaving Mark Cuban along with his head in his palms.

Doncic then dropped 45 factors on the Mavericks, in a win for the Lakers, whereas Anthony David was nameless with simply 13 factors.

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Dallas Mavericks common supervisor Nico Harrison is the person accountable for the workforce’s resolution to commerce away Luka Doncic.

Former Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban was infamously too late to cease the commerce, not too long ago detailing his transient dialog with Nico Harrison when he was notified.

NBA insider Marc Stein has claimed there have been some dissenting voices inside Harrison’s interior circle – however not loud or sturdy sufficient to cease the commerce.

Talking on The Zach Lowe Present, Stein claimed: “I’ve heard there was some stage of pushback inside the Nico Harrison cupboard, however none of it sturdy sufficient to cease this.

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“That is the craziest commerce in NBA historical past,” he added.

Stein defined that with Harrison’s strikes final season being so profitable, the Mavericks GM had been granted efficient management of the choices.

He mentioned: “Nico Harrison amassed an incredible quantity of energy and management. Mark Cuban mentioned he was going to have basketball management, I’m certain you had been sceptical whenever you heard that, there was tons of scepticism across the league.

“However I by no means imagined he could be pushed to the aspect the place Patrick Dumont doesn’t even run this previous him.”

Nico Harrison might have initiated the commerce, however Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont signed it off and accepted it.

Stein can’t consider that Dumont didn’t supply another opinion to seek the advice of on the transfer, as an alternative blindly going with Harrison’s advice.

He mentioned: “Patrick Dumont bears an enormous duty on this, that is the commerce Nico needed, and Patrick accepted it, with no NBA community to run this previous anybody.

“They didn’t ask Cuban beforehand and he didn’t even ask Dirk Nowitzki. Choose up the telephone. Get a second opinion from someplace.”

One doable motive Dumont didn’t search one other opinion might have been that he was extra closely concerned within the resolution than he want to admit, and easily didn’t need to be talked out of what they knew could be a controversial transfer.

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