The Dallas Mavericks made a major change to their entrance workplace earlier this week when the franchise fired basic supervisor Nico Harrison. The transfer got here lower than a 12 months after Harrison orchestrated some of the controversial trades in NBA historical past, which noticed Luka Dončić go to the Los Angeles Lakers and Anthony Davis return to Dallas as a part of the deal.
Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki commented publicly for the primary time since Harrison was fired on Friday, stating that this transfer “ought to’ve occurred this summer season.”
“Too many distractions, an excessive amount of occurring to maintain going this fashion,” Nowitzki mentioned on the Prime pregame present. “This transfer most likely ought to’ve occurred this summer season, truthfully. I did not need this damaging power and this black cloud over the Cooper Flagg period. … This commerce simply made no sense. It made no sense to them, and actually, there was no clarification for it both.”
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Nowitzki, some of the celebrated gamers in Dallas’ franchise historical past, performed his total NBA profession (1998-2019) with the group. He even performed with Dončić for one season in the course of the 2018-19 marketing campaign earlier than his retirement.
“It was very unhappy,” Nowitzki mentioned. “Very unhappy how that ended. The followers really feel like they obtained robbed of truly seeing the top, seeing this by means of. Seeing Luka develop right into a champion sooner or later. Felt like they by no means obtained to see the top to this, very heartbreaking. However now I feel it is time to transfer on.”
Dallas is off to a 3-9 begin to the season and has misplaced six of its final seven video games. Harrison, who was employed by the franchise in 2021, was fired the day after a 116-114 loss at residence to the Milwaukee Bucks by which followers inside the sector chanted “hearth Nico” all through.
