Christian Clark
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first heard Feb 2025
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Yeah. I mean, they needed Kyrie to like carry a huge load in terms of just the half court offense.
Christian, I want to ask you about the behind the scenes of this whole situation, because I imagine much like myself, there are a lot of people wondering how in the world Luka Doncic is a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. I mean, it's two months in and I'm still surprised. And, you know, there's been reporting. Obviously, you've reported it as well, that there's
Obviously, a behind the scenes situation between Mark Cuban and the now president of operations and Patrick Dumont, Nico Harrison. How does that play into this decision to trade Luka Doncic and how that all unfolded?
Yeah, I mean, Mark Cuban hired Nico Harrison to compliment him in terms of making basketball decisions in 2021. But the power dynamics of this organization changed in December 2023 when Mark Cuban had to sell. I mean, when Mark Cuban sold his team to Miriam Alderson, you know, he said, hey, look, I'm still going to have a lot of influence over basketball decisions.
But that's not what happened in reality. You know, I mean, Patrick Dumont is this team's governor. And Patrick Dumont listens to Nico Harrison on basketball decisions. I mean, this was always a Nico Harrison decision. And the sale of the team just created a situation where suddenly Nico had all the juice. Yeah.
I don't really view it as a money thing. I mean, Mary Maddison is worth like $32 billion, and I think they're still even in the luxury tax right now. Sure. I think it's more just an experience thing, and I think what you brought up is Patrick Dumont's first experience running this team was, oh my gosh, Nico Harrison makes trades for P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford.
The reaction nationally to that is mixed, and it turns out they're great trades. These trades help us go to the NBA Finals. So one of the first... really key piece of information he gets about Nico Harrison's decision making is, oh, wow, this guy can really read the board. You know, he really sees the board correctly. So, of course, I'm going to trust this guy.
We got to the finals in my first year owning this team. And, you know, I think Nico Harrison has made a lot of good moves as Mavericks GM. It's just this is a situation where it's like, Don't do it like this. And if you're going to do this, you have to get everything. And they didn't get everything.
You know, you got to get Reeves connect multiple first round picks like they didn't even come close.
You can make a lot of good moves. But then if you trade Babe Ruth, like it's a different story. Right. I mean, look, I know there there was that quote from Jason Kidd. What was said postgame or what's the feeling like after the game? You know, from the Mavericks perspective after this, it was just a very bizarre and awesome basketball game from the Lakers.
Yeah, I would say two things mostly. That was the messaging from the Mavericks. Number one, huge respect to Luka. I mean, Jason Kidd said you have to tip your hat to him. There was a moment after the game where Anthony Davis and Luka Doncic hugged at midcourt that I thought was a cool moment.
You know, right after that game, I asked AD about it in the locker room afterwards, and he was basically like... Yes, we kind of did go through similar things that neither of us asked for this, but really it was a respect thing. I just think that greatness respects greatness, and that was kind of what that was about. And there was frustration, too.
I mean, I asked Anthony Davis about the Fire Nico stuff, and he was just like, I just don't want to comment on that. Jason Kidd got asked, how does this fan base move past this? And it was kind of an interesting answer. So a lot of respect to Luca and... I think, frustration. And what can you even say after you trade this guy and he has 45 points? I mean, what can you say?
It was the weirdest...
arena i think i've ever experienced in the sense that the away fan base was cheering for a player when he caught the ball you usually see boos when a player catches the ball i've never seen that never seen the number of the number of luca lakers jerseys i think spoke yeah spoke volumes i mean when it it looked like a laker home game when in some of those tight shots on tv and i think that
Yeah, when you ask Jason Kidd and Nico that question, I mean, how do you guys come back from this? How do you repair this? They say winning, and you can kind of quibble with that. It's like this is almost deeper than winning. But I think of just how to move forward. You know Kyrie's going to miss significant time next season. They have to do something just to address offensive initiation.
And I think there are big moves you could look at. I think there are medium-sized moves you could look at. I mean, they're already all in, and it's almost like, You, you almost have to go more all in. I mean, they don't control the draft picks 27 through 2030, all those years, but it's almost a situation where it's like, we're already all in.
We just have to, we have to push more chips in and just hope. And they have to do something to address the, the creation and like, you know, half court offense. Yes.
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