Tim MacMahon
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74 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And he feared giving him the supermax, and he punted on him, I would say prematurely.
Yeah, I would certainly agree with that. And look, that relationship obviously also goes back to the relationship with Kobe. Rob Palenka was Kobe's longtime agent. You know, Nico was his right-hand man at Nike. Those three traveled the world together, you know, got to have a, you know, a real bond. And Nico could trust Palenka to keep things secret. Of course,
Was it in Polinka's best interest to keep things secret? Absolutely. You know, because, and then he could use the card that you just mentioned. Hey, I can't check with Bill Duffy, you know, Luca's agent. Well, if I, listen, if I can't call Duff,
I mean, how do I know that he'll want to stick around to play in sunny Southern California for the most glamorous franchise in NBA history while one of his good buddies is coaching the team? I mean, gee whiz, could the Lakers attract talent to play with him? It's always been so difficult. Like, geez, we're taking such a risk here.
And he walked away with a 20-31 pick in his pocket, with a 20-30 swap in his pocket. Dalton Connect wasn't part of the deal. Whatever you want to say. So yeah, Palenka keeping it secret. Nika wanted to do it because he felt like he had to blindside Luka. And as I write in the book, after six years of the Mavericks kissing Luka's butt, he did get shanked in the back.
It's absolutely what happened here. Felt like he had to blindside Luka. Felt like he had to blindside Bill Duffy. And I would argue that it worked against him. And, you know, the other thing is I think the fear of the Supermax was or logic was extremely flawed logic. Nico talking about it's going to be a tumultuous summer. Number one, Luca was signing the Supermax, and Nico knew that.
Luca was about to close on his forever home in Dallas, and that was known throughout the organization. He was not going to turn down the biggest contract in NBA history. There were teams that were lining up just in case, but Luca was staying in Dallas. They feared it as an investment, which to me is, wow.
Even if you think the body's going to break down, look what Kevin Durant got in the trade market in his 30s after he'd had an Achilles and missed a whole bunch of games for other injuries with the Nets. If you have Luka locked up on a long-term deal, that means you've got to stick in the relationship for another year and a half.
You've got to deal with having a perennial MVP cannon on your roster for another season and a half. Um, and you know, the, the things that you don't like about them, but could you imagine if in the summer of what it would be 2026, the Mavericks basically announced the league, Hey, we're trading Luca before training camp.
So what kind of bidding war do you think would have, uh, would have started after that?
Well, no, because it was it was one guy with a cell phone. Right. OK. So like, I don't know if he saw the cell phone or not. I think it was just probably not. I think that that was like it's a moment that was, frankly, it was funny at the time. And then now in hindsight, it's like, oh, but I think people might be making too much of that moment.
I haven't actually talked to Finn about it, but I think it was just more of like, hey, not in the hallway, man. Don't be drinking a beer out here for everybody to see. Behind closed doors, cool. Not in the hallway. That was my read on it, at least.
I think that's a little weird. Well, especially because Luca is an adopted Texan and you know, like, you know, you don't take a man's beer out of his hand in Texas. That's for damn sure. Um, but I, I, I do believe that Michael Finley was a strong supporter of Luca from start to finish. I would say that I would say that.
Well, and I just don't think the guy knows much about basketball and there's this, like all these conspiracy theories. Oh, this is a, you know, the management demanded this because they're trying to depress the value of the franchise to move it to Vegas. Like this is QAnon whack job stuff. Like, no, that's not what happened. Nico Harrison managed up, right?
Nico Harrison convinced Patrick Dumont, a guy who is a year in to having control of an NBA franchise, that, hey, we've got to get rid of this guy. You know, Luka doesn't work hard. Luka's bad for the culture. Supermax would be a terrible investment. He convinced Dumont of that, and he'd earned Dumont's trust because, listen,
The moves that Nico made before the deadline last year, which by the way, at the time, it wasn't like people were talking about the Mavs made great moves around the league. There was a lot of questions about them. But Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington ended up being critical pieces to a team that caught fire down the stretch of the regular season and made a finals run.
So Nico had built up some credibility, a lot of credibility, I would say, with Patrick Dumont based on the success of of his first transaction cycle with Dumont in control of the team. But, I mean, Dumont doesn't know much about basketball. That's pretty clear. He also doesn't have a great feel for public speaking.
Sure. And when he when he made those comments, we're talking about it was an interview with Brad Townsend of Dallas Morning News. It was the day after the Anthony Davis's abbreviated Mavericks debuts. So that the first home game following trade, when there was that huge protest outside the arena, you know, and sell the team F Nico, they even said some nasty things about me, which wasn't very nice.
One of them was don't buy the book, which I do appreciate the free publicity, but anyways, uh, That protest was held in the shadows of a statue of a gentleman named Dirk Nowitzki. And if you need to check on the spelling, the street right there is Nowitzki Way, right? And on that statue, 21 letters summing up 21 seasons. Man, you know, the man's game. Loyalty never fades away.
If you're going to start naming NBA legends who are like the epitome of discipline and hard work, and your target audience is a Dallas fan base, and you leave Dirk out of that, oh my God. It was honestly one of the worst PR moves I've ever seen in my life.
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