Tim MacMahon, ESPN
You've got an outraged fan base. It's been outraged since the day you made the trade. The overwhelming majority opinion of your fan base is they want you fired. How do you respond to that? And why do you believe that Patrick Dumont should not take them up on that advice?
Nico Harrison
Well, the beauty of Dallas is it is a passionate fan base. For us to reach our goals we need that fan base. And to be honest with you, every trade I've made since I've been here has not been regarded as a good trade, and so sometimes it takes time. When I traded for Kyrie, it was met with a lot of skepticism, and it was graded as a terrible trade. And you didn't see it right away, but eventually everyone agreed that was a great trade. When I traded for Gaff [Gafford] and Lively, again, it was like, ‘Oh, he gave up way too much. These guys aren't going to help us.’
Now that trade, you saw the evidence a lot sooner. So I think a lot of times, trades take a little bit of time, but our philosophy, like I said, going forward, is defense wins championships, and we're built on defense, and this trade cements us for that.
Newy Scruggs, NBC 5
Nico, you see the signs that say, ‘ fire you.’ There's been death threats. Why do you want to continue in this job when there's so much venom out there, right there, and how's it affected you personally, in your family?
Nico Harrison
Personally, I'm optimistic. You know, when you look at the team and you know, a couple times we've had three games in a row, we had eight players, and only seven and a half could actually play. Some of them were restricted minutes, but they didn't stop playing. And so I'm super optimistic about that, and I believe in the trade I made, I believe that that's going to bring us a championship caliber team going forward, and so I'm optimistic and excited about the future, and I do believe that once we win, the fans will come back. My family is solid. I don't really want to talk about them, but my wife and I, we have super grounded kids, and they're not oblivious to everything, but they're well adjusted.
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“Hey man everyone who lives within a 500 mile radius hates you, what are your thoughts?”
I cant tell who’re more confidently stupid this dude or the orange buffoon.
He can’t answer honestly but it’s because he didn’t make this trade without ownership’s approval
This dude fills me with rage and I’m not a mavs fan. I can’t imagine being them.
Nico wants to be the villain of the story so bad, it’s the only logical explanation. No other GM would say they don’t care about the fans like that, it would cost him nothing to give a much more friendly response just to pretend he cares about the fans
The reason he’s not fired is because the owners were fine with trading Luka. It’s crazy how everyone is hyper focused on Nico yet we hear nothing about ownership.
God damn what a banger of a question from McMahon.
Him just speaking just pisseala me off lol
Most hated man in Dallas since Lee Harvey Oswald
LMAO
Interesting to see that journalists are running with the death threat story despite being proven wrong.
Say what you will about MacMahon, but he clearly has no problem being the asshole
Why would they fire him? Ownership either actively pushed for the trade or happily approved of the trade once suggested
Mcmahon trains in what would be the collesseum of modern day podcasting 3x a week arguing with windy and bontemps. Of course he choses violence. Their podcast is 50% yelling.
Tim MacMahon on a generational face turn
Were people really upset about the trade that brought the Mavs Lively?
Looking at with hindsight, it seems like a normal trade. They got off of the Bertans contract and the players they wanted all along
> so sometimes it takes time.
Really curious what basketball historians would say about this trade 15 years from now.
Tbf this bum might have a point about defense winning championships, but with the Mavs being bottom 10 on league defensive ratings, we’ll never know
It’s still so insane to me that they hired the guy most known for catastrophically flubbing Nike’s pitch to Steph
>and to be honest with you, every trade I’ve made since I’ve been here has not been regarded as a good trade
Finally, something that isn’t a lie!
“Super grounded kids, they’re not oblivious tho”
Confirmed Nico knows exactly just how bad public perception is of him, if only from the bullying his poor kids have to endure now
Delusional
I know most on reddit wont, but you have to read the full transcript to truly appreciate the level of bullshit coming out of Nico’s mouth
“defense wins championships” that’s why I traded for Kyrie!
nobody in the world said the Gafford and Lively trade was bad, dude is bullshitting
Wish our politicians got grilled this hard, god damn
The next question should have been: ‘OK, if defense wins championships, why didn’t you see if any other teams would offer you a better package of defensive players, instead of gifting your friend a bargain-basement price for his?’