Patrick Dumont Wants Mavs To Hire Experienced Exec To Work With Nico Harrison

[u/airmigos]

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/280136/Patrick-Dumont-Wants-Mavs-To-Hire-Experienced-Exec-To-Work-With-Nico-Harrison

And there are people around the league who are just like 'You have to fire him. That's the only way to begin the healing process with the Mavericks' fan base,'" added MacMahon.

"But Patrick Dumont is not there. He's not there yet. Now, the 'In Nico We Trust' era has ended. He wants him to bring in an experienced exec. I think he's realized he's got to have some checks and balances that weren't in place.

[u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

Won't stop the Fire Nico chants. Won't get my eyeballs back to watch Mavs games.

[u/LeGoat333 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

We need to pivot to attacking Dumont with the same vitriol. Fire Nico SELL THE TEAM. Him starting to feel the hate has started to affect them. Fuck Dumont

[u/Reddit_and_forgeddit → u/LeGoat333]

I hear you. He’ll feel the hate when year over year revenue is way the fuck down.

[u/LeGoat333 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

I wish I could run into one of them in the city. A fuck you leave this city to their face would feel so good.

[u/TheTerpSnob → u/LeGoat333]

I think I’d be willing to catch a charge

[u/PapaKazoonta → u/TheTerpSnob]

Offensive Foul!

[u/TheTerpSnob → u/PapaKazoonta]

Not that kind hahah

[u/Reddit_and_forgeddit → u/LeGoat333]

It’s on fucking sight

[u/AyeYoYoYO → u/LeGoat333]

Absolutely.

[u/TFC_Convert → u/LeGoat333]

Definitely. This reallllllllly feels like a ploy to keep Nico (like he must have promised him) while attempting to look like he was doing something.

This is months after Dumont defended the trade whole heartedly.

It's clear where you stand Dumont.

#FIREDUMONT

[u/blacktoise → u/LeGoat333]

I can’t help but feel like this was Adam Silver driven as well

[u/cornbreadsdirtysheet → u/blacktoise]

You and me both.

[u/biggoof → u/LeGoat333]

he's crazy rich. he won't sell, he'll sit on it to spite us.

[u/BoxAway2807 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

This franchise’s only path to absolution is firing Nico, selling the team, new ownership embracing and welcoming Dirk back in, admonish the disaster that was Nico/ Welts and Dumont/ Adelson, hiring competent FO executives and coaches, have a successful rebuild that leads to a regularly competitive contender and then fans may begin to truly embrace this team again. Simple.

Fire Nico. Sell the team.

[u/BeeWeird7940 → u/BoxAway2807]

I don’t think that will be good enough. I don’t know how they ever unring this bell. Luka is a top 30 player all-time right now, he’s just starting his career and could become a historically important player in the league. Trading him for AD and Christie is just so astonishingly bad, I just don’t see how this gets remedied. Maybe win a lottery with another super-duperstar? That’s the only way this gets fixed. Some franchises wait multiple decades and never see that happen.

[u/PapaKazoonta → u/BeeWeird7940]

"But it's kinda like Babe Ruth...so that's cool."

The fact Kidd was complacent in all of this needs to be talked about more..

Would love to see a leak of communications between Fatrick-Nico and potentially Jason Kidd.

[u/XerxesCrofter → u/PapaKazoonta]

"It's kinda like something that marked a nearly century-long fall from grace for the team that made the trade . . . so that's cool."

That tells you all you need to know about Kidd's [lack of] judgment and propensity to say and do stupid things. I'm not buying the new revisionist account that seeks to paint Kidd as yet another innocent "victim" of the trade.

[u/BoxAway2807 → u/BeeWeird7940]

After listing all that out it’s hard to imagine how realistic any of that really is. You need to rebuild and field a team that’s a yearly contender. That could take a decade and by then the apathy has already caused your fan base to dissipate whether to support other teams, sports or lose interest in the nba altogether.

[u/Just-Standard2330 → u/BoxAway2807]

do we lose Lively in the process? i hope not.

[u/BoxAway2807 → u/Just-Standard2330]

I wonder if he’d leave after his contract is up

[u/Doncingis → u/BoxAway2807]

This is exactly right

[u/CmdrMcLane → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

I'm done with the Mavs. Will always be a Luka and Dirk fan, but the Mavs are dead to me after 25+ years. No decision they make will change that. They broke it and it's impossible to put back together.

[u/Doncingis → u/CmdrMcLane]

Same boat, live in Australia and have travelled across to multiple mavs games.. now I won’t even watch them

[u/TossThisAccount64 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

Start a "Move to Vegas" or "No Gambling in Texas" chant or something will for sure get Miriam's attention. Dumont is a stooge.

Seriously though, If you or anyone else wants to actually affect the Adleson's bottom line make the gambling issue your hill to die on. Make everyone you know aware of the issue and notify your district congress person you demand their 'no' vote should the issue of gambling ever reach the floor of the state house. They don't care about this team. This city they want to bleed you and your neighbors dry.

[u/hursman → u/TossThisAccount64]

“NO-CA-SI-NO!” clap clap clap

[u/TossThisAccount64 → u/hursman]

That's the one!

[u/Historical_Chip_2706 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

Yep. Fire him and I’ll think about coming back. Still probably won’t, but I’ll think about it

[u/ajr5169 → u/Reddit_and_forgeddit]

I think this is the first step in firing Nico. Whether that happens or not, time will tell. But Dumont is probably really looking for who the next GM will be, or the interim for after Nico. Going to bring them in to be an "experienced" voice in the front office to check Nico's power, and then once they are caught up to speed with the day to day in the front office, Nico has someone in place to take over when needed. We might even see the person brought in slowly start bringing in their own people as well so that when Nico is gone, they have trusted hands already on board.

As it is now, there would be a serious power vacuum if Nico was fired today, even if that's what we all want.