PTI reacts to Mavericks firing Nico Harrison 🗣️ ‘OWNERSHIP NEEDS TO TAKE SOME BLAME!’ – Wilbon
Pardon The Interruption’s Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discuss the Dallas Mavericks’ decision to fire GM Nico Harrison following public backlash over trading away superstar Luka Doncic and a 3-8 start to the season
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“Tony has been screaming for this since February”
Who else is sick of sports pundits making people lose their jobs?😂
facts, that trade had to require more than buy off from the owner to do. The fact that nobody is callin for the owner to me is kinda crazy. Unless ur saying that Nico had that much influence over you, which aint any better, you let a GM walk over you.
Wilbon is such a liberal plug.
Nico the fall guy, smh Dallas owner didn't want to pay luka all that money
But it was the owner who ordered nico to make the trade. Are the fans clueless?
If nico was white wilbon wouldnt be saying this I'm sorry
Let's face it, Luka does so much more for himself and his career playing for the lakers. He was just going to be a local legend in Texas, but with the lakers, he's aiming to go global.
The club's resurgence will require a major cultural change…which will not be possible with Dumond
poor Nico he’s just obeying his boss😢😢😢
People calling him the scapegoat are idiots.
1. You dont fire the fall guy.
2. The new owners didn't know anything about basketball and trusted Nico too much because they went to the finals the year before.
3. Even if they told him to do the trade, I'm sure they didn't tell him "Go after AD and ONLY AD". The way he conducted the trade wouldve been grounds for termination in and of itself.
4. The answers he gave afterwards were pitiful and frankly disrespectful to so many people, it just reaffirmed his level of arrogance and shows hes the kind of person who would do this.
5. Its a salary cap league, the owners have to pay someone anyway, trading Luka so you dont have to pay him makes ZERO sense.
Nico was a power freak and wanted the only person who could resist his power gone, and he did, now hes suffering the consequences. Calling him the fall guy is stupid and just makes you sound too simple minded to really analyze what happened.
Nico and Alfred E Nueman had ego issues. They thought they were bigger than the team, and the Dallas fans showed them otherwise. And I don't think this is over yet. I think they hurt the organization financially for a long time.
Wow, people were paying the tickets basically to scream "fire Nico". I'm shocked it didn't happen earlier.
Wilbon, the owner was "involved" to the extent he told Nico "Well, you're the basketball guy!". This move was Nicos.
Oh yeah wilbon, do you think the owner told "Trade for AD and ONLY AD!"?? The way he did the trade was grounds for termination on its own, stop trying to pass the buck. He did something stupid out of pure arrogance and now he's paying for it.
Nico's NBA trajectory will be remembered by this. Unless he wins a chip with another team. Then it will be remembered by this and the chip. To kind of erase the Luka trade, he would probably need to win at least a couple of chips as a GM. Maybe three.
Nico was a pawn
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 This is so impressive
Ownership take responsibility???? You mean the gambling executive and golddigging foreign agent are gonna take responsibility??? Good luck with that one!
NICO is Rob Pelinka's right hand man then, STILL TODAY! That is what happened. People are forgetting about him also releasing Brunson. That was another Huge paycheck for him from the Knicks. He should be the main arrest for the FBI for inside trading!
Wilbon wants to blame Bruce Pearl for the trade. He figures blame the Jew. Now, he wants the Maverick owner to take the blame. I wonder who owns the Mavs? Oh yeah, she has a lot in common with Mr Pearl.
Imagine how Davis feels about everyone disrespecting a team for trading a player for him 😂
Like the owner didn't have anything to say , u all believe that 😂😂😂
He at least got paid, more than what you can say about most of our employers.
Mavs Owners and Dumont should not be spared! They are part of the Satire this Mavs franchise is running. 😂😂😂
Lakers 8-3 vs MAVS 3-8. Remember, they traded Porzingis too, who then won a ring with the Celtics. They showed absolutely no patience with Luka or Porzingis but do with Kyrie & AD. They literally traded him while still on the DL for another DL player. The firing looks to be the first logical step to now having to save Flagg from the same fate. MAVS aren't out of the woods yet, they paired Flagg with players on the DL, which is where he's heading, if he doesn't leave. MAVS made the same mistake with Flagg in 2025, as with DSJ in 2017. But back to '25 they traded away Luka & exactly 1 month later, blewout Uncle Drew's knee. What does that tell you? That arena's atmosphere was a lynch mob. … Their lineup is still messed up, 2 guards out now & a PF short.
Of course Wilbon is sticking up for Nico….
He had no choice to Luka because ownership didn’t wanna pay Luka the super max. Luka wasn’t gonna sign for anything other than that. Nico tried to get something out of it without letting Luka walk for nothing
Yeah but this was Nico’s master plan, he said it himself on press conference, the owner knows nothing about basketball nor about his fan base !!!!?
Even if this had been the owners idea, Nico should have known better!!!!!! Luka is a generational talent! He is not replaceable!!!! A GM? Very replaceable!!!!!
The fact that three teams — Atlanta, Sacramento, and Dallas didn’t want Luka is wild.
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Nico is a scapegoat
SELL THE TEAM!!!, new chant at games
Wilbon is honestly so embarrassing sometimes. Of course he must do everything he can to make the big bad owner the villain in this story. The owner is a putz, yes, but Nico's brain cooked up and justified this absurdly ridiculous trade.
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SELL. THE. TEAM.
Sell the team to folks WHO LOVE BASKETBALL, WHO KNOW BASKETBALL.
Marc Cuban would not have approved this trade. He said it multiple times.
Hey Nico karma's a BI/TH ISN'T IT YOU F-ING POS SOB !!!!!
PTI is forever LEGENDARY