Nico Harrison Embarrasses Himself Again! (Hour 3)

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Have that chat with him. I have to bring up something very unfortunate that took place today. And let's be real.

Things have been very unfortunate for Dallas Mavericks fans since Luka Doncic was traded on February 1st, 2025. It was a Saturday night. This man got shipped out to Los Angeles. Everybody's like, what? Like, who? What dumb ass would do this?

And then we got the reasons as to why they did it. They don't believe in this fit. And they being the Dallas Mavericks, Nico Harrison, and I guess their owner, Patrick Dumont. Don't believe in his fitness. Don't believe in his diet.

Don't believe in his commitment. His stories that are coming out about how much smoke. He almost said Smuka. Is that new? Smuka? I mean, maybe it's the new hybrid.

Two in one. Yeah, Smuka. They complained about how much Smuka he smoked, how much he drank, how much he didn't play defense. Forget everything that he did last year and leading them to a championship, or at least the NBA finals. We know they didn't win it against the Celtics.

But they moved from Luka. And that's just one of the dumbest things that anybody's ever seen in the world, the basketball. It could be one of the worst trades ever made in sports history. And that's saying a lot. When you take into account the NBA, Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NFL, the NHL, and you're thinking of about approximately 100 years to automatically look at a trade and go, man, this is one of the worst ever.

You really doing it for yourself. And so the Dallas Mavericks, this season ended against the Grizzlies 120 to 106. The Grizzlies are now getting smoked out here by the Thunder. And so now the Dallas Mavericks this season is over. The one where they traded away Louis, Louis, they traded away Luka. They got back Anthony Davis, who just, by the way, what a shock.

He can't stay healthy. Kyrie Irving, this man went out there and tore his ACL. And the Dallas Mavericks look like a jerk. They have alienated Mark Cuban, who's basically said, man, I got nothing to do with this crap that they're doing now. I wouldn't have done it. And then if you also think about someone like, I don't know, Dirk Nowitzki, Dirk Nowitzki apparently wants nothing to do with the Dallas Mavericks.

This is one of the dumbest trades ever. And so today at his end of the year press conference, by the way, he held a private press briefing last week, invite only no video. You can only record the audio, but then they, Oh, don't put out the audio. Everybody had to swear they wouldn't put the audio out. Nico Harrison basically said, yeah, defense wins championships. And why he had that press conference last week, I had no idea. But today he had a big boy press conference with all of the assembled media. And they got a chance to embarrass this man, or at least allow this man to embarrass himself.

This is one of the worst answers you could ever give to anything. Nico Harrison, again, asked about the Luca Doncic trade. This is a general manager of a basketball team that helped put together a roster that Luca helped take to a finals. But Nico Harrison said, I did not know the impact that moving him would have on the fan base. What?

I did know that Luca was important to the, to the fan base. I didn't quite know it to the, to what level, but really the way we looked at it is, you know, if you're putting on the, if you're putting a team on the floor, that's Kyrie, Clay, PJ, Anthony Davis, and Lively, we feel that's a championship caliber team. And we would have been winning at a high level and that would have quieted some of the outrage. And so unfortunately we weren't able to do that. So it just continued to, you know, go on and on. Oh my goodness.

Oh, if you can put two feet in your mouth and still walk, he did it. How? Why? What would possess somebody to say that? That's ignorance. I didn't know that trading this man would have this big of an impact on the fan. Are you just out of touch with reality? I think we know that.

And so am I living in Never Neverland? Like, did he really want to make this trade or did the owner just ultimately say, I don't want to give this guy $375 million? Maybe, maybe Patrick Dumont, the owner realized, I don't like Luca personally. And maybe they just had to make stuff up as to why they traded him because this does not make sense. So very clearly, hey, Nico, answer me this. Are you telling the truth? Did you really want to make this trade or did the owner force you to?

No, not at all. Patrick is, is, reminds me of the leadership that I had at Nike. And, you know, a really good leader doesn't tell the people that work for them what to do. It's a collective, it's a collective, you know, well thought out process to make a big move like that. And then also, unfortunately, I'm super stubborn.

So someone telling me to do something doesn't work too well for me. Well, this ain't Nike, this is the NBA. And you got one boss, not a collective of bosses on a publicly traded company.

This ain't Nike, bro. And it's not a matter of you being stubborn, you might get the boot. It's really that simple. You got a boss. And if he says trade Luca, or get fired, you got to pick one or the other. Come on now. That's another silly, ridiculous comment that he made.

I didn't know what big of an impact that Luke would have. And then this is also a dumb response, very direct response, but also a ridiculous one. Nico Harrison was asked, man, why the hell do you think you still have a job? Why shouldn't you be fired? Luca comes back to town, the Lakers game's happening and you're standing there and there's thousands of people chanting for you to be fired.

Why shouldn't you be fired? Well, one, I think I've done a really good job here. And I don't think I can be judged by the injuries this year. You have to judge the from totality from beginning to end.

And so I think I have a really good working relationship with Patrick. You hit the fast forward button based on the injuries. Yeah, the team went to the finals last year, but then you blew it up and you blew it up to bring in a guy who's older, older, about six, seven years older than Luca, an injury prone Anthony Davis. You already have a guy in his early thirties who's had his own career history of injuries dating back to college and Kyrie Irving. And so to think that you shouldn't be judged by the injuries this year. Yeah, you should, because you traded one agent to you traded one young guy who's out of shape allegedly for another guy who's old and always hurt. And you don't want to be judged by this year.

So what should the average judge you on being fired? Because you certainly did a good job last season, bringing in Gafford and and finding lob threats for Luca Doncic. And then you traded away a generational player because he was fat, out of shape, didn't play defense for older guys who can never stay healthy. What exactly are you expecting next year for Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis, who will now be a year older, also be more injury prone?

You expect them to compete for a title? Listening to Nico Harrison makes me want to stop and have a smoke because this man is either detached from reality. We don't have the whole truth.

And it even reports now that even Patrick Dumont, the owner, is looking at Nico going, Hey, you didn't tell me it was going to be this bad. This is the blind leading the blind in Dallas. Nobody knows a damn thing about basketball.

And someone who agrees with all of this? Well, Charles Barkley, right now this minute, this second, the New York Knicks are hosting the Detroit Pistons in New York City game two of their matchup, Detroit leading 32 to 25. New York Knicks lead the series one to nothing. Charles Barkley spoke on NBA on TNT in the pregame. And they discussed these comments that you just heard by Nico Harrison. I say that Nico Harrison, well, he's blind.

Charles Barkley says what he should be is mute. Listen to this. Nico Harrison, I consider you a friend of mine. I wish you nothing but the best. I thought you did a good job last year with the Mavs. And obviously, whatever happened this year didn't work out.

Man, don't do no more press conferences. Like, I don't even know what you're doing. I really don't. Like, I got sympathy and love for you.

But I have zero idea what you're trying to do. This war is over, brother. You got to take in the L. I hope you keep your job.

I hope that team get healthy. But man, don't do any more interviews. Please don't. Yeah. And this is someone a lot of people know him personally and have worked with him because of Nico Harrison's job position formerly at Nike. Like he was basically a player liaison and a talent manager at Nike. And so all the players in the league know him. You have a legacy Nike talent and Charles Barkley, Charles Barkley, if you're not familiar, Nike, Charles Barkley's thirty fours.

I got a couple pair of those. I love him. He knows all of these guys. And so to see him in the position that he's in right now and to some of these dudes who know him personally, to hear Charles Barkley say no more press conferences, it can't get any worse. And every time I hear him speak, I'm just we either have the whole truth, like Nico is just a terrible GM that is too smart for his own good or the owner is controlling everything and it's just hanging him out to dry. Picky, which one do you think is the case? Is it are they both really that dumb? Or is the owner just saying, hey, you need to take the fall for this, not me?

I think they're both really that dumb. Just because you still approved it. You know, you had the chance to say no, no, thank you.

That's not going to do it here. So you're right. I mean, he's I mean, obviously, Nico's one taking all the public bullets.

He's the one talking every single time he gets the opportunity to. But you still like he presented it. It's a bad idea. But you still said you gave it the stamp of approval. OK, let's do it. I trust you. I believe in you.

Whatever may be, you are selling me. They're both culpable. Yeah, it does. It stops at the owner. It's a shame that they're either both tone deaf. One, the fact that the owner is tone deaf enough not to understand what Luca means to the team, let alone the fans. But then at the same time to give it the OK to go ahead and move like the buck stops with him like it.

You're correct. The buck stops with the owner to say, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm going to move on from Luca. And then for Nico Harrison to actually publicly state. I did not know the impact that moving him would have on the city and the fans. What what type of crack are y'all smoking down here in Dallas?

Like, I feel like I'm in a bad episode of The Twilight Zone every time I read a quote or I hear a soundbite from Nico Harrison. And now even Patrick Dumont, who right after the trade, basically said, oh, yeah, he doesn't Luca doesn't work hard enough, like guys like Shaquille O'Neal. What? These the fans in Dallas, I can't to say they deserve better is an understatement.

This is garbage that they are feeding them right now. It's the J.R. sport ratio on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break.

We come back. We're going to have a chat with someone who played in the NBA. He now broadcasts for the NBA on behalf of the Pelicans. You can listen to him on Sirius XM, NBA radio, and he knows everything ball. He played it.

He lived it the highest level. We're going to have a chat with Antonio Daniels. The J.R. sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief.

It is the J.R. sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. The NBA playoffs are underway. And right now we need to talk with someone who is he's been in the playoffs a time or two. I want himself a championship right now. You can hear him on NBA or Sirius XM NBA radio. You can also catch him on the Pelicans broadcast, NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs.

And joining us right now is Antonio Daniels. A.D., how are you, man? I'm good, brother. How you doing, Jeff?

Listen, I'm living and breathing. I got nothing to complain about. That's good, huh? I hear that. Ain't that the truth? How about that?

Now, I got to start here. I know you've heard the comments made by Nico Harrison earlier today. I know you know everything that was said last week and months before and Patrick Dumont.

Am I living in the Twilight Zone? Are the Mavs fans being punked or is Nico just being sent to the front lines to take a beating? What's going on with the Mavs? Listen, I'm trying to think. Well, you know how long we talked about this on our Sirius XM show?

I struggle with this. I really do. Because I think there has to be a 30 for 30 that comes out about the Luca trait. There has to be.

Because there has to be something behind the scenes, J.R., that we just don't know about. I have a hard time believing that on a random night in February, Nico Harrison just woke up like, you know what? I think I'm going to trade Luca this evening. No way. No way. You don't just trade somebody away like that. I don't care if, even if you don't think that the Mavericks fan base would have responded the way that they responded, you still don't do that.

Because that's the first time in history a player of that magnitude has ever been moved mid-season without asking to be trade. Come on, man. I have a hard time believing this is solely on Nico. And maybe I'm the foolish one. Maybe he did do that. But I just have a hard time believing that this did not start above Nico and that now Nico is the man that has to fall on the sword. Well, Nico said today, and maybe he's fallen on the sword more today, he said, hey, I made the decision.

OK, but we know where the buck stops. What else can he say? Yeah, right. What else can he say?

Like, realistically speaking, let's just throw out a hypothetical scenario, right? If they told him this is what he has to do to keep his job. What else can he say? The thing that he can never come out and say was, look, I was told that I was told to move Luca. This wasn't my doing.

I was told to trade Luca. He can't do that. So what he has to do is stay politically correct. And when he's sitting in a room with all Dallas Mavericks media, just continue to say, you know what?

Divas wins championships, divas win championships, divas win championships. You know, the thing I've realized, they are when I'm passionate when I'm passionate about something, I have no problem articulating it. No problem explaining it. It's when I lack passion for something that I struggle with it. And when they put Nico in that room because they continue to parade him out in front of the media, just him, he's having a problem explaining why he traded Luca. That's what I struggle with. If you were all on board with moving Luca, it wouldn't be a problem articulating your thought process as far as what you were thinking and why you chose to move a top five player in the league.

But when it wasn't your doing, you're going to struggle to articulate it to try and put the pieces of the puzzle together. NBA champion broadcaster Sirius XM, NBA radio Antonio Daniels is joining us. We may have to wait on that 30 for 30.

It may take 30 years for us to figure out what the heck is going on in Dallas. AD, if we take a flip over to the team that's actually playing right now, the Los Angeles Lakers, they took that game one loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves 117 to 95. Look, this was a Lakers team that was rolling.

Size was always a concern. How do you think they match up with these Wolves? I'll say what I said last week before this series even started. I feel like out of all the teams in the Western Conference, the way they're constructed, Minnesota will be the toughest matchup for the Lakers. I feel like Minnesota will give them a tougher matchup than Houston would, then Oklahoma City would, then Denver would, then the Clippers would. Because a lot of what Minnesota has is what the Lakers struggle with. One, they got a star in Anthony Davis, I mean in Anthony Edwards, that can attack anyone. The Lakers have a lot of different guys that you can target, that you can put in the action. You can put Luca in the action.

You can put Austin Reeves in the action. You can put LeBron in the action, and you can attack those guys. And second, Minnesota is big. You know the thing that the Lakers cannot do? They can't play big boy basketball.

They're not constructed to. So if it's a big team, Jackson Hayes is your starting center, and he's long, and he's athletic, and he can run. But I'll tell you what, to tell him to keep Rudy Gobert off the offensive glass, to tell LeBron James to go down there and bang with Julius Randle, or Rudy Hachimura, and the fact that you have a star in Anthony Edwards that can take advantage of isolation situations. Listen, this league to me is all about matchups. It's all about matchups. I'm not saying Minnesota is the best team in the Western Conference. What I am saying, and what I do believe, is Minnesota, out of all the teams in the Western Conference, presents the most issues for the Los Angeles Lakers. O'Brien Antonio, you bring up the Oklahoma City Thunder. We know on the course of the regular season they were the best squad. 68 wins to only 14 losses. Typically you get that many W's. People are looking at you as the team that should go out there and win a championship.

Forget that for a second. But do you believe that the Thunder will be the team that will come out of the West? O'Brien Man, that's, as much as I love the OKC Thunder, I am in a, you have to show me stage.

Because I just, I don't believe in skipping steps. I believe in every team has to kind of take their bumps and bruises along the way to an NBA championship. You know, two years ago, they didn't make the playoffs. Last year, obviously they made to the playoffs, lost in the second round.

What's the next step? Now are they skipping the Western Conference Finals and going straight to the NBA Finals? Or do they lose in the Western Conference Finals?

I struggle because they check a lot of boxes. They really do. They had issues this summer and they went on to dress them by getting Isaiah Hardin Stein. Again, now they can play big boy basketball too. I have a hard time seeing a team in the Western Conference that can beat the Oklahoma City Thunder four times, four times. See, it's crazy how worse they are because I feel like, like the Lakers would give OKC problems, but OKC will get Minnesota problems and Minnesota gives the Lakers problems.

You know what I mean? So it's almost like a, a triangle here and I'm not forgetting about the Clippers in Denver, but it was almost like two years ago when the Lakers couldn't beat Denver, Denver couldn't beat Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City couldn't beat the Lakers. It's all about matchups. Yeah, we're right in the hell of a matchup. We're getting, you talk about the Nuggets and the Clippers.

They'll be in action in about 90 minutes from now. We're being joined by Antonio Daniels, NBA champion, a co-host on Sirius XM's NBA radio give and go to kind of flip over to the East. We know the Celtics are the presumed favorites, but I got to ask you this. Unfortunately, Tatum's mom was caught on a hot mic just saying, hey, do you want me to go over to Orlando's locker room? OK, a whole lot of nothing about nothing.

But if I'm in the other locker room and maybe if I walked away with a W, I'd be having a field day with that. Like, like I feel like there's a little mark against Tatum. His mom is out here trying to defend him like this is, I don't know.

Tatum is such a great player, such a great guy, but it feels like he's always getting beat up in a court of public opinion. And now mom helping him doesn't help. Well, I mean, I didn't I didn't have a problem with it. I mean, obviously she's not going to. You know, as a parent, you always going to defend your baby.

I'm 50 years old. My mom always tells me all the time you always gonna be my baby. So I get it. I completely understand. I completely understand what she's coming from.

Obviously, she wasn't serious, but you're right. He's constantly getting beat up in the court of public opinion. But that that comes with the territory.

That's something that comes into territory. I tell you what, if you want to talk big picture here, can you see another team in the in the NBA finals from either side, Eastern Conference, Western Conference that is constructed to beat the Boston Celtics four times in the seven game series now to the non on me neither. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They just struggled. So Tatum Brown and Porzingis just struggled and they still smacked Orlando. Still, with their top three players struggling, struggling big time, they still smacked Orlando. Like they have such a deep team and you have to be able to match them offensively. When you got a team that's out there now shooting fifty five, sixty threes, how do you keep up with that if your team's not constructed that way and no team in the league is constructed like that? You can't, especially in one of the guys is seven foot three and block shots on the other end to you.

You can't you can't do it. Antonio Daniels is here with us on the J.R. sport brief show it just to kind of flip gears a little bit. We heard earlier today that Cooper Flagg, no shock, is going to enter into the NBA draft.

He's going to go number one to whatever team ends up with the number one pick. When you've seen Cooper Flagg, it's hard to draw comparisons. He's a do it all type basketball player. But what impresses you about his game? You know, for me, it's the fact that he does everything well. Like I haven't seen like a real weakness thus far.

Not yet. And you know what's wild about college? Like I'll give you a few players and think of who they were in college.

Right. And tell me if you saw what is in front of you now in college. Did you see Tyler Herro doing what he's doing right now in college?

No, not to the extent. Devin Booker. Oh, no. Coming off Kentucky's bench. No, no. Right. Donovan Mitchell.

Oh, no, no, no. You can go down the list of different guys. And when they get to the NBA and now it's about space and opportunity is where you see a lot of guys take that next step. You know, I feel like I feel like this is Cooper Flagg's basement where he is right now.

This is his basement because when he gets to the next level and now he can use all the tools that the Lord has blessed him with. But now he has space. The thing about college is there is no illegal defense. You know, everybody sits in the lane. Everybody plays his own.

So now you obviously have to adhere to whatever team that you're playing on in this particular instance, Duke and their zone offense. But when you get to the next level and that was you one on one to get somebody else like I heard he really shined when he played in the USA with the USA team. You know why? Because there's space, there's space, there's opportunity. So now all the skills that he has, along with the side that he's blessed with. Now he has the space to put that like put that in put that in the forefront. He couldn't do that in college. I'm excited to see what this young man becomes. Absolutely.

A.D. last question for y'all. I know you call the the Pels games too as well down in New Orleans. We got another guy who came out of Duke and Zion is there's so much being changed around in Louisiana with David Griffin now out. Do you think Zion can stick with the Pelicans or is that just about done?

Do they need to just move on? Everybody need to go their separate ways. I'm definitely not there. I'm definitely not the obviously I'm the color analyst. I don't make any organizational decisions but what I saw from Zion and the games that he played this year and what I've seen from him since he's been there like he is man that that dude is a game changer and when I say a game changer he instills confidence in everyone like his teammates the uh the crowd the coaching staff when he is on the floor whoever you are playing against you feel like if he's playing you have a chance to win that game you can't say that about a lot of guys you cannot say that about a lot of guys so I mean again now you have Joe Dumars that is stepping in uh for David Griffin and it's his show to run him and Willie Green it's their show to run Blyson Graham, Swin Cash and for me it's my job to sit back and call games but what I saw out of number one this year as far as his ability to take over games against incredible defensive teams his ability to problem solve on the fly look I don't know what the future holds but I know that young man is about as talented as they come.

And we're gonna we're gonna find out sooner than later A.D. always a pleasure to have a chat with you where can I told them a bunch of times but you tell them where can people follow and listen to you and everything that you're up to? Uh well I'm on Sirius XM, NBA radio every day from uh one to four eastern standard time uh with me and Rob Perez World Wide Wild and um Twitter A.D., A. Daniels 33 um that's about it that's about it I love the sport love to talk about it so let's chat. Appreciate it no no chance that you're gonna be back on the court helping nobody no time soon running the show right them days over? Oh them days is over I actually played for the first time in three years uh I pick up this past weekend and I pulled my groin yeah that should tell you enough. Oh boy hey don't go no hey listen we want you to be Antonio Daniels not Anthony Davis so just chill out A.D. okay? Exactly I'm back on the sideline as long as I'm I'm on the sideline I'm good with this I need to be right where I'm at. All right feel better we'll catch you on down the line A.D. thank you so much. Appreciate you brother always. No doubt about it that Antonio Daniels NBA champion with the say it Antonio Spurs you can catch him on Sirius XM NBA radio you can catch him during the Pelicans games and hopefully yeah you catch him on the sidelines watching not uh pulling any groins and nobody trying to do that I mean come on that that's uh that's a painful it's the JR Sport Breeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network hey look the phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler that's 888-710-4ISN that's 888-710-4ISN I'll get to your calls we'll talk some more NBA action based on what we just heard from Antonio Daniels we do have another matchup and another game tonight the Los Angeles Clippers taking on Denver so we have a whole hell of a lot more to do it's the JR Sport Breeze show on the Infinity Sports Network you're listening to the JR Sport Brief it is the JR Sport Breeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network thank you so much to NBA champion current analyst on Sirius XM and Pelicans thank you to Antonio Daniels for joining us in the last break like a lot of people myself included he feels confident that the Boston Celtics are the favorites to walk away with the NBA championship he also has no idea what the heck is going on with Dallas and the Mavericks Nico Harrison earlier today confessing he had no idea what type of impact that trading Luca would have on the fan base he had no idea what Luca meant to the fans of Dallas Antonio Daniels is like man I don't believe this this has to come from the owner somewhere we're going to find out sooner than later if you missed that conversation with Antonio go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app A-U-D-A-C-Y if you want to call me you can do that too 888-710-4ISN that's 888-710-4ISN I do want to touch upon a few things that Antonio did bring up he did mention the Los Angeles Lakers and his thoughts on what they can or cannot do moving forward and so there's more to get into but let's go to the phone lines right now we have Norman Norman is calling up from Oklahoma you're on the JR Sportbreeze show what's up Norman what's happening there JR how are you I'm doing fine man I just wanted to chime in on what you were speaking about earlier couple of days there one if what you were saying is true about Luca about the smoking and the drinking and the not being committed to play on both sides of the ball out of shape I'd get rid of him too he's not he's not bigger than the whole team he's not bigger than the coach or the team that's somebody I don't want my old school guy that's somebody I don't want on my team regardless of who it is or how how great someone says that that's a that's a that's a bad that if my p that's a bad a bad well having have I mean that's that's one thing to look at that's one way to look at things but in the modern NBA I don't know if that's that's how you win and the name of the game is to win the name of the game is to put butts in seats and win a championship and Luca Doncic I don't want to say single-handedly but he was the primary and driving factor of even getting them to the NBA Finals last year and in a world where we have just over the past couple of weeks several months we've seen a championship coaches Michael Malone and uh Boonenholzer it's just two coaches that have gotten the boot and so Jason Kidd here certainly hasn't won a championship yet as a head coach didn't won a championship as a player as a role player later in his career with Dallas like to say that hey a player is not bigger than a coach I would not agree with that not in the current era that we live in the coaches are pretty much cast aside like nothing what's much more difficult to get your hands on in the current NBA is not a coach it's not the guy's teammates it's a star and this star is still in his his early mid-20s and took them to a championship to compete for one that's why this team this owner and this GM they are being kind of beat up left and right because this might go down as one of the worst trades not in NBA history but in sports history uh me uh being here in Oklahoma when the thunder first became the thunder you had Westbrook you had Durant you had James Horton all drafted all draft yet you had all you had all of those players on the team and they went to what the western conference finals or they went to the NBA finals or loss of the Miami heat so it's okay and according to what James Horton said they could have won two championships NBA championships back to back if Sam Preston would have left that team alone my point is I don't my point is I don't think my point is I don't think that they care anything about what you all think or the fans think yeah I don't think they do because I agree and that and that makes them stupid that makes them dumb that makes them one in a I don't know Babe Ruth got moved and sold to the Yankees in 1919 I would say some of the dumbest things that we've seen since then I think we got to go to the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings making that Herschel Walker trade I'm gonna say that was maybe 89 or 90 that was terrible that set the Cowboys up to win a few championships in the 90s and I really have to hit the fast forward button to 2025 to find something else that dumb I don't have to look across the world of sports to look at what a an owner does a lot of the owners of professional sports franchises have no idea about the sport that they're actually running we don't have to look any further than a team that was formerly an Oakland now in Sacramento there are a lot of owners that are completely ignorant to what it means to actually participate in sports I don't think this is anything crazy to say there are a lot of sports fans who are more informed about the actual sport than their owners and that's what makes this this terrible Norman and thank you for calling from Oklahoma and I don't think there's any type of comparison to what's going on in Oklahoma City they had an amazing job in drafting three future hall of famers okay they had to make a choice as to how they wanted to maintain the team and they let James Harden walk you know was James Harden going to be happy with making less than the other two dudes that's something easy for James Harden to say by the way I know Sergi Baca personally he wasn't going to make the money that James Harden was going to make and then be a good soldier about it and so at the end of the day you're damn right Patrick Dumont doesn't care what I think or the fans in Dallas think and Patrick Dumont based on the decisions that he's made he doesn't know a damn thing about basketball and I could judge that by some of the crap that's come out of his mouth I would think that Nico Harrison knows a little bit more about basketball having been around the players for a long time having watched the league having played in college I think he knows something about basketball which makes all of this just even more just just odd because you don't hear this type of stuff in a barbershop people thought that this was a joke people thought that Shams was being hacked this is terrible and so you're right an owner not caring about the fans of the media oh yeah that's not groundbreaking but what he did is dumb it's stupid it's ridiculous it's terrible it's a shame it's a mockery it's a disaster Hickey did I hit all of them are there any more well let's just get the thesaurus out there let's dig deep what else we got they they he he Dumont they the Mavs how about this all-encompassing they are all of the things okay they're all of the things this is bad there's no defending this okay and if the Dallas Mavericks come back next year and win a championship with with Kyrie and Anthony Davis and in Klay Thompson god bless him everybody's gonna have to eat a lot of crow everybody's gonna have to go oh my god that really happened I I don't expect it even with that type of roster I don't see enough depth you know where's their secondary scoring option who's the guy who's gonna handle the ball outside of of Kyrie Irving you gotta wait on these two guys to be healthy and you gotta think that Klay Thompson is gonna stay how the hell he is come on now this is it's sad there's no no defending it it's the jr sport reshow here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network we are gonna take a break when we come back I'm gonna give you an update on what's going on with the New York Knicks right now in the Detroit Pistons we'll talk about some of the other matchups that have taken place we'll talk about the Lakers how about this we got the Nuggets and the Clippers tonight we have so much we have so much more to do of course at the end we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history it's the jr sport reshow coast to coast on the infinity sports network