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Speaker 1: So we've been talking about this impromptu press conference that
Speaker 1: was kind of I guess it's fair to say hastily
Speaker 1: called last night. Media outlets were notified that in less
Speaker 1: than twenty four hours they could come to a press conference.
Speaker 1: It was held at the American Airline Center. It was
Speaker 1: limited media availability. They targeted people, they invited them. Nobody
Speaker 1: on this show was invited or from the station was invited.
Speaker 1: It was the major news outlets, Dallas Wearing News, ESPN,
Speaker 1: the local affiliates DLS.
Speaker 2: Tim Cato was.
Speaker 1: There, Athletic, the Athletic and so it was limited access
Speaker 1: and it was Rick Way else and who's the CEO?
Speaker 1: And it was Nico Harrison, the GM of the team
Speaker 1: who made the very unpopular Luke Donchez trade, and by
Speaker 1: his accounts, you know, hardly anybody knew about that trade
Speaker 1: when he made it, so all of it seems to
Speaker 1: fall on him in terms of the blame, and they
Speaker 1: answer questions. Tim McMahon's got a great account of it.
Speaker 1: We've been looking at Mike Curtis from Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 1: We've been looking at his some of the quotes from
Speaker 1: his account of it, and I think the thing that
Speaker 1: really stands out and looking at these quotes is that
Speaker 1: Nico is doubling down on what his vision of the
Speaker 1: team is and what the style of basketball he wanted
Speaker 1: to play. Everyone who was in that meeting came out soing, well,
Speaker 1: defense wins championships because he said it over and over
Speaker 1: and over, and you know, been according to the account
Speaker 1: I'm looking at is the Mike Curtis story on this.
Speaker 1: You know, he basically, I'm you know, kind of saying
Speaker 1: what he said, and so I'm not reading a long quote,
Speaker 1: but he believes that if we had seen the healthy
Speaker 1: version of the team, that team would have been really,
Speaker 1: really good, and a lot of the fan bases vitriol
Speaker 1: would have been dampened down because it's hard to get
Speaker 1: angry when your team is kicking ass.
Speaker 2: It would have helped.
Speaker 3: That half that he played before he got hurt with
Speaker 3: Kyrie was awesome.
Speaker 2: It would have helped.
Speaker 3: But still the biggest problem to me is you traded
Speaker 3: a twenty five year old global icon and you got
Speaker 3: six years older or seven years old whatever, right with
Speaker 3: ad a guy who's been hurt like his whole career.
Speaker 2: So you know there's problems with it all over the place.
Speaker 3: I do know this if by having this press conference,
Speaker 3: if you even call it that, to me, that's an
Speaker 3: indication that Nico Harrison is staying that they're not going
Speaker 3: to part ways with him, because you wouldn't roll him
Speaker 3: out there today and then part ways with him in
Speaker 3: a couple days of your season ends.
Speaker 1: Well, let me say this as you just add on
Speaker 1: to what you're saying. He was asked if he sees
Speaker 1: himself as the GM moving forward. He said, you have
Speaker 1: three years left on my contract. I see myself finishing
Speaker 1: it out. In terms of Dallas, this is our home,
Speaker 1: my family, they're going to finish school here, this is
Speaker 1: where we live.
Speaker 2: So this is where I'm living, right and I heard.
Speaker 3: I was listening to the ticket Im Oway here and
Speaker 3: they were talking about whether they somebody on the ticket
Speaker 3: was saying they thought he would resign. I'm like, what
Speaker 3: what world are you living in where you think he's
Speaker 3: going to resign.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doubling down. He uh.
Speaker 1: And We've talked about this on our show many times.
Speaker 1: I've told you guys, he loves Anthony Davis. And I
Speaker 1: actually thought that he would try to trade Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: for Anthony Davis. That's kind of how I thought that
Speaker 1: thing was going to go. But obviously he had other
Speaker 1: ideas in mind. But he doubled down on that in
Speaker 1: this several times, saying, you know, there he was asked about, well,
Speaker 1: what about everybody saying you didn't get enough return on
Speaker 1: the trade, And what he's saying is Anthony Davis is
Speaker 1: he says, when you look at the trade, we targeted
Speaker 1: ad with our philosophy of defense wins championships. We wanted
Speaker 1: a two way player to lead our team, and that
Speaker 1: was Anthony Davis. Everyone's going to have their criticism. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what Mark Cuban said, but that's a better
Speaker 1: question left for him. We got what we wanted and
Speaker 1: so again, like when we've had all these conversations, be like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand this. It doesn't make sense. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I get that. It doesn't make sense to you. It
Speaker 1: makes sense to him. That's who we wanted, that's the
Speaker 1: style of basketball he envisions them playing.
Speaker 3: That's the team that he builds, and just so happened
Speaker 3: at this moment in time with the new ownership group.
Speaker 3: There were no checks and balances, right, there was no
Speaker 3: one else to talk to. So this is what one
Speaker 3: guy wanted and there was nobody to stop him because
Speaker 3: any anybody else who could have vetoed the deal was gone,
Speaker 3: was out of the picture.
Speaker 4: Ja Kid had a good relationship with AD two, you know.
Speaker 4: So I'm very curious. I mean, that's my like, if
Speaker 4: you could find out anything like how behind closed doors
Speaker 4: or how much did Jay Kid know about it or
Speaker 4: want this deal to happen or did he not?
Speaker 2: You know, that's what I really want to know.
Speaker 3: My thought is there's no way he I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know double negative. I think he knew. I think
Speaker 3: he probably had to say. And I think if you're
Speaker 3: a political person and you're in a political environment, you
Speaker 3: just kind of get in line once you see the
Speaker 3: way things are going to go.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I could be dead wrong on that, but my thought
Speaker 3: is a tiny, a tiny group had a vote and
Speaker 3: it was Nico leading the way. And I'll bet Jay
Speaker 3: Kid was one of those guys who could vote.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that. I'm just throwing that out there. Well,
Speaker 2: and I will.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap this up pretty quick and get back into
Speaker 1: it later in the show. If ja Kid was in
Speaker 1: on it, it doesn't be hoof because of the volatile nature.
Speaker 1: It doesn't behove everybody to let Jakid know that because
Speaker 1: he's got to go back in that locker room and
Speaker 1: those guys have to trust him.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So if if Jake Kidd was like, yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: want to get rid of you know, Luca, you know,
Speaker 1: they were probably like, okay, well we'll just you know,
Speaker 1: nobody knows about this, so let's leave it that way
Speaker 1: so you can still have the trust and control of
Speaker 1: the locker room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 3: But I think more will come out. I mean, the
Speaker 3: Mavericks may have been getting ahead of something by doing this.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to make of all this. Anyways,
Speaker 3: we'll get back into it later, because Kyrie spoke last
Speaker 3: night and we have the audio and it's juicy, juicy
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