Speaker 1: Next on the drive, Tim McMahon dropping dimes for your
Speaker 1: NBA daily assists, Van McMahon, Van McMahon. That is in
Speaker 1: old Land, Texas flood as it gets mud. He's man
Speaker 1: Van McMahon, Van McMahon.
Speaker 2: Then man.
Speaker 3: NBA All Star Weekend. Time for a little time off.
Speaker 3: I imagine our next guest, Well, maybe they're sending him to
Speaker 3: the bay, maybe they're sending him to San fran But
Speaker 3: Tim mcmanon Little NBA on a Tuesday, are you getting
Speaker 3: the hell out of dodge?
Speaker 2: You got to cover this All Star weekend.
Speaker 1: Taudy Partner, I will be nowhere near San Francisco. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take me a little cist over the weekend.
Speaker 2: That a guy. Is this a staycation?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna be hopping on a plane and laying
Speaker 3: out a beach somewhere.
Speaker 1: I am in a position right now where I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be sharing my whereabouts anymore than i have to.
Speaker 1: I've gotten some uh, some heats and some or some heat,
Speaker 1: and some unpleasant direct messages and all these kind of
Speaker 1: things lately. So yeah, I'm gonna keep it age, keep
Speaker 1: it age.
Speaker 3: You know what, we might have to start referring to
Speaker 3: you as a celebrity reporter. We typically utilize that only
Speaker 3: for mcminimon But if you have evolved to the point
Speaker 3: where you are not willing to share your vacation plans,
Speaker 3: you may have arrived as a celebrity reporter.
Speaker 1: Now, Tim ill just say, cautious reporter, A costious reporter?
Speaker 1: Who get this? You know what I'm being brained as
Speaker 1: by some mass fans right now?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 1: A mouth A mouthpiece for the Maths organization. That is
Speaker 1: one hell of a career term for me. Wow, only
Speaker 1: months removed from being the primary mass hater in the market,
Speaker 1: but now I'm the mouthpiece. It's It's funny how facts
Speaker 1: uh you know you can just consistently report facts, but
Speaker 1: feelings can can change rapidly.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, you have to educate me. Why is
Speaker 2: this happening?
Speaker 3: What have you done to be branded something that you
Speaker 3: very clearly are not.
Speaker 1: The number one thing I did was report the Mavericks
Speaker 1: reasoning for making the most shocking trading and be a history.
Speaker 1: Then the number two thing I did was report that
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison has received death threats and racial epithets and
Speaker 1: all the kind of awful thing that comes along with Sports,
Speaker 1: saying them in the social media and internet.
Speaker 3: Era, Well, obviously it is chaos down there, so let's
Speaker 3: stay in the space and then we'll get to some
Speaker 3: jazz stuff. There just is not a lot of jazz
Speaker 3: stuff to get to tim as you know, so you know, no,
Speaker 3: there's not, so Ad goes down.
Speaker 2: He's lost for weeks.
Speaker 3: You know, ultimately they lose to Sacramento fans as you
Speaker 3: reference fire Nico signs, they're thrown out of the building.
Speaker 3: The early returns of what Dallason and Nico Harrison decided
Speaker 3: to do certainly not on their side so far. And
Speaker 3: I would imagine the natives are quite restless. That it's
Speaker 3: fair to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Natives are short and there the restless.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just the whole thing's crazy. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the Mavericks approach as far as handling the backlash, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: you when you made his trade, you knew there was
Speaker 1: going to be massive backlash. You just traded one of
Speaker 1: the most popular players in the NBA, the most talented
Speaker 1: player in franchise history. And that's a mouthful because there
Speaker 1: was a dude who scored thirty one thousand, somewhat points
Speaker 1: in the Mavericks uniform. He's twenty five years old entering
Speaker 1: what should be his prime I understand the concerns whatever,
Speaker 1: but you traded that guy's fresh off of finals appearance, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: there was going to be massive backlash, and you know,
Speaker 1: to try to silence that backlash within the walls of
Speaker 1: your arena. I just I don't understand it. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: like I appreciate things like Patrick Dumont, the you know,
Speaker 1: the new owner of the team, given an interview to
Speaker 1: the Dallas Forny News and blasting Luca because it confirmed
Speaker 1: a lot of my reporting about how the franchise felt.
Speaker 1: But it's not exactly the smoothest pr move that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. So some of this stuff
Speaker 1: has just been completely baffling. I'm like, listen, if people
Speaker 1: are yelling fire Nico or you know, wearing T shirts
Speaker 1: or whatever, like okay, that's part of the that comes
Speaker 1: along with it. If you're throwing those people out of
Speaker 1: the arena, that it becomes this international story and that's
Speaker 1: exactly where we're sitting right now.
Speaker 2: You know, and you're well aware of this.
Speaker 3: There are certain ownership groups that are just so tone
Speaker 3: deaf and they have no pulse. And oftentimes a lot
Speaker 3: of these uber wealthy people and obviously Dadilson and Dumont
Speaker 3: family are not wanting when it comes to revenue streams.
Speaker 3: So you know, when you exist in that type of
Speaker 3: wealthy you know, stratosphere, you're more or less numb to
Speaker 3: the way the world works. And oftentimes we see these
Speaker 3: owners take over teams and because they have been successful
Speaker 3: in other endeavors, they believe they can transfer that skill
Speaker 3: set to running pro teams, and that's not how it works.
Speaker 3: Even Mark Cuban had to learn, and he will tell
Speaker 3: you himself, he had to learn that his success and
Speaker 3: other endeavors was not going to translate. So we had
Speaker 3: to adjust and he became a great owner. Help me
Speaker 3: understand though, the Adelson Dumont family, what is their deal?
Speaker 3: You and I talked about the conspiracy theory going around
Speaker 3: that this was some sort of play for them to
Speaker 3: move the team to Vegas, which never resonated with me.
Speaker 3: And you're reporting is what we leaned on here on
Speaker 3: the show, and ultimately your reporting proved to be correct.
Speaker 3: But tell me about this new ownership group and sort
Speaker 3: of what the reaction has been now that they're kind
Speaker 3: of for the first time at least from my prism
Speaker 3: being a little bit more front facing.
Speaker 1: Well, Miry Madilson, I don't know if she's aware of
Speaker 1: whether there's feathers in a basketball or there, so like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's really she'll show up every once in
Speaker 1: a while. Not involved at all. Is Patrick Dumont, her
Speaker 1: son in law the Las Vegas Sans COO. He's the
Speaker 1: guy who is in charge, and he's been you know,
Speaker 1: Cuban kind of indicated. They'd almost be like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to see absentee owners, but like show up every
Speaker 1: once in a blue moon type of thing. Patrick Dumont
Speaker 1: has been pretty present. He was I was a little
Speaker 1: bit surprised he came last night fat court side, you know,
Speaker 1: was a little bit late coming on out after halftime
Speaker 1: and got loudly booed as he made his way to
Speaker 1: his court side seat along with the Dallas mayor, just
Speaker 1: trying to show, look what a Dallas mayor. We're staying Dallas,
Speaker 1: chill out on that crazy conspiracy theory. But he's in charge.
Speaker 1: But he knows what he doesn't know, and you know
Speaker 1: he knows he doesn't know how to run an NBA
Speaker 1: front office, and so he has put full trust in
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison, and Nico said, this is why I want
Speaker 1: to make this move, you know, basically Nico essentially I'm
Speaker 1: paraphrasing here. Know what Nico told him is, Hey, I
Speaker 1: don't believe in Luca Dontis. I don't think we can
Speaker 1: create a good culture with Luca. I don't think we
Speaker 1: can count on this guy. I don't think we can
Speaker 1: rely on this guy. I think a supermax investment in
Speaker 1: this guy, with his habits and with his approach, could
Speaker 1: absolutely blow up in our face. I know Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: I just trust Anthony Davis. I believe in Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: We should build a deal around Luca for a d
Speaker 1: And Patrick Dumont listened all that and gave the approval,
Speaker 1: and Mark Cuban got like a five minutes before it
Speaker 1: was done. Me like, there's a verbal handshake already, heads
Speaker 1: up on the thing. Zero percent chances trade happens under
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban. Frankly, he's crushed about it, but he's still
Speaker 1: sitting there, you know, sitting courtside, turn around, telling Sans
Speaker 1: fans to sit the bleep down and shut the bleep
Speaker 1: up when they're chanting fire Nico during free throws mass
Speaker 1: free throws. But this is Nico Harrison's team. Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: does have significant same personnel. I'm a little bit skeptical
Speaker 1: on j Kids' claims that he had no idea this
Speaker 1: is happening until the eleventh hours he put it. Let's
Speaker 1: just say it like that. But he's letting his basketball
Speaker 1: people run the basketball team, and if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: he's going to have to find some new basketball people.
Speaker 3: Do you think this trade happens if Mark Cuban is
Speaker 3: the majority owner?
Speaker 1: Ah, I just told you there's a zero percent chancel
Speaker 1: would have happened. Not a chance in hell. I mean,
Speaker 1: Cuban was on the record two or three years ago.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked him, that's a good the exact context, but
Speaker 1: basically he said, if he had to choose between his
Speaker 1: his wife and Luca, fine him and is at his
Speaker 1: lawyer's office filed for the force. Like dude, there's Mark
Speaker 1: Cuban's top top priority for his final five and a
Speaker 1: half years as the majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: was Luka Doncic's happiness and that's really what's so about
Speaker 1: just this this shoe or there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that are just crazy about what's happened here, But one
Speaker 1: of the most insane things and the shocking shift, is
Speaker 1: for all of Luca's career, the franchise operated in fear
Speaker 1: almost and sometimes definitely in fear of him eventually having
Speaker 1: reason to want to leave, Like we can't put him
Speaker 1: in a position where it would be a rational decision
Speaker 1: to request a trade. Luca was never a guy who's
Speaker 1: looking to leave. You say what you want. The guy's
Speaker 1: got his flaws. He is a very loyal person. See
Speaker 1: him playing for the Slovenian national team every single Summer
Speaker 1: World Cup, euro Basket, Olympic qualify and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, if, for example, when they had that
Speaker 1: season where they made the blockbuster deal after bungling the
Speaker 1: Brunson deal and then they have to tank, if they
Speaker 1: follow that up last season and fall flat on their
Speaker 1: face or even get Boodoo in the first round, he
Speaker 1: might have been in a situation as I go, okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is rough. They went to the finals
Speaker 1: to turn around after six years of prioritizing his happiness
Speaker 1: and trying to convince him that you can be a
Speaker 1: contender right here in Dallas, of succeeding and building that
Speaker 1: contender around him going to the finals, and then before
Speaker 1: the next trade deadline, you dump him in the middle
Speaker 1: of a Saturday night. Absolutely shocking. Somebody should write a
Speaker 1: book on it. Oh, I've written a book. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go, pre order that bad Boy. Actually I've written
Speaker 1: most of the book because I I've got about halfway
Speaker 1: more of the final chapter that bad Boys do Fridays.
Speaker 1: So probably let me go. Man, I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of worse to do.
Speaker 2: I'll let you go in a moment.
Speaker 3: But you definitely should look at Tim's Twitter out of
Speaker 3: ESBN underscore McMahon and the link to the book is
Speaker 3: there the Wonder Boy Luka Doncic in the Curse of Greatness?
Speaker 2: Did you have to rewrite these?
Speaker 1: Now? Hold on, don't read the comments, just look at
Speaker 1: the just look at the posts.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no, no, quick man, I am not on
Speaker 3: I'm not on Tim McMahon's level, but I'm on a
Speaker 3: level enough to you have several fan bases try to
Speaker 3: get me canceled here in state. So I may don't
Speaker 3: read the comments guy as well, So I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I went down to the Jazz Warriors game last week
Speaker 3: with the intent to talk to people about this specifically,
Speaker 3: and I had three front office people all say that
Speaker 3: something is up that we don't know, and they all said,
Speaker 3: we'll probably find out like Summer League, when we're all together,
Speaker 3: when people are actually talking off the record. Like I said,
Speaker 3: we have relied on your reporting for our content surrounding
Speaker 3: this deal on this station. But do you believe that
Speaker 3: there is some sort of situation out there that nobody
Speaker 3: knows about as of now, that at some point will
Speaker 3: come to light.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think there's some like shocking scandal
Speaker 1: or anything that's coming down the pike here. Like you know,
Speaker 1: could there be stuff coming out regarding Luca's abbots or
Speaker 1: you know, his lack of care for conditioning. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: could be whatever, But like that's stuff that people know.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. This is Niko Harrison, who is
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant's right hand man. Nike, you for years and
Speaker 1: years and years saying I know the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that you know that can be a multi time championship player.
Speaker 1: I know the kind of guy you can build a
Speaker 1: culture around. Luca is not that kind of guy. Now
Speaker 1: you know what lukea is is to dude to just
Speaker 1: average thirty four to ten and nine and went to
Speaker 1: the finals. Well, Luca is is a five time first
Speaker 1: Team All NBA selection at the age of twenty five.
Speaker 1: So it's not all the concerns I get. I could
Speaker 1: not have given up on him at the age of
Speaker 1: twenty five. I just could not have done it. But
Speaker 1: Nico Harrison decided that he couldn't keep a eye on him.
Speaker 1: That's that's what happened here, all right.
Speaker 3: Before I said you loose, we did see the debut
Speaker 3: of Elijah Harkless last night.
Speaker 2: Everybody was tuned in for that.
Speaker 3: Obviously, obviously we get a little first look of Luca
Speaker 3: and Lebron and I think it was windhorse this morning
Speaker 3: on first take that said, Unfortunately it came against an
Speaker 3: unserious basketball team, as the Jazz are not trying to compete.
Speaker 3: But when this and I'm talking about this year only,
Speaker 3: when when they start to get their rhythm, what do
Speaker 3: you think best case is for the Lakers with these
Speaker 3: two this season?
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, they're gonna sign Alex Flynn. But like if
Speaker 1: Alex Lyndn's your answer, Center, It's not a great answer.
Speaker 1: You know, I could see them being a second round
Speaker 1: type of team. I don't. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: have to get a legitimate, you know, Lucas style of big,
Speaker 1: that rim running, lob threat, rebound and rim protecting type
Speaker 1: of big in there, which they tried with Mark Williams
Speaker 1: and then they flunk them on the physical I honestly,
Speaker 1: I can't see them beating Oklahoma City. I can't see
Speaker 1: them beating Denver. Those are the two teams I just
Speaker 1: can't see them beating. And so I think the ceiling
Speaker 1: for the Lakers this year's probably in the second round.
Speaker 3: All right, get back to writing, Tim, do you is
Speaker 3: there a place you want to send our listeners to
Speaker 3: get the book or is the Twitter page the spot
Speaker 3: to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just hit the Twitter page just pinned up top.
Speaker 1: You can read the comments if you want to hit.
Speaker 1: In the presence of children.
Speaker 3: All right, man, thanks for the time you get Okay,
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