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Speaker 5: Yeah, we want some audio at you real quick here. Okay,
Speaker 5: this is from ten months ago, which is a little strange, like,
Speaker 5: why would you do that? But I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 5: Now I was tipped off to this, I believe from
Speaker 5: the article in The Athletic about Nico Harrison, the Mavericks GM,
Speaker 5: and he's at the Sloan Conference, which is like you know,
Speaker 5: analytics and just sports insider people will go to the
Speaker 5: Sloan Conference every year.
Speaker 3: It's nerd of palooz. Yeah, it's nerd stuff. It's comic
Speaker 3: Con for sports.
Speaker 2: It's where Bill Simmons famously dubbed Darryl Moury as Nerd Elvis.
Speaker 5: Well, Darryl Moury plays a big fun In fact, he'll
Speaker 5: be the first voice you here because on stage is
Speaker 5: at the time Mavericks assistant Jim Dennis Lindsay Darryl Mory,
Speaker 5: who is the GM of the seventy six ers.
Speaker 3: Still ye, Moury is still with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 5: I believe you have Nico Harrison, another guy, and there's
Speaker 5: a narrator another guy, so you'll you'll hear Nico you
Speaker 5: kind of. But this is just two clips I wanted
Speaker 5: to play for you again. This is last April. Okay,
Speaker 5: this is ten months ago.
Speaker 3: And this was before the run to the finals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would mention another key stakeholder that's probably.
Speaker 3: By the way, the thing that they're doing, the presentation
Speaker 3: they're doing is like.
Speaker 5: Negotiations with NBA general managers, what trade negotiations and signing
Speaker 5: free agents and all that stuff. Right, They're just having
Speaker 5: thirty minutes or an hour just talking about that stuff.
Speaker 6: I would mention another key stakeholder that's probably developed in
Speaker 6: the last ten to fifteen years in the NBA is
Speaker 6: the key people around the best players. That could be
Speaker 6: a workout guy, that could be a health guy, that
Speaker 6: could be a nutritionist. Those people also are very key
Speaker 6: influencers around the best player. It becomes a very complex space.
Speaker 6: Nico probably knows this is the best so given your
Speaker 6: background of all the manage all the key influencers.
Speaker 7: Honestly, it really depends who's the squeaky will at the time,
Speaker 7: and I think it rotates, it changes. It's not always
Speaker 7: the star player, it's not always the owner, it's not
Speaker 7: always the coach, but it's going to be each one
Speaker 7: of those in different periods of time. So it's really
Speaker 7: like understanding where your organization's at and who's really the
Speaker 7: squeaky will, and then who can you kind of calm
Speaker 7: down get to well and then who if you can't
Speaker 7: calm him down, then maybe you have to do something.
Speaker 3: What do you have to do?
Speaker 7: You have to.
Speaker 6: I thought you were to figure out how to separate
Speaker 6: him from the best players.
Speaker 7: I got you, well that too, Yeah, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 7: high risk though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we now know that.
Speaker 5: Uh, in this context, the proverbial squeaky wheel was Luca, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's amazing to me.
Speaker 3: It is, it is amazing.
Speaker 2: But I will say that I feel like he's talking
Speaker 2: about a lot of squeaky wheels. And I kind of
Speaker 2: think that last part when he said remove him, because
Speaker 2: I'm basing it on what Daryl Morey said. I think
Speaker 2: he's talking about the people that are making the person
Speaker 2: be the squeaky wheel.
Speaker 3: And I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2: Things changed dramatically when Porzingis came in. Not not in
Speaker 2: a bad way, but suddenly there was two new dudes
Speaker 2: that were just with the team suddenly needed to be
Speaker 2: on the It's just yeah, that's what it was. Okay,
Speaker 2: everything changes now Porzingis is here and these two guys
Speaker 2: are always here. Uh, we're gonna have to change, you know.
Speaker 2: It's just for certain players, they're gonna have that. And
Speaker 2: so I think, like he talked about it, that squeaky
Speaker 2: Will changing, but that thing where he said you might
Speaker 2: have to figure out what he say move on or
Speaker 2: trade or what he says you to trade him.
Speaker 7: So it's not always the owner, it's not always the coach,
Speaker 7: but it's gonna be each one of those in different
Speaker 7: periods of time. So it's really like understanding where your
Speaker 7: organization's at and who's really the squeaky will, and then
Speaker 7: who can you kind of calm down, get to neutral,
Speaker 7: and then who if you can't calm him down, then
Speaker 7: maybe you have to do something.
Speaker 3: What do you have to do?
Speaker 7: You might have to make it?
Speaker 5: Oh I trade Daryl Morey asking him what do you
Speaker 5: have to do?
Speaker 3: You might have to make a trade.
Speaker 1: Is he talking about the players around the superstar or
Speaker 1: the we go back a little further.
Speaker 3: I want to hear that whole context.
Speaker 6: I would mention another key stakeholder that's probably developed in
Speaker 6: the last ten to fifteen years in the NBA is
Speaker 6: the key people around the best players that could be
Speaker 6: a workout guy, that could be a health guy, that
Speaker 6: could be a nutritionist. Those people also are very key
Speaker 6: influencers around the best player. It becomes a very complex space.
Speaker 6: Nico probably knows this is the best so given your
Speaker 6: background of all the manage all the key influencers.
Speaker 7: Honestly, it really depends who's the squeaky will at the time,
Speaker 7: and I think it rotates, it changes. It's not always
Speaker 7: the star player, it's not always the owner, it's not
Speaker 7: always the coach. But it's going to be each one
Speaker 7: of those in different periods of time.
Speaker 3: So I mean, these has got to get him back
Speaker 3: to neutral.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, he said owner, star player, and coach, so
Speaker 1: that is exactly what he's talking about in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also keep in mind that I think when
Speaker 2: Darryl Morey handed him the ball, he handed him the
Speaker 2: ball with his work at Nike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's that's what he That's what he meant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't mean, he didn't mean your current organization.
Speaker 2: He then, hey, man, you deal with all these guys
Speaker 2: that are hard to deal with when you.
Speaker 3: Were one of the guys that could be making this week.
Speaker 5: Well, and this is my example, used k the KP thing,
Speaker 5: but I'm the Patriots are the example to me, the
Speaker 5: biggest example this is the same situation, it's way different.
Speaker 5: But like Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's big fallout is
Speaker 5: there he goes, but it's Tom Brady's TB twelve guy
Speaker 5: that was getting too comfortable and Belichick locked him out
Speaker 5: of Foxboro Stadium. Okay, like because he was petty and
Speaker 5: didn't know did know how to handle people. But oh,
Speaker 5: here's the second part. Uh So that was interesting too.
Speaker 7: With the Kyrie trade, a lot of people they didn't
Speaker 7: really know Kyrie and they knew what happened in Brooklyn,
Speaker 7: and his reputation wasn't that great. But I knew who
Speaker 7: the person was. I knew his character, I knew his core.
Speaker 7: I've known that since high school. I knew his family,
Speaker 7: so I was willing to take that risk. The public
Speaker 7: perception of him wasn't actually who he was, so I
Speaker 7: was to take that gamble because I knew his core.
Speaker 6: So if everybody else sees it this way, but you
Speaker 6: happen to have information that makes it a little bit
Speaker 6: more valuable.
Speaker 7: That I could either be the smart one or I
Speaker 7: could be the dumb one. But in this case, you know,
Speaker 7: when you know somebody and you know their core, then
Speaker 7: you're willing to take that risk of that gamble, but
Speaker 7: you know enough information.
Speaker 3: That's insane. Now listen to that. That's a little more
Speaker 3: revelatory than the first one. To me, I think so too.
Speaker 5: And I also thought he thought are thinks that I
Speaker 5: feel that at Luca's core he won't change.
Speaker 2: And also, let me just say too, I think he's
Speaker 2: also I mean, I think you could apply that to
Speaker 2: what he knows.
Speaker 3: About Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: Right, You know, that's one of the things that's just
Speaker 2: like so difficult for people to come to grips with
Speaker 2: and why there's so much conspiracy stuff. It's because they
Speaker 2: don't agree with Nico's assessment and so it's got to
Speaker 2: be something else. And then everyone's looking at going okay,
Speaker 2: but the value is not right, Like you of the trade,
Speaker 2: You don't trade a twenty five year old for a
Speaker 2: thirty one year old. You just don't do that when
Speaker 2: they're sort of on the same stratosphere, even if you
Speaker 2: want to put them on the same stretosphere. If you
Speaker 2: told me that Anthony Davis was a notch below Luca,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't argue with you.
Speaker 3: But they're both.
Speaker 2: Best in the world type players, both in the top ten,
Speaker 2: top fifteen players when healthy. So that's really interesting because
Speaker 2: I do think a big part of this had to
Speaker 2: do with what you're saying. But I think an even
Speaker 2: bigger part of this than anything is, like the degree
Speaker 2: to which he values Anthony Davis is probably han a
Speaker 2: higher degree than anyone else on the planet that's not
Speaker 2: named Davis.
Speaker 1: Right, Like, look, we can sit here and look at
Speaker 1: the Lucas situation all day. None of us would have
Speaker 1: made the trade. None of us feel like they got
Speaker 1: the just return.
Speaker 3: But if I.
Speaker 1: Don't speak for you, guys, I feel that way, but
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. But if you are, if you
Speaker 1: really read between the lines here, you know the perception
Speaker 1: of Luca and his belief on who Luca is at
Speaker 1: his core are those things are different. Like the the
Speaker 1: fan base is not aware of any problems they had
Speaker 1: managing Luca or getting him to be in shape or
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. But it sounds like when he
Speaker 1: dealt with Polinka, he also was very candid and like
Speaker 1: put all his cards on the table and like showed
Speaker 1: him all Luca's flaws. So like all of us were like, dude,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if those flaws are real at least,
Speaker 1: don't tell the guy you're negotiating with.
Speaker 3: Go rob that guy blind. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a great point, and I also
Speaker 2: think it's interesting. I'll make this super quick with then
Speaker 2: the context of Darryl Mory now, the guy that we
Speaker 2: always used to compare Luca Too with James Harden, because
Speaker 2: Houston tried so hard to get him to hey, man,
Speaker 2: change your ways, change your ways. But dude, Darryl Moray
Speaker 2: rode with James Harden everywhere he went and acquired him
Speaker 2: everywhere he went until the very end, and then him
Speaker 2: and James Harden got crossways and now they won't even talk.
Speaker 2: But even though he tried to get him to change,
Speaker 2: he still rode with him until about the age of
Speaker 2: thirty one or thirty two, and then he and then
Speaker 2: he cut bait.
Speaker 3: That's wow, that's really really interesting, really good audio kata.
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Speaker 5: Well, look, dude, you just set the world on fire
Speaker 5: when you got Michael Scott right at number twelve on
Speaker 5: that list.
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