Speaker 1: All right, it's the ben at Skin Show ninety seven
Speaker 1: point one, the Eagle. A day of freaking out across Mavland.
Speaker 1: Actually that's been every day since February second. It just
Speaker 1: really came to a head. The Mavericks season ended Friday
Speaker 1: night in rather humiliating fashion. Is Memphis whooked that ass?
Speaker 1: And then Memphis got fed to Oklahoma City and lost
Speaker 1: by fifty Did anybody one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being the Mavericks having to play them
Speaker 1: at noon on Sunday after after flying to Sacramento, flying
Speaker 1: back to Memphis, flying Oklahoma City. Oh, that would have
Speaker 1: been ugly. But the season is over. Nico Harrison had
Speaker 1: a press conference at one o'clock today on the heels
Speaker 1: of three I'd say two explosive articles. One from Tim Cato,
Speaker 1: but the one from Tim McMahon was really explosive, and
Speaker 1: if you haven't read it, Tim wrote in ESPN that
Speaker 1: a big division happened between the Mavericks and Dirt Noovinski
Speaker 1: after Nico unceremoniously relieved Casey Smith, longtime Gold medal winning
Speaker 1: head of the medical staff for the Mavericks, who had
Speaker 1: been a longtime friend of Dirk Novitski of Jason Kidd
Speaker 1: had Luca's trust and he, according to Tim McMahon, fired
Speaker 1: him right after Casey went to Dirk's Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: event and did it over zoom while Casey was caring
Speaker 1: for his gravely ill mother. This was according to Tim McMahon.
Speaker 1: So then this comes out today, Niko does the exit
Speaker 1: interview today. The local media has access. I was sitting
Speaker 1: there in the room, I had access. I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: I just watched it all unfold. But Katie has been
Speaker 1: playing a bunch of clips from it.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Dorothy Gentry is a reporter here and then
Speaker 3: nice lady, right, I love Doring. I did not expect
Speaker 3: this question come from her though. I thought this is
Speaker 3: pretty heavy.
Speaker 1: The fans are upset, almost hate.
Speaker 2: I have to say the word are you dealing with that?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 3: And then two?
Speaker 1: Do you understand how they feel?
Speaker 3: I think they want to know that you feel their
Speaker 3: pain about losing Luca.
Speaker 4: What can you state to them?
Speaker 2: Well, when you have twenty thousand people in this stadium
Speaker 2: chatting fire and NiCl you you really feel it. I
Speaker 2: mean it's I use the word awesome, but not in
Speaker 2: a positive way like I have to stop it here.
Speaker 3: I've never used the word awesome in a not positive way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think by definition he's right about the word,
Speaker 4: but the way we use it in our popular vernacular.
Speaker 3: I just went and took a bunch of wiz. I
Speaker 3: took a whiz and a bunch of blood came out awesome.
Speaker 3: It's not a good thing.
Speaker 1: I think, like if he were to say awe inspiring,
Speaker 1: but even that wouldn't connect. I think the word he
Speaker 1: would probably rather use as it was overwhelming disapproving.
Speaker 4: The disapproval is deafening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you have twenty thousand people in this stadium
Speaker 2: chatting fire and NiCl, you you really feel it. I
Speaker 2: mean it's I use the word awesome, but not in
Speaker 2: a positive way, like you can really feel how they feel. So, yes,
Speaker 2: I feel them. How am I doing? I'm good? You know,
Speaker 2: I said this last week. God's got me covered. I
Speaker 2: have an amazing family and an amazing support group to get
Speaker 2: through it. But no, I absolutely feel it. But I'm
Speaker 2: also you know, my job is to make decisions that
Speaker 2: I feel in the best interest of this organization, and
Speaker 2: I got to stand by the decision and some of
Speaker 2: them we're gonna be unpopular, and this was clearly one
Speaker 2: that's unpopular.
Speaker 3: Not gonna win anyone over. But that's not the goal
Speaker 3: of his press conference today, probably right.
Speaker 1: I think he has zero intent to quote unquote win
Speaker 1: anybody over. Oh no, I don't think he thinks that
Speaker 1: way at all.
Speaker 4: No, it's he that's not what his that's not how
Speaker 4: he rolls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about the memes from the game Friday night now,
Speaker 3: because we can talk about that, the no emotion things
Speaker 3: get into that at the five o'clock hour. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: the scene where Anthony Davis gets hurt. ESPN's got a
Speaker 3: camera trained on him, all that, the side eye, he
Speaker 3: side eye. I mean it's like he just he's he
Speaker 3: wants to be a villain. I mean, he's done a
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to be a villain.
Speaker 3: I just think it's either everything that's happened is that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has become the biggest sports villain in the
Speaker 4: history of df W, I think. And dude, the guy, yeah,
Speaker 4: and and the guy who's probably happiest about all of
Speaker 4: it is Jerry Jones.
Speaker 3: Dude, have a great year.
Speaker 4: I mean, dude, he was on the hot seat and
Speaker 4: then Nico says, I'll take that for you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's dude. And also we're three days over
Speaker 3: the draft and no one's talking about that.
Speaker 4: Has anybody Has anybody talked to Dumont about what's going
Speaker 4: to happen in twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine and
Speaker 4: thirty or whatever when they don't have any of their
Speaker 4: first round picks. Has anybody even broke that down to
Speaker 4: him at all? This is we built this team around Luca,
Speaker 4: and then everyone here is because they fit well with Luca.
Speaker 4: Then we traded Luca, got six years older, got a
Speaker 4: player who's always hurt, did not get full return on
Speaker 4: the trade, and don't have any of our picks after
Speaker 4: this little three year window ends.
Speaker 3: You know, let's talk.
Speaker 4: Let's pick it up later, all right, we'll get back
Speaker 4: into a little we'll get back into a little bit later.
Speaker 4: Coming up next though, movie talk. Let's talk about the
Speaker 4: movie that had everybody buzzing this weekend. That's coming up
Speaker 4: next on The Benicin Show.