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Speaker 1: we you say in moments ago we were talking about
Speaker 1: the people are calling it a secret press conference, which
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's fair. It was a private
Speaker 1: press conference. I mean, it's not a secret. People knew
Speaker 1: it was happening, but you had to be invited. They
Speaker 1: only invited like I think it was twelve members. I
Speaker 1: heard that when I'm not sure the exact number, but
Speaker 1: that's about the size that it was. And I saw
Speaker 1: our Buddy mark Stein of DLLs was on there talking
Speaker 1: about how a horrible way it is to go about
Speaker 1: a press conference, not only yesterday, but what they did
Speaker 1: in Cleveland on that Sunday morning. He was going off,
Speaker 1: and I've never seen Stein go off on anything, and
Speaker 1: I think that speaks volumes as to how emotional all
Speaker 1: of this is and how many missteps from a public
Speaker 1: relations standpoint, the Dallas Maverick seem to keep making. If
Speaker 1: mark Stein is going to speak up like that, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I want to be so careful about this because
Speaker 1: I respect Dirk so much and I don't want to
Speaker 1: speak for him or pretend that I know anything I don't.
Speaker 1: I just what I wanted to bring up is that
Speaker 1: Tim McMahon has been making the rounds and he's been
Speaker 1: talking to a lot of radio shows and podcasts. Obviously
Speaker 1: he was the strawsturing the drink at this press conference thing,
Speaker 1: and he's been going around and talking about an article
Speaker 1: that he's planning to release the minute the mav season
Speaker 1: is over, and a couple of the places where I've
Speaker 1: seen it posted is they've said that Tim McMahon is
Speaker 1: going to talk about how Dirk became at odds with
Speaker 1: the organization. Again, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: what I've seen out there that's coming down the road.
Speaker 1: And so for a MAVs fan, you're looking at, Okay,
Speaker 1: they got rid of Luca and somehow they've alienated Dirk,
Speaker 1: Like what how do I process that? All on the
Speaker 1: night of a plane Like, it's a lot to take in.
Speaker 1: So as a Maps fan, you're like, wait, they lost
Speaker 1: seventy seven, they lost forty one. What is happening like
Speaker 1: as the sky fall. So whatever McMahon is talking about,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to read it the minute it comes out. Yeah. Same.
Speaker 1: But I also think what's been happening is local people,
Speaker 1: MAVs fans have suddenly gone Wait a second, I thought
Speaker 1: McMahon was a Nico Harrison mouthpiece. I thought he was
Speaker 1: tearing down Luca with all these lies, Like wait, what
Speaker 1: Now he's the one asking the tough questions And now
Speaker 1: they're carrying McMahon on their shoulders. And we've been trying
Speaker 1: to say this to anyone who will listen. We've known
Speaker 1: Tim McMahon very well. We worked with him at Hea
Speaker 1: Pien Dallas I almost got in a fistfight with Tim
Speaker 1: McMahon at a basketball court in Miami. He do an
Speaker 1: elbow and he throws elbows. That's the way he plays.
Speaker 1: And I'm soft, and so I would have put that
Speaker 1: on me if that had happened. But he's he's a friend,
Speaker 1: and he is the best at what he does that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my media career. What I mean
Speaker 1: is asking the tough questions. I could be sitting next
Speaker 1: to Rick Carlisle and he could look at me with
Speaker 1: those cold dead shark eyes and stare laser beams through
Speaker 1: my soul and I might wet my pants. McMahon would
Speaker 1: look right at him and tear his ass down. McMahon
Speaker 1: fears no one. McMahon is in no one's pocket. He
Speaker 1: doesn't do anyone's bidding. He just asked the toughest questions
Speaker 1: on Earth. And so if you're a MAVs fan and
Speaker 1: you've been thinking that he had some agenda, was in
Speaker 1: someone's pocket, you're a dumb ass. I think what it
Speaker 1: is as I think people read what they want to
Speaker 1: read with the they read with confirmation bias. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: what Tim does is Tim wants to give you both
Speaker 1: sides of the story. Like again, when I tried talk
Speaker 1: about this, I want to present it as I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have done the trade. I wouldn't have That's not the
Speaker 1: way that I believe about basketball. I've also never run
Speaker 1: a basketball team, so no one is, hey, what kind
Speaker 1: of trades would you make? Right? Like when I was
Speaker 1: younger and more naive and arrogant, I thought I can
Speaker 1: do this. I was wrong. Okay, But my whole point
Speaker 1: is we all have opinions, and that's fine. They can
Speaker 1: be validated however you want to validate it. But people
Speaker 1: read stuff to the degree they want to read it.
Speaker 1: And I think it's probably inaccurate that Luca's this scott
Speaker 1: free angel that's never done anything wrong and evil Nico
Speaker 1: shipped him off. Like, I think that's probably inaccurate. And
Speaker 1: I can say that telling you whatever problems Luca does
Speaker 1: or doesn't have, I wouldn't have traded him. I would
Speaker 1: have gone, Okay, how can I fix this? Because I
Speaker 1: believe that there's certain players in basketball that are so
Speaker 1: uniquely talented you have to figure out how to make
Speaker 1: them work if there are deficiencies. That's the way I
Speaker 1: look at it. Okay, Nico didn't look at it this way,
Speaker 1: and he said this over and over and that press conference,
Speaker 1: and I told you, guys, is when it happened. He
Speaker 1: targeted Anthony Davis. That's who he wanted. So we can
Speaker 1: sit here old and go. He didn't get enough for him,
Speaker 1: not in his mind. In his mind, he can win
Speaker 1: a championship with Anthony Davis because that's what he believes
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is. And he said that, he said it
Speaker 1: over and over. We targeted Anthony Davis. Defense wins championships.
Speaker 1: That's how he believes he's gonna go win a championship.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's right. I'm not saying he's wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's what the man believes. And so the
Speaker 1: reason I'm saying all this in context of Tim McMahon,
Speaker 1: Tim McMahon is gonna write things that if you're think
Speaker 1: Luca's Jesus, you're gonna think Tim McMahon screwing you over.
Speaker 1: He's also gonna write things. And if you're in Nico
Speaker 1: Harrison's family, you think Tim's out to get you because
Speaker 1: he's presenting both sides. And he told Nico that yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's in the transcript, he said, who cares what I think?
Speaker 1: I'm asking trying to get an answer to this question
Speaker 1: on logic. My opinion doesn't matter, like he said that
Speaker 1: to Nico, And that's what I would say on all
Speaker 1: the people that think he's out to get Luca. He
Speaker 1: doesn't think his opinion on Luca matters. He wants to
Speaker 1: give everybody every bit of this story so people can
Speaker 1: try to understand how a twenty five year old generational
Speaker 1: talent is traded in the middle of the night for
Speaker 1: a return that ninety eight percent of the people out
Speaker 1: there perceive is not enough. That's what Tim McMahon's job is,
Speaker 1: and he busts his ass to try to do it.
Speaker 1: He ain't pro Nico, he ain't pro Cuban, he ain't
Speaker 1: pro Luca, he ain't pro Dirk. He's trying to do
Speaker 1: his effin' job. Sorry, we're gonna get back into the
Speaker 1: preview for tonight's game and talk to Little Maps coming
Speaker 1: up at five point thirty, so don't miss that. But
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