BREAKING 🚨 Dallas Mavericks planning to fire GM Nico Harrison 👀 Stephen A. REACTS 🔥 | First Take

Breaking news out of the NBA. The Mavericks are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at 10:00 a.m. Central time. In a meeting today, sources tell Sham Shirania and Tim McMahon. Essay, your reaction to that news. Um, sorry for Nico Harrison, uh, good dude, but at the end of the day, you traded Luca Donic. And if you’re trading Luca Donic, you can’t be three and eight on the season with Anthony Davis already missing three games and having minimal impact to the success of the Dallas Mavericks while Kyrie Irving is out injured while Luca Donuch is averaging 40 is insane and is a leading candidate along with Victor Wimbeana for league MVP honors. The trade is looking even more and more disastrous right now because the Cooper flag is going to be special, right? And you know that Kyrie comes back, they’ll look differently. But I said this on many occasions, it’s going to come down to how Anthony Davis looks. Anthony Davis can’t be ordinary. He has to be spectacular because if he’s spectacular, averaging 28 and 12, if he did something like that, like he was capable of and he was available, then Dallas would be winning more games and you wouldn’t be in this situation. But with him out, you know, not that he’s out right now, but with him missing games or not only averaging 20 a game, being relatively average, and Luca Donic playing all world, looking fantastic and phenomenal. That is really, really an indictment. 26 years of age, a superstar in Tinsel Town, balling out, and he was your guy and never wanted to leave, and you pushed him out the door. It’s unforgivable in a lot of people’s eyes and that’s why this Nico Harrison is gone. And a lot of people looked at Cooper Flight. They were excited about him coming to Dallas. However, like you said, when you take a look at how Luca is playing, I mean, it doesn’t feel like the trade-off was worth it. Well, not only that, Luca went in the off season, got himself in condition, looks better, got in the gym, right? You couldn’t do that. You couldn’t get him to do that if you were Dallas. See, these are all things that come with the job. Nobody wants to hear that excuse. Even out of shape, Luca was still giving you 30 a night. Now he’s in shape, giving you 40 a night. Lakers are winning basketball games without LeBron James. Yeah. Without LeBron James, they’re winning basketball games with Luca carrying them and that could have been Dallas. You’re damn right they’re making this move. Yeah. Anthony D. Damn right. And and by the way, let’s not absorb the ownership because if Mark Cuban were there, this that would have never happened. Mark Cuban, I just interviewed him the other day. I’ve interviewed him several times since Luca has been traded. Mark Cuban has repeatedly stated he would have never traded Luca Donic. That was not a move that he endorsed. So Mav’s ownership is more responsible for this than anyone for letting it happen cuz they didn’t want to pay him that supermax contract. But in the end, owners don’t fire themselves. They find somebody to blame and Nico Harrison went all in. He knew that it could eventually cost him and unfortunately it has. Yeah, Anthony Davis, he’s missed six straight games with that calf injury. They definitely need him back, but now we see a lot of moving parts down there in Dallas. All right.

Stephen A. Smith joins Amina Smith on First Take to react to breaking news from Shams Charania that the Dallas Mavericks are expected to fire GM Nico Harrison.

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22 comments

  4. ATTENTION 🎺
    "the trade of lucic doncic"
    was THE GREATEST CRIMINAL ACT of all time; it was far more than the worst trade all time in any sport)!!!(; it was A CRIMINAL ACT)!!!(
    …. …. …the owners first mark cuban saying these owners have given my approval of for bringing in money through casino gambling; the Las Vegas owners say…" if dallas and texas does not give us our casino, we will destroy the dallas mavericks"….. and now they can move them to las vegas; end of the treachery and insolence of a wolve in sheep's clothing in mark cuban and a ruthless owner in miriam anderson through a patrick dumont; nico Harrison was forced into this trade scenario, but really orchestrated it out of greed for pockets lined in los angelas "side money bribes", set for life, as "dumb dallas mavericks fans" istead of BOYCOTTING)!!!( the mavericks 🏀 basketball organization, received a false number one draft pick as consolation as the corrupt NBA smoked screened this CRIMANAL TRADE OF "luka doncic"; for a false hope of a future Glory; the ignorant dallas mavericks fans not knowing that the elite sold the dallas mavericks to the los angelas Lakers as a "FODDER TEAM".
    please mark cuban and miriam anderson we are through with you and your version of "the casino royale
    dallas mavericks!"
    """what happens in vegas stays in vegas""""
    the end to "REAL TRUTH" )!!!(

  8. I know nobody will ever believe this, but I predicted this would happen right after the Luca trade. I’m probably the only person in the world that saw this coming, but I’m just that much of a basketball genius.

  10. The Mav's are done, AD and Kyrie are injured their whole career, It is not only stats, luka make the players aroud him better to at that MAV's players that shined last year, where are they now?

    The trade was disrepectful, ontop of the trade they throw a lot of dirt on Luka that just took them to the final

    I hope Nico will never find a job in the NBA any more, I am now a Lakers Fan, I moved with Luka, could not remain as a MAV's fan with this disgusting management

  11. The trade shouldn't have happened. However the owners had the power to veto the trade even though Nico presented the idea but they didn't. Seems like Kidd was on board too. It's interesting that Nico is the only fall guy for this. Yes I know nothing can happen to the owners BUT I don't understand how it made sense trading away a prime player for an often injured player. The owners are at fault too. Remember when Belichick wanted Brady gone. Kraft knew better than to let that happen and it didn't until Brady himself wanted to leave.

  20. If I was Luka I would be pissed because Stephen A has been getting his last name wrong for 8 years. That is a pet peeve of mine when people don't take the time to pronounce your last name correctly for an extended amount of time.

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