{"id":57337,"date":"2025-11-20T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T06:36:15","slug":"nico-harrison-throws-mark-cuban-under-bus-for-dooming-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/57337\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Harrison throws Mark Cuban under bus for dooming Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Harrison blamed former Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban for losing Jalen Brunson in 2022, according to a new report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mentioned in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47014061\/inside-mavericks-power-struggle-nico-harrison-vs-mark-cuban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">extensive ESPN feature<\/a> about the power struggle between Cuban and Harrison during their tenure working together was the fact that Harrison held Cuban responsible for the departure of the now Knicks star.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37713183\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-113997328.jpg\" alt=\"General manager Nico Harrison of the Dallas Mavericks watching a game.\" class=\"wp-image-37713183\"  \/> Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/11\/sports\/mavericks-fire-nico-harrison-nine-months-after-luka-doncic-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison was fired by the Mavericks <\/a>earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarrison blamed Cuban for what he believed were the Mavs\u2019 biggest personnel mistakes during his tenure, which came in summer 2022: allowing Jalen Brunson to get away in free agency and trading for Christian Wood, a player [Jason] Kidd didn\u2019t want to coach and resented having on the roster. Several members of the coaching staff and front office also faulted Cuban for those moves,\u201d the report stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks reached the Western Conference Finals in 2022. Brunson has gone on to become a superstar in New York, helping lead the Knicks to the Eastern Conference Finals last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brunson has missed the past two games with injury, but is averaging 28 points in 11 games this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harrison is, of course, a controversial figure in Dallas after he was the man in charge when the Mavericks dealt Luka Don\u010dic to the Lakers for a package led by Anthony Davis in one of the most shocking trades in recent pro sports history last season.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010dic is averaging 34.6 points, 9.0 assists and 8.5 rebounds for the Lakers, while Davis is currently out with a calf strain and has played just five games for a Mavericks team that is 4-11 going into a clash with the Knicks on Wednesday night.  \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37713195\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mark-cuban-reacts-second-half-115584809.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Cuban reacting during a basketball game, seated in the stands.\" class=\"wp-image-37713195\"  \/> AP<\/p>\n<p>Cuban had criticized the trade and said in a radio interview in March that he was \u201cof course\u201d upset about the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Mavs are going to trade Luka, that\u2019s one thing. Just get a better deal,\u201d Cuban said. \u201cNo disrespect to Anthony Davis, but I still firmly believe if we had gotten four unprotected No. 1s and Anthony Davis and Max Christie, this would be a different conversation.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Harrison blamed former Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban for losing Jalen Brunson in 2022, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,2582,103,31021,4646,4975,3080,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-57337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-jalen-brunson","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-mark-cuban","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}