PJ Washington said, “I thank Nico for what he did for me.” He texted Nico Harrison and thanked him once he found out he was fired.
reddit | Nov. 14, 2025
Tim MacMahon: One thing I will tell you: Cuban didn’t help himself when he sold the majority share of the franchise, cashed a multi-billion-dollar check, and then told everybody who would listen: “Hey, I’m still in charge of basketball operations. These people? It’s just a real estate play for them. They don’t know what they’re doing with basketball—I do. I’m still in charge. Don’t worry.” That was not part of the deal. I don’t know if he was trying to speak it into existence or what.
I don’t know how well you know Mark Cuban, but I don’t think he’d do very well on polygraph tests on a regular basis. He tends to be a little bit full of—you know—excrement.
YouTube | Nov. 14, 2025
CM: Let me just say two things that I’ve heard from
people in Dallas about this Nico situation. One, among the reasons they believe that Patrick Dumont and ownership has to make a change is that they have lost the community. They’ve lost the fan base. And that matters generally speaking, but this is a team that’s working on an arena deal here. They’re trying to get something done for a new building and you have to have goodwill with the community and with the fan base to get something like that done if you want local funding.
Sports Illustrated | Nov. 13, 2025
Nico Harrison is "in good spirits" and planning to spend time with his wife and daughters after being fired 11 games into his fourth season as the Dallas Mavericks' general manager, NBA insider Chris Haynes said Tuesday. "He's in good spirits, man. He's going to take some time to be with himself and his family and just get away from everything," Haynes said on NBA TV. "It's been a tough situation.
Bleacher Report | Nov. 13, 2025
Some have wondered how much differently things would have gone on the Doncic front had Mark Cuban not sold the team to the Dumont family shortly prior, and recently, ESPN NBA insider Tim McMahon took to the Hoop Collective podcast to shed light on how Cuban could be stepping back into a bigger role within the organization now.
“It went from zero to something. Exactly what something is, I’m not sure. He’s no longer the world’s richest mascot only,” said McMahon. “I’ll say this, he walked off the floor with Patrick Dumont after that loss to the Milwaukee Bucks Monday night,” he added.
Clutch Points | Nov. 13, 2025
As for what’s next, I’m told that
Mark Cuban, the Mavs’ minority owner who was exiled from basketball operations by Harrison, is back at the table. I’m also told that radical roster changes have already been discussed by Dallas’s new brain trust. Big changes could be coming to Big D.
Sports Illustrated | Nov. 13, 2025
The day after the Mavericks lost their final game to the Golden state Warriors in the 2022 Western Conference Finals, I met with Nico to formally quit my position with the Mavericks, and to have an exit interview. There, I warned Nico about some of the developments I had witnessed during his first year in office: In particular, that he did not have a good grasp of who he should trust and who, among those under him, were simply kissing ass.
Nico had drowned out many of the voices who could provide perspective, including those of the department where I was an analyst. Instead of being willing to hear critical input, Nico had empowered people who had little basketball knowledge — and these tended to be people, such as attorneys, who had worked their way up the ladder thanks to Nico himself. These people stroked Nico’s ego at every turn. Their unwillingness to disagree created an echo chamber. The Luka trade doesn’t happen if Nico’s ego isn’t inflated with every interaction inside the Mavericks front office.
Marc Stein's Substack | Nov. 12, 2025
