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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, let me put it to you this way.
New ownership shows up at the office and you're the
you're the general manager, and you're making sure that He says,
I want a spreadsheet as to what we're going to
pay our players, and what are roster is going to
look like with the current roster, and what moves we
could potentially make over the next X amount of years,
(00:22):
and how much of that's going to be on the
salary cap? And are we going to have to pay
luxury tax the first ap for the second apron? And
I need that project on my desk in three weeks.
And so you get all your bean counters together, and
you get all your stuff together, and you come up
with a spreadsheet and it says, Luca dodgets one hundred
and eighty seven million dollars this year, he's making thirty
(00:42):
five million dollars. What just thought a number? And then
you project twenty five twenty six he's going to make
seventy million, and twenty six twenty seven he's going to
make seventy four million, and then he's gonna put eight
the next year it's going to be a little bit
more than that. Pretty soon he's making eighty million dollars
a year, and you're the owner, and now you're reviewing
your spreadsheets with your accountants because they're certainly different than
(01:04):
the ones that Mark Cuban had, and you're trying to
figure out, okay, are we at this luck and trying
to explain to a new ownership group what the salary
cap is. And he comes back to you and says,
you know this datchitch guy, why is he playing this year? Well,
he's injured. He got hurt last year and hasn't really recovered.
Basketball players get hurt. Well, what is he going to
play again? Well, we don't know. Well, we played forty
(01:25):
seven games and he's only played twenty two of them.
I don't know if this is a really good a
good deal, Yes, sir, I understand, but this is our
most important player. This is the guy that people actually
come pay to see. Well, he's not really playing that much.
What's his injury situation? And then Nico Harrison may be
a fan of the fact that he helps fill the seats,
but he may not be a fan of the fact
(01:47):
that he kind of lows on defense half the season
and that doesn't look like he's in good shape. Although
he may be in good enough shape for him and
his body, and the pros and cons are discussed between
the GM and the owner, and the owner says, you know,
I just don't really feel comfortable paying a guy eighty
million dollars a year three or four years down the road.
(02:08):
See if there's anybody out there that wants him and
what we could get with for him and keep it
on the lowdown. So he goes to the one person
in the world that he can trust, and that's Rob
Polinko with the Lakers. Because he doesn't know how many
gms he's going to be able to go out without leaking.
He could probably go to the Spurts because they don't
tell anybody anything. They're they're the best in the world
at keeping secrets and diverting who they think you're going
(02:30):
to trade for a draft, for it to the last minute,
get the other guy. And that's a compliment to them.
And there's a few other teams that are able to
do that as well. But maybe he calls Rob polink
and they say, well, you know, we're trying to do
the same thing with Anthony Davis. You know, every time
the sun rises, we don't know whether he's going to
play or not. So they start talking about that, Well,
maybe we'll get this deal done. I'll get back to you,
(02:51):
And then the meeting happens again and the owner says
to the GM, I think we should make this trade.
Let's say the GM is a one thousand percent adamant about
not doing it. You know, mister Addison, I'm sorry, but
I don't think we should do this. Our fans are
going to be upset. This is not what the this.
You're a new owner in town, you're the You've just
(03:12):
rid into town on your white horse. Everybody wants it
satus quo. And you sit there and argue with your
owner for two hours, and the owner finally says he goes,
or you go, and then we'll get rid of him anyway,
and we'll hire a GM that's willing to trade him.
Even if you publicly come out and say the reason
I'm getting that that you're getting fired is because you
(03:32):
wouldn't riff. You refuse to trade Luka Doncic. Then the
story's out. We don't really care. We're going to find
a dance partner to get rid of Luka Doncic. And
this I think comes down to the fact that ownership
group did not want to pay him. And here's something
else that I wish they would do, and if I'm
right about this, but owners won't do it because billionaires
(03:54):
don't like to don't like to face the facts and
the and the mistakes in this situation. But why don't
they come out and hold a news conference or release
the statement to the fans, to all of our diehard
Bavericks fans, We're sorry for the Luka Dacich trade, but
it was a bus decision that we had to think
that we think we had to make as we get
(04:16):
this team prepared to be a contender in the years ahead.
We could not afford with our current status to pay
him the money that was going to be demanding of
him once the Supermax contract was up. Quit blaming Nico Harrison.
He did what we told him to do, and that's
what the ownership group should do. I guarantee you they
won't because that would put the They like the fact
(04:38):
that they can have a bad guy and it's not them,
because they're the ones that are going to go to
the Dallas Country Club or wherever else they hang out
and hobnob with the other rich people. That live in
Dallas and talk to sponsors and all that and try
to talk him off the LEDs. Yeah, yeah, my GM
went rogue, but we thought it was a good idea
to listen, no trade of this magnitude is happening, and
(05:00):
lesting ownership signs off on it, and they did.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All that. Being said, Andy, if you're the GM, then
at that point, if you think like how you were saying,
even if he gets fired or whatever, he'll find another job,
then you tell him say, all right, fine, I'm not
going to be the dumb GM that decides to trade
your franchise perennial all time talent player just because you
(05:26):
a money hungry casino owner that has more money than God.
You don't want to pay the potential of three hundred
and fifty million dollars to a twenty five twenty six
year old, but yet you want to jack up and
pay a thirty two year old who is five six
(05:46):
years older two hundred plus million dollars. Go ahead, I'll
see you on the way out. Kiss me where the
sun don't shine, because I'm not doing it well.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
If you're in financial he's set and I don't know
what Nico Harrison's financial records are he worked Nike, He's
financially well. Listen, let me let me explain something everybody thinks. Well, know,
if I'm making let's say you're making seventy five grand
a year, I haven't made. If I made, if I
made one hundred and fifty, guess what happens when you
make one hundred and fifty. You spend like you have
one hundred and fifty. It would be save the other
(06:17):
seventy five. It would be as if the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Agent for one Eldrick Tiger Woods decided to say, you
know what, Tiger's always hurt. I don't know if I
want to represent the greatest golfer of all time anymore. Tiger,
you suck see you. I'm sorry. He's still the needle,
regardless of if he's playing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But but if and if Tiger Woods told his manager
do x y, and he did, Tiger Woods pull pulled
the biggest uh the biggest thing ever and used his
manager as the scapegoat. And it happened in twenty eleven
when Steve Williams was cutting for him, and he showed
up at the US Open and as he lands a
(06:58):
midweek at the US Open he gets a text from Tiger,
I've heard I can't play. Well, they get word of
this that Tiger can't play. Adam Scott gets word that
he can't play his caddy can't come. So as Adam
Scott asked Tiger, or ask Steve Williams, hey, would you
mind catting for me? I hear your guys out, So
he calls Tiger personally. He gets Tiger on his cell
(07:21):
phone and goes, Tiger, I see that you're not coming.
Got your text. But Adam Scott wants me to caddy
for him because his caddy's sick or out of town
or wife's expecting or whatever it was. Do you have
a problem with me catting for him? And he says no,
that's fine, go ahead, won't be a problem. Well, the
next day he tells his manager to get in touch
(07:41):
with Steve Williams and say, yeah, I kind of have
a problem with that. I don't think he should. Well
he's already told Adam Scott he would, and so that's Tiger. Yeah,
And so Tiger fires Steve Williams because he caddied for
Adam Scott when Tiger wasn't playing, and that was the
end of their So if if you're Nico Harris and
you're one of thirty two general managers in or thirty
(08:03):
general managers in the NBA, and the owner of your
team comes and says, make this trade or good luck
finding another job, because I'll make sure you don't, and
you don't want to do it, and you're you're making
eight hundred grand a year one point five million or
whatever Nico Harrison makes, it's you're not going to take
a chance that you're going to be unemployed, and you're
(08:24):
going to do what the boss tells you to do now,
and the boss in this case told him to get
rid of get rid of it now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
At that point, I'm going to TMZ and I'm writing
a book of why the owners of the Mavericks are
the stupidest owners in the world. And I'm the GM
that didn't trade Luka Doncic because I'm not the.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Only way the only way you get around that is
to find somebody that will sit out an anonymous tweak
to the world that the Mavericks are thinking about trading
Luka Doncic. But you better have a burner phone because
if it's traced back to you, you're gone too.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now the other Again, the other issue is because it
was only with one team, nobody knew about it. It's
it was, isn't it basically because they already said that.
Him and Rob Polinka like months ago, we're having coffee
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Because if you tell every general manager in the league, hey,
what do you got for Luca, then it's going to
get leaked. Two people can keep a secret, but you
can't tell a third because somebody's gonna tell it, is
gonna tattle.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That casino owner is making right now, just made a
million dollars right now, just made another million dollars. You're
telling me you can't afford a freaking donches. I'm sorry,
you don't deserve to be an owner. Go stick to
being a casino person.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's fine, But I want you to quit blaming Nico
Harrison for the trade when he only did what he
was told you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is this skapegoat?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
He will, yes, the scapgoat Lee Harvey Oswald's the patsy too,
if you want to believe those theories. Every but there
has to be a fall guy. Niko's the fall guy.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's fight.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But the owner made this decision, and if you're one
of the eighteen thousand. That was booing Nico Harrison last night.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Fire hair.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You should have been you should have been saying that
to the ownership, sell the team, please back to mart.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They said that too, They said that to all so late.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, you was. You should not be allowed in my
in my coffee shop ever again if you're the owner
of the MAVs, all right back in a moment. This
is the and the everage show on the ticket
All right, let me put it to you this way.
New ownership shows up at the office and you're the
you're the general manager, and you're making sure that He says,
I want a spreadsheet as to what we're going to
pay our players, and what are roster is going to
look like with the current roster, and what moves we
could potentially make over the next X amount of years,
(00:22):
and how much of that's going to be on the
salary cap? And are we going to have to pay
luxury tax the first ap for the second apron? And
I need that project on my desk in three weeks.
And so you get all your bean counters together, and
you get all your stuff together, and you come up
with a spreadsheet and it says, Luca dodgets one hundred
and eighty seven million dollars this year, he's making thirty
(00:42):
five million dollars. What just thought a number? And then
you project twenty five twenty six he's going to make
seventy million, and twenty six twenty seven he's going to
make seventy four million, and then he's gonna put eight
the next year it's going to be a little bit
more than that. Pretty soon he's making eighty million dollars
a year, and you're the owner, and now you're reviewing
your spreadsheets with your accountants because they're certainly different than
(01:04):
the ones that Mark Cuban had, and you're trying to
figure out, okay, are we at this luck and trying
to explain to a new ownership group what the salary
cap is. And he comes back to you and says,
you know this datchitch guy, why is he playing this year? Well,
he's injured. He got hurt last year and hasn't really recovered.
Basketball players get hurt. Well, what is he going to
play again? Well, we don't know. Well, we played forty
(01:25):
seven games and he's only played twenty two of them.
I don't know if this is a really good a
good deal, Yes, sir, I understand, but this is our
most important player. This is the guy that people actually
come pay to see. Well, he's not really playing that much.
What's his injury situation? And then Nico Harrison may be
a fan of the fact that he helps fill the seats,
but he may not be a fan of the fact
(01:47):
that he kind of lows on defense half the season
and that doesn't look like he's in good shape. Although
he may be in good enough shape for him and
his body, and the pros and cons are discussed between
the GM and the owner, and the owner says, you know,
I just don't really feel comfortable paying a guy eighty
million dollars a year three or four years down the road.
(02:08):
See if there's anybody out there that wants him and
what we could get with for him and keep it
on the lowdown. So he goes to the one person
in the world that he can trust, and that's Rob
Polinko with the Lakers. Because he doesn't know how many
gms he's going to be able to go out without leaking.
He could probably go to the Spurts because they don't
tell anybody anything. They're they're the best in the world
at keeping secrets and diverting who they think you're going
(02:30):
to trade for a draft, for it to the last minute,
get the other guy. And that's a compliment to them.
And there's a few other teams that are able to
do that as well. But maybe he calls Rob polink
and they say, well, you know, we're trying to do
the same thing with Anthony Davis. You know, every time
the sun rises, we don't know whether he's going to
play or not. So they start talking about that, Well,
maybe we'll get this deal done. I'll get back to you,
(02:51):
And then the meeting happens again and the owner says
to the GM, I think we should make this trade.
Let's say the GM is a one thousand percent adamant about
not doing it. You know, mister Addison, I'm sorry, but
I don't think we should do this. Our fans are
going to be upset. This is not what the this.
You're a new owner in town, you're the You've just
(03:12):
rid into town on your white horse. Everybody wants it
satus quo. And you sit there and argue with your
owner for two hours, and the owner finally says he goes,
or you go, and then we'll get rid of him anyway,
and we'll hire a GM that's willing to trade him.
Even if you publicly come out and say the reason
I'm getting that that you're getting fired is because you
(03:32):
wouldn't riff. You refuse to trade Luka Doncic. Then the
story's out. We don't really care. We're going to find
a dance partner to get rid of Luka Doncic. And
this I think comes down to the fact that ownership
group did not want to pay him. And here's something
else that I wish they would do, and if I'm
right about this, but owners won't do it because billionaires
(03:54):
don't like to don't like to face the facts and
the and the mistakes in this situation. But why don't
they come out and hold a news conference or release
the statement to the fans, to all of our diehard
Bavericks fans, We're sorry for the Luka Dacich trade, but
it was a bus decision that we had to think
that we think we had to make as we get
(04:16):
this team prepared to be a contender in the years ahead.
We could not afford with our current status to pay
him the money that was going to be demanding of
him once the Supermax contract was up. Quit blaming Nico Harrison.
He did what we told him to do, and that's
what the ownership group should do. I guarantee you they
won't because that would put the They like the fact
(04:38):
that they can have a bad guy and it's not them,
because they're the ones that are going to go to
the Dallas Country Club or wherever else they hang out
and hobnob with the other rich people. That live in
Dallas and talk to sponsors and all that and try
to talk him off the LEDs. Yeah, yeah, my GM
went rogue, but we thought it was a good idea
to listen, no trade of this magnitude is happening, and
(05:00):
lesting ownership signs off on it, and they did.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
All that. Being said, Andy, if you're the GM, then
at that point, if you think like how you were saying,
even if he gets fired or whatever, he'll find another job,
then you tell him say, all right, fine, I'm not
going to be the dumb GM that decides to trade
your franchise perennial all time talent player just because you
(05:26):
a money hungry casino owner that has more money than God.
You don't want to pay the potential of three hundred
and fifty million dollars to a twenty five twenty six
year old, but yet you want to jack up and
pay a thirty two year old who is five six
(05:46):
years older two hundred plus million dollars. Go ahead, I'll
see you on the way out. Kiss me where the
sun don't shine, because I'm not doing it well.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
If you're in financial he's set and I don't know
what Nico Harrison's financial records are he worked Nike, He's
financially well. Listen, let me let me explain something everybody thinks. Well, know,
if I'm making let's say you're making seventy five grand
a year, I haven't made. If I made, if I
made one hundred and fifty, guess what happens when you
make one hundred and fifty. You spend like you have
one hundred and fifty. It would be save the other
(06:17):
seventy five. It would be as if the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Agent for one Eldrick Tiger Woods decided to say, you
know what, Tiger's always hurt. I don't know if I
want to represent the greatest golfer of all time anymore. Tiger,
you suck see you. I'm sorry. He's still the needle,
regardless of if he's playing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But but if and if Tiger Woods told his manager
do x y, and he did, Tiger Woods pull pulled
the biggest uh the biggest thing ever and used his
manager as the scapegoat. And it happened in twenty eleven
when Steve Williams was cutting for him, and he showed
up at the US Open and as he lands a
(06:58):
midweek at the US Open he gets a text from Tiger,
I've heard I can't play. Well, they get word of
this that Tiger can't play. Adam Scott gets word that
he can't play his caddy can't come. So as Adam
Scott asked Tiger, or ask Steve Williams, hey, would you
mind catting for me? I hear your guys out, So
he calls Tiger personally. He gets Tiger on his cell
(07:21):
phone and goes, Tiger, I see that you're not coming.
Got your text. But Adam Scott wants me to caddy
for him because his caddy's sick or out of town
or wife's expecting or whatever it was. Do you have
a problem with me catting for him? And he says no,
that's fine, go ahead, won't be a problem. Well, the
next day he tells his manager to get in touch
(07:41):
with Steve Williams and say, yeah, I kind of have
a problem with that. I don't think he should. Well
he's already told Adam Scott he would, and so that's Tiger. Yeah,
And so Tiger fires Steve Williams because he caddied for
Adam Scott when Tiger wasn't playing, and that was the
end of their So if if you're Nico Harris and
you're one of thirty two general managers in or thirty
(08:03):
general managers in the NBA, and the owner of your
team comes and says, make this trade or good luck
finding another job, because I'll make sure you don't, and
you don't want to do it, and you're you're making
eight hundred grand a year one point five million or
whatever Nico Harrison makes, it's you're not going to take
a chance that you're going to be unemployed, and you're
(08:24):
going to do what the boss tells you to do now,
and the boss in this case told him to get
rid of get rid of it now.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
At that point, I'm going to TMZ and I'm writing
a book of why the owners of the Mavericks are
the stupidest owners in the world. And I'm the GM
that didn't trade Luka Doncic because I'm not the.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Only way the only way you get around that is
to find somebody that will sit out an anonymous tweak
to the world that the Mavericks are thinking about trading
Luka Doncic. But you better have a burner phone because
if it's traced back to you, you're gone too.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Now the other Again, the other issue is because it
was only with one team, nobody knew about it. It's
it was, isn't it basically because they already said that.
Him and Rob Polinka like months ago, we're having coffee
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Because if you tell every general manager in the league, hey,
what do you got for Luca, then it's going to
get leaked. Two people can keep a secret, but you
can't tell a third because somebody's gonna tell it, is
gonna tattle.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That casino owner is making right now, just made a
million dollars right now, just made another million dollars. You're
telling me you can't afford a freaking donches. I'm sorry,
you don't deserve to be an owner. Go stick to
being a casino person.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's fine, But I want you to quit blaming Nico
Harrison for the trade when he only did what he
was told you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Is this skapegoat?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
He will, yes, the scapgoat Lee Harvey Oswald's the patsy too,
if you want to believe those theories. Every but there
has to be a fall guy. Niko's the fall guy.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's fight.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But the owner made this decision, and if you're one
of the eighteen thousand. That was booing Nico Harrison last night.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Fire hair.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You should have been you should have been saying that
to the ownership, sell the team, please back to mart.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
They said that too, They said that to all so late.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, you was. You should not be allowed in my
in my coffee shop ever again if you're the owner
of the MAVs, all right back in a moment. This
is the and the everage show on the ticket
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