When Mark Cuban offered the Dallas Mavericks, there was a said expectation that he would proceed to run basketball operations “forevermore.” By the point the Mavericks reached the Finals final June, it was clear that Cuban not was in cost the best way he had anticipated with Nico Harrison reporting on to new proprietor Patrick Dumont.
“It is not an entire lot completely different than proper earlier than I offered the crew,” Cuban mentioned. “Nico was doing just about the whole lot and I’d give him my ideas and my suggestions — identical to I do now.
Then he added: “You are proper — I am not there making day-to-day selections. That is all Nico. That is simply the best way it is developed. Actually … is it precisely the best way I anticipated it to be? No. However we’re successful and issues are going nicely. I am high quality with it.”
Cuban employed Harrison in 2021 to switch Donnie Nelson.
“It has been up and down,” Cuban mentioned of adjusting to his new place within the Mavericks’ hierarchy. “I’ve had moments of each — occasions the place I used to be like, ‘OK, that is what we have to do, however I am not the boss.’ After which there have been different occasions the place I am like: ‘I am glad I am not the boss.’ “
He added: “The one time I really feel any remorse is when the NBA pisses me off. Perhaps it might be completely different if we have been shedding and issues weren’t going nicely, however issues are going nicely. It is nothing particular to the Mavs. I can not go into NBA conferences anymore and provides them shit for being petty.”
