Dallas Faces a Crossroads: Can Building Around Cooper Flagg Ignite a Championship Dream?
Nico Harrison is out as the Dallas Mavericks general manager — something that needed to happen.
Not just because he traded away Luka Doncic, a top-five player in the world entering his prime — although it’s hard to imagine a more fireable offense for a GM. More than that, Harrison’s firing had to happen now to stop everything that was to come. He had staked everything on his belief that trading away Doncic was what was best for the franchise and had made the Mavericks contenders right now, behind Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving, two championship players, but ones who are now older and with injury histories. Sure, Dallas now had No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg, but Harrison was all-in on the short term and winning now with these Mavericks, not thinking long-term. Every move he would have made was going to be about the two- to three-year championship window he said the team had. He would have extended Anthony Davis this summer. It would have boxed the team in.


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