Nico Harrison has made some high-visibility trades and acquisitions since becoming the Dallas Mavericks GM in 2021. When you’re attempting to build a quality team that can position itself for a title, bold and conspicuous operations are generally the necessary occurrences that fans want to see. And the last few years have seen more of those occurrences than at any previous period in Mavericks team history.

Yes, but… Nico Harrison’s ability to engage and execute on those high-profile personnel maneuvers, it must be noted in a footnote to an asterisk, would not have been possible had he not inherited a Mavericks team already possessing Slovenian sensation Luka Doncic on its roster. If playing the role of GM has been something of a game for this white-collared, crackerjack salesman, the uniq

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