In the wake the firing of now former Dallas Mavericks’ general manager Nico Harrison, Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi have been tapped to run the team’s basketball operations on an interim basis. ESPN’s Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon were the first to report the interim replacements late Tuesday morning on X, formerly Twitter, before the team announced the move later in the morning.

Harrison stayed in his seat for what became nine excruciating months after being fleeced in a trade for one of the greatest basketball talents on planet earth in Luka Dončić for nickels on the dollar to Rob Pelinka and the Los Angeles Lakers. Though it may have felt like a long time to Mavs fans, nine months is actually a relatively short span of time, given the long-term view a general manager has to take w

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