Had Mark Cuban remained in charge of the Dallas Mavericks as the majority owner, the Luka Doncic trade would not have happened . Alas, Cuban lost control of the team's basketball operations when he surrendered majority ownership of the team to Patrick Dumont. Dumont then greenlit Nico Harrison's decision to trade Doncic away to the Lakers. Over nine months since making that disastrous trade, Harrison is no longer the Mavericks' general manager — to fans' delight.

Harrison deserves plenty of credit for being one of the loudest voices in the front office when they built the NBA Finals-caliber team around Doncic during the 2023-24 season. But there simply is no recovering from trading away a 26-year-old superstar who's in the middle of his prime for someone with an even more extensiv

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