Nine months after trading Luka Dončić to the Lakers in perhaps the most ridiculed deal in NBA history, Nico Harrison is now unemployed. The Dallas Mavericks parted ways with him on Tuesday after leaks began springing up about his job security in recent days.

The Mavericks are now expected to work with Anthony Davis and his agent, Rich Paul, over the next few months “as they decide whether to pursue an in-season trade,” according to longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein. However, one Western Conference official told Stein that “Davis will need weeks of sustained good play without injury interruption to convince teams to make representative offers for the 32-year-old closer to the trade deadline when he still has two full seasons left on a three-year, $175 million contract.”

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