{"id":134845,"date":"2025-04-16T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=134845"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:01:43","slug":"mavericks-nice-harrison-press-conference-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/16\/mavericks-nice-harrison-press-conference-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Harrison Draws Ire of Past Mavericks Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

The debris of the trade that sent\u00a0<\/span>Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0via one phone call by\u00a0<\/span>Dallas Mavericks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0GM Nico Harrison continues to rain down, and suffice it to say that dust has certainly not settled. Will it ever settle? Judging by the current state of affairs surrounding the ongoing story, it’s unlikely. In speaking of this story, it continued its next chapter after it was revealed that\u00a0<\/span>Harrison held a private, closed-door press conference<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with Dallas local media members. It was an odd development, and because of it, Harrison again is in the bullseye of his many, many critics. This time, a former Mavericks player<\/span>, Chandler Parsons<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0weighed in and was rather blunt in his criticisms <\/span>levied<\/span> at Harrison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nico Harrison Draws Ire of Past Mavericks Player<\/h2>\n

Former Dallas Mavericks star Chandler Parsons heavily criticizes Nico Harrison’s closed-door media session<\/h3>\n

Earlier this week on Tuesday, Harrison huddled privately with local media members, away from cameras so as not to be visually recorded, and the Luka trade was a central topic of discussion.\u00a0<\/span>ESPN’s Brian Windhorst<\/span><\/a> speculates that Harrison did not want cameras present because he didn’t want his comments about not regretting the trade to be publicly out there permanently. Windhorst also reported on\u00a0<\/span>First Take<\/span><\/em>\u00a0that Harrison eventually allowed tape recorders in the room following stiff negotiations with some invited media members. Still, as a GM, Harrison’s reasoning doesn’t look good at all, as Windhorst also backed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While Windhorst admitted to being baffled by Harrison’s press conference, he was not the only one.\u00a0<\/span>Parsons also shared his thoughts on FanDuel’s\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Run It Back\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/em>podcast<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>He did not mince words when saying his piece on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely cowardly what he did yesterday,\u201d <\/em>said Parsons. \u201cThe fact that he doesn\u2019t allow microphones or cameras is the most shocking thing I think I\u2019ve ever seen in the media and sports. This is ridiculous.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou just want to feel that respect and that trust. And in this trade, in this deal, again, I understand where he was coming from, the way he got it done, had to be in secrecy, but this is just no class. This is bad business. You don\u2019t handle it like this, especially Luka Doncic, who\u2019s done everything for the city. He\u2019s been there longer than you\u2019ve been. This is just no respect. And I think it\u2019s a bad play. And I think optics-wise, this whole sit-down yesterday, this little kumbaya meeting yesterday was weird.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Things keep getting worse<\/h3>\n

The corner Harrison has backed into has to feel tighter the more days go by. Not to mention, the public image factor continues to take hits. It’s not a good scenario in Dallas right now, especially regarding the Mavericks organization. How this affects Harrison down the road is something only time will tell. As he stated earlier this week, Harrison plans on finishing his contract, which is for three more years. That said, it wouldn’t be shocking if his time comes up well before.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are set to play the Sacramento Kings in the second play-in match of the Western Conference on Wednesday night. The Kings are favored, and if they pull out the win at home, the Mavericks will go home. Not winning a single play-in game will make things even more tense. Meanwhile, Luka is resting up for his first playoff series as a member of the Lakers. For now, at least on the basketball court, one party is enjoying life after the trade. We won’t find out until next season where Dallas sits.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debris of the trade that sent\u00a0Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u00a0to the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0via one phone call by\u00a0Dallas Mavericks\u00a0GM Nico Harrison continues to rain down, and suffice it to say that dust has certainly not settled. Will it ever settle? Judging by the current state of affairs surrounding the ongoing story, it’s unlikely. In speaking of this story, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":134847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,30,62],"tags":[160,1133],"class_list":["post-134845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-mavericks","category-nba","tag-chandler-parsons","tag-luka-doncic"],"modified_by":"Aaron J Zacharias","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134870,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134845\/revisions\/134870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}