Fan: “Dumont, thank you for firing Nico!” / Dumont: “You’re welcome!”
NICO WORKED FOR DUMONT. Who do you think green lights trade deals?
DUMONT: “Glad we were finally able to identify the person responsible for this!” š
āI have investigated Nicoā¦and found that I did nothing wrong!ā
Weāre all trying to find the guy who did this
Seriously. He signed off on the trade and then pretended like he had nothing to do with it
He was pretty clear from the moment the trade happened that he signed off on it and made the trade based 100% on Nicoās vision and pushing for it.
In fairness he genuinely thought AD could help them win the championship games ššš
AD was a real effort and defense sort of guy, just like shaq
He’s also an iron man, cut from the same cloth as Greg Oden
I mean if this was a NBA 2k sim it would be a good idea with the injuries off.
But then again it wouldnt have happened in 2k because Luka becomes the goat winning every chip and MVP every year there since he got drafted.
Its different this year, dont play NBA 2k anymore because I dont support shittification of products and monopolies, but from what ive seen Flagg is basically what Luka/Trae/Giannis/Butler were in older 2ks where he gets 8 MVPs and chips every simulation.
I think the issue is that he genuinely doesnt know anything about basketball. Like, I think he trusted Nico’s (ridiculous) opinion that they needed to move on from Luka and that AD was the guy worth pursuing. And I think he was genuinely surprised by the fan backlash - which is why Nico didn’t try to shop Luka; if he did, the fan backlash would have probably gotten Dumont to pull his sign off on the trade
It’s possible he wanted to cut salary, but the other theory is that he just doesn’t know or care about basketball and trusted Nico too much.
Dumont didnāt know shit about basketball, he trusted Nico who was supposed to be the expert.
He was too busy lobbying Trump to attack Iran
He probably knew that Luka was the face of their franchise and his most valuable asset.
Even if you know nothing about basketball, a player like Luka doesnāt get traded without ownership approval.
Not knowing shit about the organization you own is not an excuse bro. Thats a further in indictment. Nico was the only person he was capable of checking with?
People get mad when owners interfere and then they get mad when owners don’t interfere.
I dont recall ever getting upset about owners getting involved, but you can strawman the conversation.
What? This is how every business ever is run. Owners are not subject matter experts and rely on trusted executive to run the show.
Owners dont understand the business and dont understand what product their customers want?
Dont know why youre yapping when I know that how the relationship between an owner and his employee works. That doesn’t mean they are absolved of blowback for picking the wrong employees and making huge mistakes for the organization. He is 100% culpable for the mistake. It sounds like you dont have any clue of how that works.
There was also Kidd, who was probably in on it as well. Only difference is he didn’t get fired.
Kidd’s culpable too, for sure.
You are asking from Dallas fans to have basic level of intelligence
95% of Dallas fans dislike Dumont as well lol, the only excuse he has is being ignorant and trusting the GM (which is usually smart for owners to do)
To be fair, it is a damn good excuse if you don’t know much about the business you are getting into. Business 101 is to get the lay of the land from the people there, and the 2 biggest leads he had were Nico and Kidd, who both wanted Luka out.
He is still a dipshit for a ton of other reasons.
people are so manipulable.
Yeah but they weren’t that hands on and Nico convinced them he knows what he’s doing. There’s a reason they hired Nico and not themself as GMs
Absurd thing to do and then post as a fan
Boot-licking, billionaire simp.
Let’s be fair. Maybe he’s just a big fan of genocide and funding authoritarian rule.
Isn’t that just being an American taxpayer? We dont get a choice hahaha
There’s a difference between being forced to participate in it and actively supporting it
Agreed, mi amigo. Agreed.
do you have a mental disability when did he support a genocide?
Which genocide do you mean
Palestinians or Dallastinians?
These meta glasses are gonna be catching cats off guard for the next little bit
“Fan”
Is that kid sitting next to Dumont the same industry plant that āconvincedā Dumont to fire Nico after a very staged courtside discussion?
The conspiracy theorists on a hot streak
It’s not really a conspiracy theory, that shit was so obviously staged to prop Dumont for everyone with eyes to see
The entire thing was obviously just Crisis Management PR. The entire notion that Nico was the only informed actor in Mavs management and was able to hoodwink neophyte owners while keeping everyone in the dark until heād traded arguably the best player in the history of the franchise is laughable.
Trading Luka is a move so enormous that everyone in the senior front office staff wouldāve been in meetings about it. The back office would be involved because of the impact to the business side to trade away a franchise cornerstone. Thereās absolutely no way the back office business staff didnāt know, or that Finley and Kidd didnāt know, or that Dumont wasnāt making a fully informed decision.
Nico was absolutely the architect. But pinning it 100% on Nico as some rogue actor and paying him to take the heat and walk away is just basic crisis management. As was the heart felt chat with the kid in the Luka jersey who happened to get to court side seats and was available to briefly talk to selected members of the press before promptly disappearing.
Trust me I hate these genocide-supporting family to my core, but do you think he would make his son pose as a fan when there’s hundreds of photos of them together before hand? Come on.
but do you think he would make his son pose as a fan when there’s hundreds of photos of them together before hand?
Of course not, but no one has ever claimed it was his son who approached him that game. I’m not saying the kid in this video was the kid who “explained” him the significance of Luka to the Mavs fans, I’m just saying that whoever it was was a plant
These two sure look like they could be related.
He just looks like his son tbh.
You mean his son?
You gave a fist bump to the guy who backdoorād luka dumbass
He did what?!
You heard him
He diddyn’t believe what he saw
With how he plays defense it’s hardly the first time he’s been backdoor’d
So what?
well i assume this fanās beef with Nico is the luka trade and not giving washed DāLo a multi year deal so its kinda weird to fist bump the guy ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE
Cringe.
Seriously. š¤¢
Also probably thinks Cuban has nothing to do with it.
Crazy that Dumont gets a free pass for his role in everything. Would trade these leeches for Cuban back in a heartbeat
Ehhh Cubes set this whole thing in motion by bringing that snake in. Then he signed off on letting Lukaās people get shown the door over the years. He decided to sell to these idiots. He has blood on his hands as well.
I feel like I remember seeing a lot of headlines with Cuban shitting on traditional NBA owners for it being a good Ole boys club too lol
Guess he didn’t care that much, he sold off to a new member.
Cuban rides the progressive wave but he’s every bit part of the problem in society. No pedestal for him.
For a lot of fans, it ended at “Fire Nico”. But it’s “Fire Nico, sell the team”
Luka trade was just cosmic justice for covering up all SA scandals in that organization
Don’t ask Mark Cuban what happened at the Paris theatre š
Such as? Havenāt heard of thisĀ
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649615551/investigation-into-dallas-mavericks-reveals-sexual-misconduct-over-20-years
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33527472/ex-gm-donnie-nelson-sues-dallas-mavericks-says-was-fired-reporting-sexual-misconduct-team-denies-claim
even if no one clicks the articles yall can read the link LOL
Cosmic justice should only affect the people that deserve it. Not an entire fan base.
Cuban said he would rather divorce his wife than trade Luka. You guys are just collateral youāll be fine. Took us about 12 years to find player of KGs caliber again. Not saying coop or kg on prime Luka level butā¦ never mind damn
Yeah, shit’s bleak. Would’ve killed to live in a reality where we had Luka for 12 years and got to see him win MVP as a Mav.
Dude you legit donāt know how relieved I was that you traded him. That team was so perfect, itās just a lose lose situation.
Lakers donāt have the assets to make a team for Luka, Mavs have about a season before they canāt tank. And itās still a team built for 77
Nico seems like a dickhead but Iāll be damned if he aināt the only one. Being willfully ignorant got them out of criticism for the SA allegations, seems itās working here too
Nico was payed to take the heat. Do people honestly think Nico was just casually allowed to make a trade of this magnitude without getting sign offs from leadership.
People are stupid these days and believe loads of shit
Evidenced by your election results
Huh? Obviously. Everyone knows that Dumont is equally to blame. It’s just that he clearly knows very little about basketball, so people blame him more for his overall ignorance than his decision to sign off on the trade. People just focus on Nico more because he’s the one who initiated the whole thing. Dumont was just suckered into it, which still makes him an idiot but a different kind of idiot.
literally.
Yes, they do judging by the way people hate on a random GM instead of his bosses who let him pull the trigger
This is so dumb. Most owners donāt care or understand basketball. All the evidence points towards Nico being the one who pushed the trade.
This clip is still cringe PR nonsense.
Jerry Reinsdorf could give a hot shit about the Chicago Bulls. But even he knew better than to let Krause bully Jackson out of the team.
GMs can only do as much as the owners allow them to, you’re giving Dallas way too much leeway
Iām not giving them any leeway at all. Iām just pointing out that the most likely explanation is that Nico hated Luka because he was fat and didnāt stay in shape, sold the owner on it and made the trade. The conspiracy theories are silly.
Also Iām not sure what your point about Reinsdorf is. Jackson did end up leaving anyway.
Fuck that fat, stupid, Tommy Boy lookin idiot. Fuck his casinos too. GTFO
Lmao fr fuck all billionaires. This reminds me of all the positive pr that used to be posted on here about balmer before the kawhi investigationĀ
He needs to go too
Nico incompetence belongs in Sacramento
He’d fit right in there, but the fans don’t deserve that. I wouldn’t even wish Nico on Lakers fans, no one deserves that
Wdym? Nico did wonders for Lakers fans
The laugh explained everything. āDumbass I was the one whoās behind the whole thingā
lol guys only smiling bc he pawned all the blame onto Nico lmaošš
Corny ass with meta glasses on
What a punk. He signed off on the trade. Probably put the whole thing in motion
I would have slapped Duuuurmont then dove at Lou Dirtās knees. I am a 99th percentile badass though so not surprised this kid didnāt.
keyboard warrior
Come to my dojo and find out about me kid. I literally typed that out with the tip of my Japanese blue steel samurai sword.
There would’ve been no need for a firing had Dallas not let Nico do that trade in the first place. that whole org is at fault, not just the gm
Nico was just the fall guy. The owner had already been promised the #1 overall pick (Cooper Flagg) by the NBA because 1. There’s no way the owner didn’t okay the trade 2. There’s no way you trade a franchise guy in his prime and you only reach out to the Lakers and none of the other 28 teams.
Wow. Dont know whoās the bigger idiot here.
He is laughing at him for being too stupid to realize he is one of the guys who greenlit the trade
Scapegoated perfectly.
Fuck that pig faced moron
Doofus think the owner didnāt sign off and trading Luka
Okay but heās just as guilty, if not more, than Nico. He was Nicoās boss, employer. He and his team literally signed off and jumped on the trade, theyāve bragged about it before during that one conference where they said they had to make hard decisions. If he wasnāt paying attention then as an owner, he was negligent. Dallas should honestly boo him out of the building.
As if he didnāt approve the trade in the first place lmao. Gross
Mavs got Cooper cause of Nico- yall just donāt appreciate the vision /s
Who is that kid heās always with .
His young ward, Dick. He was orphaned after his parents tragically died in a circus accident.
He also goes by John Blake but his legal name is robin
lol you’re welcome!
I need Lakers fans to go up to him and say “Dumont, thank you for trading Luka.”
Dumont really looks like a stereotypical Disney/cartoon villain.
Dude should fire himself
Dort cameo at the end, fck that dude.
Hook line and sinker
Is there a prerequisite to being a billionaire that you have to have to have a huge head but it somehow still looks small on your weirdly wide body?
Istg all these mfs look the same to me.
I’ll never understand how rich people are fat. If I was rich I’d hire 3 people to feed me the perfect food to build my muscle while melting fat like a light saber would melt butter, and 2 more people to slap the shit out of any sugar I even think about eating
this is staged by Patrick Dumont right?
Now sell the team
Gee I wonder who gave the green light for the Luka and Grimes trades š¤
One year later, fans still pretending that Nico acted alone or that he duped billionaires. Once again, the new owners didnāt want to pay Luka. They didnāt care. They didnāt want him