{"id":380009,"date":"2025-11-15T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:26:11","slug":"luka-doncic-comments-on-dallas-mavericks-firing-nico-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380009\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic comments on Dallas Mavericks firing Nico Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87213449007-usatsi-26544616-168402560-lowres.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks part ways with general manager Nico Harrison<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have fired GM Nico Harrison less than a year after trading Luka \u2014 Lorenzo Reyes breaks down where Dallas turns next in its rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" data-autotag=\"4d34a300-3059-4ec4-a4d3-4d636ac95816\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/13\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-points-lakers-thunder-stats\/87243385007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered a tough loss on the road<\/a> against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>After the loss, Don\u010di\u0107 was asked to address the firing of former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" data-autotag=\"e6751d65-4a81-4131-973c-176d23467b30\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> general manager Nico Harrison. Don\u010di\u0107 played the first six-plus years of his career in Dallas before he was traded by the team in February.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison was dismissed after the Mavericks&#8217; 3-8 start to the season. He had been heavily criticized since February for his role in sending away the city\u2019s beloved point guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Dallas, the fans and the players will always have a special place in my heart,\u201d Don\u010di\u0107 told reporters during his postgame press conference on Wednesday. \u201cI thought I was going to stay there forever but I didn\u2019t. \u2026 Right now I\u2019m focused on the Lakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRight now I\u2019m just focused on the Lakers. No further comments.\u201d &#8211; Luka Doncic when asked if he could ever see himself playing for Dallas again, now that Nico Harrison was dismissed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJr4xoslGb\">pic.twitter.com\/rJr4xoslGb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten\/status\/1988846666405888263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 was also asked if the dismissal of Harrison had opened the possibility of a potential return to Dallas in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dRight now I\u2019m just focused on the Lakers,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cNo further comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 signed an extension with the Lakers on Aug. 2 that runs through the 2028-29 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire Nico\u201d chants have been pretty common among fans at American Airlines Center during home games since the deal. Fans have been spotted in the crowd at Mavericks home games wearing Lakers jerseys with Doncic\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news \u2014 fast<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks part ways with general manager Nico Harrison The Mavericks have fired GM Nico Harrison less than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4231,1339,276,128691,2451,1596,3139,52369,9401,8604,4230,3141,52368,3365,6650,1260,451,942,50,5847,1268,450,457,950,1457,1451,99667,62,1458,358,6001,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-380009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-gold-rush","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-dallas","15":"tag-dallas-mavericks","16":"tag-doncic","17":"tag-gold","18":"tag-lakers","19":"tag-los","20":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","21":"tag-luka","22":"tag-luka-doncic","23":"tag-mavericks","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-negative","26":"tag-neutral","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-oklahoma","29":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-negative","32":"tag-overall-neutral","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-positive","35":"tag-rush","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-sports-news","38":"tag-texas","39":"tag-thunder","40":"tag-tx","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-united-states-of-america","43":"tag-unitedstates","44":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","45":"tag-us","46":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}