November 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Mavericks finally firing GM Nico Harrison, how much of the blame for the Luka Doncic trade does Mavs owner Patrick Dumont deserve, if the Lakers should send the Mavericks a Thank You Note, and much more!
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Watch out for the wrecking Ball. Welcome in the beginning
of our number one It's the Ben Malor Show podcast.
We are together on this Wednesday, the twelfth day of November.
A major whacking in the world of sports as the
NBA says bye bye to one of the most notorious
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figures in the front office of that sport. What does
the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the Maverick fanbase
who've been calling for it after the Luca trade nine
months ago? Also, how much blame for the Luca Donzik
trade goes to the Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont? How much
does he deserve for backing Harrison's Luca blunder? Also, should
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the Lakers send the Mavericks a thank you note for
the Luka Doncic trade? Now that Nico Harrison has been
decommissioned as the executive in Dallas, we'll talk about all
that and more. Don't forget a new episode of Benny
Versus the Penny will be available today on the Benny
Vspenny YouTube channels, So you're gonna want to watch that.
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Handicapping the Thursday game. Little appetizer for you as the
NFL weekend kicks off tomorrow. That'll be up later today,
Benny Vspenny. But let's take a look back the Nico
Harrison Mallard monologue from our number one Here.
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it's gonna start out in the NBA. That's right. So
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the wings of change. You can almost hear them blowing
those winds of change in the NBA. They're actually howling.
They're not just blowing their howling the winds of change.
And so I assume you've heard by now don't bear
the lead. I didn't bear the lead, but my god,
So if you didn't see this, maybe not. The Dallas
mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck have cranked
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up the old ray Charles hit hit the Road Jack
or in this case, hit the road Nico, and they
have said bye bye to Nico Harrison nine months It's
like they gave birth nine months after he gave a
donation of luka doncic to the charity in Los Angeles,
the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in
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La So that move coming the day after the day
after the Mavrec owner, someone named Patrick Dumont, who was
in the right place at the right time. Family money
he believed married into. Anyway, he attended the the lost,
the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
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that game, fans again doing the chanting.
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Fire harny go, fireny go.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Just like that, a familiar chant ever since Harrison did
the thing that everyone shook their head at and said,
oh my god, what are we doing? He went, He
went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that is
a good jumping off points. So let us discuss the question.
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I think the most interesting part of this is what
does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the mav
Res fan base. So on this one, I've got commercial
airline pilot eBay and President Obama, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
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make some tex mex which is, I'm not as good
as the traditional American Mexican food, but it's fine text Mexas,
okay whatever, All right.
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So a my.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Word to answer the question, what does the firing of
Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
therapeutic obviously, right, healing, wounds. You know, like a dog
will come up to you if you have a cut
on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
licking of the wound is what this is. Here, We're
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talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned.
The fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
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They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
sure enough the day of reckoning has a And make
no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self made man.
He was self made man. He became because of the
moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas. Congratulations Nico,
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way to go, buddy. Now he does have some friends
in the media. I've seen a bunch of people trying
to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all on him,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's not just
the Luca tree. There's other stuff. Involved in this. Yeah,
the Luca trad was not all him, but there's other
layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
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But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
you know that kind of thing. It was louder. He
provided Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front
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office malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the
right word there. He took a team that, granted it
was a bit of a fluke run, but they had
been in the NBA Finals Dallas against the Celtics, and
he said, you know what, I don't like that. Eh,
eh no, I'm not gonna do that. And so they're
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in the NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and
he's let's turn this into the NBA's version of a
staled economy. Okay, fine, will vaporize anything good that ever
happened while I was the executive in Dallas. Check that box.
And as the saying goes, as the saying goes there,
you can be a commercial airline pilot, one of the
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great pilots. You can have thousands of thousands of hours
in the sky and land every single plane, do a
tremendous job on time pilot. However, if you crash one
of those planes, they're not talking about all the planes
that you landed, you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway,
you're remembered for something else. But Nico did the thing
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you can't do at the time. You can't do it,
and everyone knows that you're supposed to build on a
championship team, build up an empire in that era. You
don't go in there and torch it. You don't do
that and gutting whatever was there there was not there
there at that particular point. And so the Luca things
won part of it, obviously the biggest part of it.
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But he also fired some popular people behind the scenes
support staff with the Mavericks. There was a story that
has been well publicized about a long time staffer for
the Mavericks who was in the training staff that got
let go. Loyal people, loyal foot soldiers for the Dallas
Mavericks who got let go. You can't treat people like
that and expect that the basketball gods are going to
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bless you. So this was a bit of a karmic correction,
as our astrology insider Andrea would say. And I know
there's a cosmic event going on right now, but they
sent Nico Harrison straight to the hoops. Who's goal is
what they did. They're finally some peace in Dallas now,
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Page two, continuing the theme here, continuing the theme. So
the the other question that's on the tip of my
tongue here, how much blame for the Luka Donzik trade
does the Mavericks owner, this guy Patrick Dumont, how much
does he deserve backing Nico Harrison in the Luca Boner,
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the blunder, the blooper, however you want to call it,
whatever b word, Blunder, blooper, boner, all good words, all
good descriptive words. They all work. So on the Malard
scale of blame, the Malar scale of blame, the owner
gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison gets forty percent. And
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here's why, all right, the owner always has final edit.
It's like when you make a movie, you hire the
greatest people to make the movie. You can possibly make
but ultimately there's one person that has the final edit,
final cut, and that's the person that decides what's actually
in the movie and what's not in the movie. And
so they could have, as ownership should have, would have
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hit the kill switch on the Luca trade, could have
stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again, this was
not just a rogue GM running around in the dark.
You can trade a lot of players without ownership signing off,
and you cannot trade the face of the franchise. You're
not gonna be able to do that. So Dumont, if
you look at it, he either rubbers stamped the trade
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and said, okay, mazatav I support this. He encouraged it,
but that's bad also, or he was just asleep at
the switch. What else is there? Is there anything else?
Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he might have lit
the match. He might have lit the match there. But
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Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner of the Mavericks there,
he's the one that owned the warehouse. So you know,
I have no skin in the game. I don't and
you know we're on in Dallas and we you know,
I got a few people that are contributors. I know
a lot of people listening, but they very rarely call in.
And I wouldn't call in right now if as a
Dallas sportsman either, because of how pathetic things are. But
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that said, like the vision I had for this, this
trade insurance, fraud, insurance. You know what I'm saying. No,
you feel me on that insurance. Let me explain. So
you hear those insurance scams, It's like the Mavericks just
torched their own warehouse to collect an insurance payout. Like, eh, yeah,
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imagine in the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of
the Mavericks and Niko standing side by side with matching
cans of unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell
the smoke that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no,
how did this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you
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lit the match? Dummy, Yeah, you're the one that did that.
So this was not a basketball decision. It was basketball arson,
is what it was. And they burned down the mansion
that Luca was living in for the insurance payout, and
now they're sifting through the rubble and the ashes, and
it's like then they have the hoodspot to say the
owders like, oh, you know, we regret, we regret this.
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Oh really, well, isn't that convenient you regret it? Okay,
So you don't accidentally trade a player like you just don't.
You don't trade a player of that ilk that does
not happen, and so you don't trade them for a
brittle bag of bones, which is what you did. Who's
left legs have the shelf life of cottage cheese. You
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did that. You're the ones that took that bounty back,
and so listen. It's intentional negligence, is what it is.
And after months of the rhetoric being from the maverage
will Nico, we trust in Nico, we trust the rhetoric, suddenly,
oh you know that was a mistake. I really screwed
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that one up man. Bad job by us. Yeah, no kidding,
no kidding, pal My God. Now, visionist history for sure,
considering what's been going on, not a full year, but
close enough, close enough has happened in February. Now we're
in mid mid November.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
even shop Luke like that's the part. It's one thing
as well. You shouldn't trade them, Yeah, shouldn't trade them
if you're gonna trade him. Okay, there's ways to do
this right there. There are layers this as well. There
are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
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You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
what can we what can we get for this I
they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here,
I'm gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
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seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors, the Knicks,
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the Celtics, teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
and misdemeanors for good old Nico there and Nico Harrison.
If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
and basketball treason, basketball treason, hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
been as good as that trade would have been if
they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
Thanks for asking. It was so bad that you've got
conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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movie Major League they tanked. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
and they did this on purpose. They want to move
the team to Sin City, lost wages Nevada there, and
it's it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me
if that was somewhere in the decision making process. It
would not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying
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to get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some
bureaucracy involved in that as I understand it, And so
cash is always the king, and those bright neon lights
and lost wages Nevada. You've got this new toy, the
billionaire's toy here. And so the Mavericks listen, they can
fire Nico Harrison. They fire Nico Harrison. However, you can't
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wash off the stain. You ever had an accident with
oil and you get oil on your clothes and you
can't get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is
worse than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on
his watch and the owner signed off on it. But
man alive, all right? Now, last word, we continue in
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depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So
question should let's go like this, So should the Lakers
send the Mavericks a thank you note for the leucadontic
trade now that Nico Harrison has been whacked given the guillotine.
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So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
So just hand deliver it to Nico Harrison and give
him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
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gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
And lifetime pass. How about this. If he ever wants
to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
Ico can fly on the team plane for the rest
of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
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franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout. Here,
you got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
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And this is an underrated part of this this story.
The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
and played this year he's old or there's other some
conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get into that now.
A butt Lebron, I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But
he's not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court
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or whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's
also the possibilities just load management, and they didn't want
to call it that, so they came up with a
fugazi injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
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Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
forget a swag bag. They should build a statue, a
Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
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baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
Maverick fans, they could do it. And hey, throw flowers
and chocolates in there if you want. You can do that,
you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
and saving the franchise and all that. One sided. The
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trade so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I know
he's falling off of polite society, but you think, like
Vince McMahon is back and he's like running the NBA,
is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA. And que
that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
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not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
from the Ashes, and Niko Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
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fade to black. They should retire his number, Well, he
doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
what they should do. They should retire number one because
that is a number one blender in the social media era.
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humdinger of conspiracies. That kind of works out like a
Martin Scorsese movie. It involves professional sports, it involves the mafiosos.
It's a it's a humdinger of a story. We'll get
to that and we'll take your calls at eight seven,
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Here it is the Bain Malord show up all night,
every single night talking about the Nico Harrison whacking. I
do enjoy the hot take guys. Oh no, here's an
escape god, oh my god. Yeah, okay, yeah, dude dead
overlooking the longtime Maverick employees that he got rid of
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will be used against you in the court of sports radio.
And now back to it all right here we go,
Shane and de Moines says, is someone who gave up
the NBA twenty years ago. It was there a religious holiday.
You gave up the NBA, Shane, did I not? I
don't know what religion. I don't know. Do I want
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to know? Is that a sacrifice? You give up the NBA,
like you know for Lent? I don't think so. Anyway,
says when Seattle, So when Seattle lost the son. So
there you go. The Mavericks firing the bum really means
very little to me. Shane in the Moynes says, but
I will enjoy your trashing of him tonight A plus plus.
There you go. Ferg Dog says, I still don't buy
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Nico being responsible for the Luca trade. He was just
a fall guy. The one who orchestrated it was behind
the scenes, that was the commissioner of the NBA himself.
Count Dracula Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota checks in on
the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Is another wonderful Mallard monologue. Benjamin,
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I can't blame the MAVs GM for trading fat Buddy away.
You can't just overpay these athletes three hundred million every
time they want a new contract. All right, Rob says,
He says, thanks Maler, There you go. The gift of
Luca to the Lakers well, that's not gonna win. It's
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not like the lager who won a championship. Who knows.
They'll probably rig it so they win it. And we've
learned a lot of these things are rigged. Let's see here.
Not a Burner writes in and says, Ben, you mentioned
last week that Tom Brady recently cloned one of his dogs.
Did you know that Ferg Dog was his first clone dog?
I did not. I remember Ferg Dog lost the X
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account and then because of that, I guess, well that
is a clone. Then that would count as a clone. Yeah.
Late Night Drug Tester says two things from the opening
Malleard monologue. Didn't know the NBA played any defense, surprised fans.
Chanted that also, the only Dallas sports fans are the
only Dallas sports fans that your team that they should
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be calling. I'm confused by this. The Dallas Stars, I think,
is what he's yapping about. There you go. I think
there's a word missing, Late Night Drug Tester. Maybe it's me.
It could be me. I think you missed a word there,
A key word that would have been in the middle
of that. So okay on that. Yeah, the Mavericks are
in the top ten in defense to start the NBA
season and thirtieth in offense, and they suck. There you go,
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Ryan from San Diego, right since says being serious on
the day the trade happened, I'm sure you already knew
as I did. This was gonna go down as one
of the worst trades in NBA history, and it was
very one sided, which was obviously it turned out to
be true. Well now that Ryan, this is the kind
of trade. When this happened, I thought this was like
the prank. I thought this was like, you know, some
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of the guys online, like was in my sports talk
Barry does a lot of that stuff, but crack sports.
I thought it was one of those deals. Oh, that's
not real. It turned out to be real. Andrea the
Astrology Insider, reporting in she says, the Northern Lights can
be seen over the Bay Area. Really, there's a large
geomagnetic storm hitting me. Oh that's cool, man, o God,
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check out the Northern lights. Save yourself a trip over
to Europe or further up north and see those Northern lights. Man,
it's the way to do it. Man alive.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What else we have? This is page down Gil in
San Diego, right since says a plus on the mall monologue.
Like always, I can't wait to be at the unveiling
of the new Nico Harrison statue right next to the
legend check her and look, although you did a little
AI think that's a beautiful statue from Nico. I think
he should be holding up Gil. Can you do that
again and make a bronze foam finger like a Lakers
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foam finger in bronze with Nico holding it up announcing
your number one? There you go? All right, Brock says
Nico should have been applauded for the Luca trade, not fired.
Not fired. He says, all right, very good on that.
We'll take your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Also another conspiracy that caught my attention. Let's
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go to the phones. We'll say hello to Zach in
Rhode Island. What's going on? Zach? Welcome, You're on Fox
Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
So I wanted to pile onto what you were saying earlier.
You know, it's kind of like the MLB, like they
were having such low ratings and the championship last year
had such low ratings that I'm thinking the ball in
the hoop. And this is thinking about yesterday the numbers
that everyone put up, not just one team or one player,
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but across the entire across the entire league was so deuced.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'm thinking they have some new technology that we're not
even sure about it. I feel think that can't be
a magnet, because it was a magnet on the rim,
the ball would just hit the rim. It's got to
be some type of new technology that AI that sucks
produced that sucks the ball through the hoop.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I like this, So this is this, this is good allot,
let's let's let's uh, let's use that as a jumping
off point. So, like, I don't know that AI is
the right term. I think maybe there's some kind of
robotic like Elon Musk came up with something to put
in the ball that will you know, like the military
supposedly has these missiles that they can pinpoint within a
few feet from thousands of miles away. So it's like
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military that's great, So military grade technology zach to get
the ball, but only for certain players, right, only for
like Wemby and guys like that. Yeah, okay, okay, good,
I like it.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I like it. That's good. We're work, we're work shopping.
We're work shopping. This this is good. I like this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And you know what I thought about too. Maybe it
was not much, but maybe it was Cuban before it
got on the shot take. He grabbed the technology before
they put it on shark Take and applied it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
To the Oh that's great. Yeah, yeah, Mark Cuban. And
it's not available. It's not available to the public. It's
it's for the military and pro basketball. Yeah. And by
the way, hold wait, hold on, hold on, how about
this act? The NFL also uses it, but only in
the playoffs. How about that? Come on, come on, come on,
(29:57):
come on, any any mahomes past the kind of sales
a little bit. You just hit the button and it
goes right to the wide receiver, right in the right
in the hands, right in the hands.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh, sometimes it still bounces off the helmet. I I uh.
By the way, I'm actually saying this stuff on the radio.
I'm actually Jack from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh why well, why did you pretend to be Zach
from Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Well, I might be Zact, but now that I'm saying
this stuff on the radio, I'm changing my.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, I got you. Yeah, you don't want to you
don't want to knock on your door from big brother.
I got you. Only the MLB threatens to kill people.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I understand players threatened to kill people.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah. Well, well how about hey'll you go, I'll run
this by you. Here is Zach. You're a conspiracy theory guy,
So what do you think here? I saw this bouncing around.
There's a conspiracy theory. The Heat coach Eric Spolstra, unfortunately
his house burned up the other day, right, so there's
a conspiracy theory that it's somehow tied in with the
Terry Roseier gambling thing. Oh wow that yeah, now it's
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all this and this is just chatter. Who knows what's
true or not. It's a conspiracy theory, so take it
for what you want. But it's somehow linked. Rosier was
playing for the Miami Heat. Yeah, the mob was involved
in this, but Rosier the allegation is when he was
doing that, it was with the Charlotte Hornets. But either way,
Spolster's home burned up at four point thirty in the morning.
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I guess it was last last week. So yeah, it's
pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Huh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I mean, well yeah, okay, yeah, they always checked the
toest the connection between Rosier's you know, gambling issues of
the mob and you know, I know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Paul House turning down. That's a lot. Jack from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's right, that's Jack. You had, Jack, You've never You're
not a mob guy, Jack, Right, you've never, You've never.
Oh that's right, that's right, Jack. I'm sorry, Zach. And
that's our old morning show, Zach and Jack. We used
to have a morning show called Zach and Jackie Radio back
in the day. Jack Trudeau, former Colts quarterback back. All right,
I gotta thank you, Zach.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
What what what? What? What? What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I'm getting pulled over by the heavy list. I don't
even know they can do this. Maybe didn't want to
check my blood press. I'm getting pulled.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You can't get pulled over. You can't get pulled.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I think I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
All Right, I gotta thank you. That guy's a character.
Huh like that guy? Yeah? I need more more guys
like that to call the show. She'll be better, eh.
So the anybody buying that the mob was, I mean,
people throw anything out. Why not what the hell hmm,
people's homes do burned down? Mike Breen, the guy that
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was the well, he still is the face of the
NBA play by I play his house burned down. Nobody
said the mob was involved in that. It was they
were doing some construction and somebody screwed something up and
then there you go. Man alive. All right, it is
the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on, we'll take
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That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three six
niners a theme of the hour, and so we'll go
with the theme of the hour. So Golden States, Stephen
Curry was called for his first flagrant foul. That's he
had not had a flagrant foul in his entire career.
(33:24):
So Curry went one thousand, one hundred and eighty nine
games in the regular season and the playoffs without being
called for a flagrant foul, the fourth most since nineteen
ninety six when they, I guess they put that in
ninety six ninety seven. However, I hold the NBA record
for the most games played without a flagrant foul. Who
(33:49):
am I? That is the question. The answer we'll get
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little bit of a run by the Grizzlies lag. Anyway,
let's get to the now. Who am I get? Theme
of the hour of celebrating the demise of Nico Harrison
as the GM of the Dallas mav Rex. We don't
feel bad. He got a big payout to go away.
So here is the who am I game? Golden State
Stephen Curry was called for his first career flagrant foul.
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Golden State got smoked, absolutely smoked by Okay Seas. So
I guess we will not hear from Alamy dlu and
Lucky Tony and the Bay Area crowd is gonna be
quiet on that one. But Curry had gone one eighty
nine games in the regular season and the playoffs without
being called for a flagrant foul. That was the fourth
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most since at least the ninety six ninety seven season.
That's when they started tracking that kind of crap, and
I believe that's when the rule came in anyway. So
I hold the record for the most consecutive games without
being called for a flagrant foul in the NBA. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(37:17):
Sus smokes a lot says Curry gone wild? Okay air
bud from Big Greg, and I well, I met Big
Greg at the Minnesota meeting. But he's gonna be one
of our offensive linemen. I think he's scheduled to be
our right tackle. I believe. Yeah, Chandler bing from Rob
the goat Man. Dirk Diggler. Guess by random Ryan in Carolina. Yeah,
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he went with that Andy in Lina Lakes. I don't
know what that's about. Ed O'Bannon guessed by Shane and Moyne.
Liberachi from Alf the o'punt. It's fine. Liberachi's name came
up the other day because if randomly, because we were
talking about Jim Irsay in a conversation I had as
they died, and I'm pretty sure Jim Ursey owns Liberachi's piano.
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Liber You know, most people don't know who that is anymore,
but he was a big deal back in the day.
I guess Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Guess by Femi Tanya Harding,
who has doubled Nichols today, she's fifty five. Who else
do we have? Page down? Rashid Wallace, Ball, don't lie, Ball,
don't lie. Both teams played hard, my man, both teams
played hard. Miguel on Fire and I love the fact
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that I know the inside skinny from the late Great
Trailbrezers announcer Brian Wheeler, who gave me the inside skinny
on how that went down. When Rashid Wallace just kept repeating.
Both teams played hard, my Man, Both teams played hard,
Andy and Lionel Lake's going with Kareem Abdul Jabbar Chop Chop,
Heathcliff Slocum from Mister Nice Guy, Mighty Ducks, Legend Goldberg
from not a Burner in Anthony, Paper Machee Davis guess
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by Malar prop Guy. That's his answer. Who else do
we have? Page down? We'll skip over that. Gordy Verrell
from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Murphy guess by Gil in
San Diego, Ozzie Wiz from Western Australia where the Kangaroos
run wild, going with the Warm Dennis Rodman, Bill lame
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Beer from Top Daddy. Who else do I page?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Then?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Clubber Lang guess by Spockswed on the Oregon Trail. Hugh
on I five going with Eric Sleepy Floyd as his answer,
Big Lou He's on number two going with Reggie Miller's
insurance adjuster. Wow, All right? Who else do we have?
Johnny Q going with Shaq, Lonnie Shelton from Ryan in
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San Diego, Big rig Rob going with Angels, Legend, Moe
Vaughn as his answer. All right, enough of that. The
correct answer, all right, reveal answers. Reveal answers a Golden
State Stephen Curry, who has the fourth most games now
before getting called for a flagrant foul. The record is
held by Ray Allen, Celtic legend Ray Allen back in
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the day.
Watch out for the wrecking Ball. Welcome in the beginning
of our number one It's the Ben Malor Show podcast.
We are together on this Wednesday, the twelfth day of November.
A major whacking in the world of sports as the
NBA says bye bye to one of the most notorious
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figures in the front office of that sport. What does
the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the Maverick fanbase
who've been calling for it after the Luca trade nine
months ago? Also, how much blame for the Luca Donzik
trade goes to the Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont? How much
does he deserve for backing Harrison's Luca blunder? Also, should
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the Lakers send the Mavericks a thank you note for
the Luka Doncic trade? Now that Nico Harrison has been
decommissioned as the executive in Dallas, we'll talk about all
that and more. Don't forget a new episode of Benny
Versus the Penny will be available today on the Benny
Vspenny YouTube channels, So you're gonna want to watch that.
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Handicapping the Thursday game. Little appetizer for you as the
NFL weekend kicks off tomorrow. That'll be up later today,
Benny Vspenny. But let's take a look back the Nico
Harrison Mallard monologue from our number one Here.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
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hour playing the hit small Man, whatever old bosses you sussis,
it's gonna start out in the NBA. That's right. So
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the wings of change. You can almost hear them blowing
those winds of change in the NBA. They're actually howling.
They're not just blowing their howling the winds of change.
And so I assume you've heard by now don't bear
the lead. I didn't bear the lead, but my god,
So if you didn't see this, maybe not. The Dallas
mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck have cranked
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up the old ray Charles hit hit the Road Jack
or in this case, hit the road Nico, and they
have said bye bye to Nico Harrison nine months It's
like they gave birth nine months after he gave a
donation of luka doncic to the charity in Los Angeles,
the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in
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La So that move coming the day after the day
after the Mavrec owner, someone named Patrick Dumont, who was
in the right place at the right time. Family money
he believed married into. Anyway, he attended the the lost,
the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
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that game, fans again doing the chanting.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Fire harny go, fireny go.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Just like that, a familiar chant ever since Harrison did
the thing that everyone shook their head at and said,
oh my god, what are we doing? He went, He
went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that is
a good jumping off points. So let us discuss the question.
(04:35):
I think the most interesting part of this is what
does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the mav
Res fan base. So on this one, I've got commercial
airline pilot eBay and President Obama, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
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make some tex mex which is, I'm not as good
as the traditional American Mexican food, but it's fine text Mexas,
okay whatever, All right.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So a my.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Word to answer the question, what does the firing of
Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
therapeutic obviously, right, healing, wounds. You know, like a dog
will come up to you if you have a cut
on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
licking of the wound is what this is. Here, We're
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talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned.
The fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
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They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
sure enough the day of reckoning has a And make
no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self made man.
He was self made man. He became because of the
moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas. Congratulations Nico,
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way to go, buddy. Now he does have some friends
in the media. I've seen a bunch of people trying
to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all on him,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's not just
the Luca tree. There's other stuff. Involved in this. Yeah,
the Luca trad was not all him, but there's other
layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
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But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
you know that kind of thing. It was louder. He
provided Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front
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office malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the
right word there. He took a team that, granted it
was a bit of a fluke run, but they had
been in the NBA Finals Dallas against the Celtics, and
he said, you know what, I don't like that. Eh,
eh no, I'm not gonna do that. And so they're
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in the NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and
he's let's turn this into the NBA's version of a
staled economy. Okay, fine, will vaporize anything good that ever
happened while I was the executive in Dallas. Check that box.
And as the saying goes, as the saying goes there,
you can be a commercial airline pilot, one of the
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great pilots. You can have thousands of thousands of hours
in the sky and land every single plane, do a
tremendous job on time pilot. However, if you crash one
of those planes, they're not talking about all the planes
that you landed, you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway,
you're remembered for something else. But Nico did the thing
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you can't do at the time. You can't do it,
and everyone knows that you're supposed to build on a
championship team, build up an empire in that era. You
don't go in there and torch it. You don't do
that and gutting whatever was there there was not there
there at that particular point. And so the Luca things
won part of it, obviously the biggest part of it.
(08:27):
But he also fired some popular people behind the scenes
support staff with the Mavericks. There was a story that
has been well publicized about a long time staffer for
the Mavericks who was in the training staff that got
let go. Loyal people, loyal foot soldiers for the Dallas
Mavericks who got let go. You can't treat people like
that and expect that the basketball gods are going to
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bless you. So this was a bit of a karmic correction,
as our astrology insider Andrea would say. And I know
there's a cosmic event going on right now, but they
sent Nico Harrison straight to the hoops. Who's goal is
what they did. They're finally some peace in Dallas now,
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Page two, continuing the theme here, continuing the theme. So
the the other question that's on the tip of my
tongue here, how much blame for the Luka Donzik trade
does the Mavericks owner, this guy Patrick Dumont, how much
does he deserve backing Nico Harrison in the Luca Boner,
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the blunder, the blooper, however you want to call it,
whatever b word, Blunder, blooper, boner, all good words, all
good descriptive words. They all work. So on the Malard
scale of blame, the Malar scale of blame, the owner
gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison gets forty percent. And
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here's why, all right, the owner always has final edit.
It's like when you make a movie, you hire the
greatest people to make the movie. You can possibly make
but ultimately there's one person that has the final edit,
final cut, and that's the person that decides what's actually
in the movie and what's not in the movie. And
so they could have, as ownership should have, would have
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hit the kill switch on the Luca trade, could have
stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again, this was
not just a rogue GM running around in the dark.
You can trade a lot of players without ownership signing off,
and you cannot trade the face of the franchise. You're
not gonna be able to do that. So Dumont, if
you look at it, he either rubbers stamped the trade
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and said, okay, mazatav I support this. He encouraged it,
but that's bad also, or he was just asleep at
the switch. What else is there? Is there anything else?
Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he might have lit
the match. He might have lit the match there. But
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Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner of the Mavericks there,
he's the one that owned the warehouse. So you know,
I have no skin in the game. I don't and
you know we're on in Dallas and we you know,
I got a few people that are contributors. I know
a lot of people listening, but they very rarely call in.
And I wouldn't call in right now if as a
Dallas sportsman either, because of how pathetic things are. But
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that said, like the vision I had for this, this
trade insurance, fraud, insurance. You know what I'm saying. No,
you feel me on that insurance. Let me explain. So
you hear those insurance scams, It's like the Mavericks just
torched their own warehouse to collect an insurance payout. Like, eh, yeah,
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imagine in the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of
the Mavericks and Niko standing side by side with matching
cans of unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell
the smoke that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no,
how did this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you
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lit the match? Dummy, Yeah, you're the one that did that.
So this was not a basketball decision. It was basketball arson,
is what it was. And they burned down the mansion
that Luca was living in for the insurance payout, and
now they're sifting through the rubble and the ashes, and
it's like then they have the hoodspot to say the
owders like, oh, you know, we regret, we regret this.
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Oh really, well, isn't that convenient you regret it? Okay,
So you don't accidentally trade a player like you just don't.
You don't trade a player of that ilk that does
not happen, and so you don't trade them for a
brittle bag of bones, which is what you did. Who's
left legs have the shelf life of cottage cheese. You
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did that. You're the ones that took that bounty back,
and so listen. It's intentional negligence, is what it is.
And after months of the rhetoric being from the maverage
will Nico, we trust in Nico, we trust the rhetoric, suddenly,
oh you know that was a mistake. I really screwed
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that one up man. Bad job by us. Yeah, no kidding,
no kidding, pal My God. Now, visionist history for sure,
considering what's been going on, not a full year, but
close enough, close enough has happened in February. Now we're
in mid mid November.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
even shop Luke like that's the part. It's one thing
as well. You shouldn't trade them, Yeah, shouldn't trade them
if you're gonna trade him. Okay, there's ways to do
this right there. There are layers this as well. There
are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
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You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
what can we what can we get for this I
they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here,
I'm gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
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seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors, the Knicks,
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the Celtics, teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
and misdemeanors for good old Nico there and Nico Harrison.
If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
and basketball treason, basketball treason, hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
been as good as that trade would have been if
they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
Thanks for asking. It was so bad that you've got
conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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movie Major League they tanked. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
and they did this on purpose. They want to move
the team to Sin City, lost wages Nevada there, and
it's it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me
if that was somewhere in the decision making process. It
would not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying
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to get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some
bureaucracy involved in that as I understand it, And so
cash is always the king, and those bright neon lights
and lost wages Nevada. You've got this new toy, the
billionaire's toy here. And so the Mavericks listen, they can
fire Nico Harrison. They fire Nico Harrison. However, you can't
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wash off the stain. You ever had an accident with
oil and you get oil on your clothes and you
can't get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is
worse than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on
his watch and the owner signed off on it. But
man alive, all right? Now, last word, we continue in
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depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So
question should let's go like this, So should the Lakers
send the Mavericks a thank you note for the leucadontic
trade now that Nico Harrison has been whacked given the guillotine.
(17:24):
So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
So just hand deliver it to Nico Harrison and give
him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
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gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
And lifetime pass. How about this. If he ever wants
to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
Ico can fly on the team plane for the rest
of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
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franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout. Here,
you got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
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And this is an underrated part of this this story.
The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
and played this year he's old or there's other some
conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get into that now.
A butt Lebron, I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But
he's not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court
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or whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's
also the possibilities just load management, and they didn't want
to call it that, so they came up with a
fugazi injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
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Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
forget a swag bag. They should build a statue, a
Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
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baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
Maverick fans, they could do it. And hey, throw flowers
and chocolates in there if you want. You can do that,
you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
and saving the franchise and all that. One sided. The
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trade so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I know
he's falling off of polite society, but you think, like
Vince McMahon is back and he's like running the NBA,
is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA. And que
that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
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not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
from the Ashes, and Niko Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
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fade to black. They should retire his number, Well, he
doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
what they should do. They should retire number one because
that is a number one blender in the social media era.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you want to
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So touched on a few conspiracies. We didn't touch the
(21:19):
humdinger of conspiracies. That kind of works out like a
Martin Scorsese movie. It involves professional sports, it involves the mafiosos.
It's a it's a humdinger of a story. We'll get
to that and we'll take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, also on x at Ben Mallor.
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Here it is the Bain Malord show up all night,
every single night talking about the Nico Harrison whacking. I
do enjoy the hot take guys. Oh no, here's an
escape god, oh my god. Yeah, okay, yeah, dude dead
overlooking the longtime Maverick employees that he got rid of
(22:50):
other than Luca. But yeah. Anyway, Hey, if you want
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Sale to my friend Mark Ramsey, who's here hitting the
buttons tonight. You salot to Mark, the pride of Chicago
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in Chicago. Saleoad to Mark at Mark Ramsey with a C.
Mark Ramsey six four five oh and salo to Coop
as well at uh Bronco Fan. Your comments can and
(23:34):
will be used against you in the court of sports radio.
And now back to it all right here we go,
Shane and de Moines says, is someone who gave up
the NBA twenty years ago. It was there a religious holiday.
You gave up the NBA, Shane, did I not? I
don't know what religion. I don't know. Do I want
(23:55):
to know? Is that a sacrifice? You give up the NBA,
like you know for Lent? I don't think so. Anyway,
says when Seattle, So when Seattle lost the son. So
there you go. The Mavericks firing the bum really means
very little to me. Shane in the Moynes says, but
I will enjoy your trashing of him tonight A plus plus.
There you go. Ferg Dog says, I still don't buy
(24:17):
Nico being responsible for the Luca trade. He was just
a fall guy. The one who orchestrated it was behind
the scenes, that was the commissioner of the NBA himself.
Count Dracula Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota checks in on
the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Is another wonderful Mallard monologue. Benjamin,
(24:38):
I can't blame the MAVs GM for trading fat Buddy away.
You can't just overpay these athletes three hundred million every
time they want a new contract. All right, Rob says,
He says, thanks Maler, There you go. The gift of
Luca to the Lakers well, that's not gonna win. It's
(24:58):
not like the lager who won a championship. Who knows.
They'll probably rig it so they win it. And we've
learned a lot of these things are rigged. Let's see here.
Not a Burner writes in and says, Ben, you mentioned
last week that Tom Brady recently cloned one of his dogs.
Did you know that Ferg Dog was his first clone dog?
I did not. I remember Ferg Dog lost the X
(25:21):
account and then because of that, I guess, well that
is a clone. Then that would count as a clone. Yeah.
Late Night Drug Tester says two things from the opening
Malleard monologue. Didn't know the NBA played any defense, surprised fans.
Chanted that also, the only Dallas sports fans are the
only Dallas sports fans that your team that they should
(25:41):
be calling. I'm confused by this. The Dallas Stars, I think,
is what he's yapping about. There you go. I think
there's a word missing, Late Night Drug Tester. Maybe it's me.
It could be me. I think you missed a word there,
A key word that would have been in the middle
of that. So okay on that. Yeah, the Mavericks are
in the top ten in defense to start the NBA
season and thirtieth in offense, and they suck. There you go,
(26:04):
Ryan from San Diego, right since says being serious on
the day the trade happened, I'm sure you already knew
as I did. This was gonna go down as one
of the worst trades in NBA history, and it was
very one sided, which was obviously it turned out to
be true. Well now that Ryan, this is the kind
of trade. When this happened, I thought this was like
the prank. I thought this was like, you know, some
(26:27):
of the guys online, like was in my sports talk
Barry does a lot of that stuff, but crack sports.
I thought it was one of those deals. Oh, that's
not real. It turned out to be real. Andrea the
Astrology Insider, reporting in she says, the Northern Lights can
be seen over the Bay Area. Really, there's a large
geomagnetic storm hitting me. Oh that's cool, man, o God,
(26:52):
check out the Northern lights. Save yourself a trip over
to Europe or further up north and see those Northern lights. Man,
it's the way to do it. Man alive.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What else we have? This is page down Gil in
San Diego, right since says a plus on the mall monologue.
Like always, I can't wait to be at the unveiling
of the new Nico Harrison statue right next to the
legend check her and look, although you did a little
AI think that's a beautiful statue from Nico. I think
he should be holding up Gil. Can you do that
again and make a bronze foam finger like a Lakers
(27:24):
foam finger in bronze with Nico holding it up announcing
your number one? There you go? All right, Brock says
Nico should have been applauded for the Luca trade, not fired.
Not fired. He says, all right, very good on that.
We'll take your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Also another conspiracy that caught my attention. Let's
(27:46):
go to the phones. We'll say hello to Zach in
Rhode Island. What's going on? Zach? Welcome, You're on Fox
Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
So I wanted to pile onto what you were saying earlier.
You know, it's kind of like the MLB, like they
were having such low ratings and the championship last year
had such low ratings that I'm thinking the ball in
the hoop. And this is thinking about yesterday the numbers
that everyone put up, not just one team or one player,
(28:18):
but across the entire across the entire league was so deuced.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'm thinking they have some new technology that we're not
even sure about it. I feel think that can't be
a magnet, because it was a magnet on the rim,
the ball would just hit the rim. It's got to
be some type of new technology that AI that sucks
produced that sucks the ball through the hoop.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I like this, So this is this, this is good allot,
let's let's let's uh, let's use that as a jumping
off point. So, like, I don't know that AI is
the right term. I think maybe there's some kind of
robotic like Elon Musk came up with something to put
in the ball that will you know, like the military
supposedly has these missiles that they can pinpoint within a
few feet from thousands of miles away. So it's like
(29:05):
military that's great, So military grade technology zach to get
the ball, but only for certain players, right, only for
like Wemby and guys like that. Yeah, okay, okay, good,
I like it.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I like it. That's good. We're work, we're work shopping.
We're work shopping. This this is good. I like this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
And you know what I thought about too. Maybe it
was not much, but maybe it was Cuban before it
got on the shot take. He grabbed the technology before
they put it on shark Take and applied it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
To the Oh that's great. Yeah, yeah, Mark Cuban. And
it's not available. It's not available to the public. It's
it's for the military and pro basketball. Yeah. And by
the way, hold wait, hold on, hold on, how about
this act? The NFL also uses it, but only in
the playoffs. How about that? Come on, come on, come on,
(29:57):
come on, any any mahomes past the kind of sales
a little bit. You just hit the button and it
goes right to the wide receiver, right in the right
in the hands, right in the hands.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh, sometimes it still bounces off the helmet. I I uh.
By the way, I'm actually saying this stuff on the radio.
I'm actually Jack from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh why well, why did you pretend to be Zach
from Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Well, I might be Zact, but now that I'm saying
this stuff on the radio, I'm changing my.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, I got you. Yeah, you don't want to you
don't want to knock on your door from big brother.
I got you. Only the MLB threatens to kill people.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
I understand players threatened to kill people.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah. Well, well how about hey'll you go, I'll run
this by you. Here is Zach. You're a conspiracy theory guy,
So what do you think here? I saw this bouncing around.
There's a conspiracy theory. The Heat coach Eric Spolstra, unfortunately
his house burned up the other day, right, so there's
a conspiracy theory that it's somehow tied in with the
Terry Roseier gambling thing. Oh wow that yeah, now it's
(31:01):
all this and this is just chatter. Who knows what's
true or not. It's a conspiracy theory, so take it
for what you want. But it's somehow linked. Rosier was
playing for the Miami Heat. Yeah, the mob was involved
in this, but Rosier the allegation is when he was
doing that, it was with the Charlotte Hornets. But either way,
Spolster's home burned up at four point thirty in the morning.
(31:24):
I guess it was last last week. So yeah, it's
pretty wild.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Huh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I mean, well yeah, okay, yeah, they always checked the
toest the connection between Rosier's you know, gambling issues of
the mob and you know, I know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Paul House turning down. That's a lot. Jack from New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's right, that's Jack. You had, Jack, You've never You're
not a mob guy, Jack, Right, you've never, You've never.
Oh that's right, that's right, Jack. I'm sorry, Zach. And
that's our old morning show, Zach and Jack. We used
to have a morning show called Zach and Jackie Radio back
in the day. Jack Trudeau, former Colts quarterback back. All right,
I gotta thank you, Zach.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
What what what? What? What? What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
What?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I'm getting pulled over by the heavy list. I don't
even know they can do this. Maybe didn't want to
check my blood press. I'm getting pulled.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You can't get pulled over. You can't get pulled.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I think I didn't know either.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
All Right, I gotta thank you. That guy's a character.
Huh like that guy? Yeah? I need more more guys
like that to call the show. She'll be better, eh.
So the anybody buying that the mob was, I mean,
people throw anything out. Why not what the hell hmm,
people's homes do burned down? Mike Breen, the guy that
(32:43):
was the well, he still is the face of the
NBA play by I play his house burned down. Nobody
said the mob was involved in that. It was they
were doing some construction and somebody screwed something up and
then there you go. Man alive. All right, it is
the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on, we'll take
your phone calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
(33:04):
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three six
niners a theme of the hour, and so we'll go
with the theme of the hour. So Golden States, Stephen
Curry was called for his first flagrant foul. That's he
had not had a flagrant foul in his entire career.
(33:24):
So Curry went one thousand, one hundred and eighty nine
games in the regular season and the playoffs without being
called for a flagrant foul, the fourth most since nineteen
ninety six when they, I guess they put that in
ninety six ninety seven. However, I hold the NBA record
for the most games played without a flagrant foul. Who
(33:49):
am I? That is the question. The answer we'll get
to it. We'll do it next Bill Miller and you.
It is the Ben Mather Show. We are together on
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buying should be. Jalen Brunson In that game for the
Knickerbockers at thirty two points, John Morant only sixteen because
he's not happy. If he was happy, he would have
had many more points than that. And the Knicks led
by as many as twenty eight in that game, and
they end up winning comfortably. They won by thirteen a
(36:13):
little bit of a run by the Grizzlies lag. Anyway,
let's get to the now. Who am I get? Theme
of the hour of celebrating the demise of Nico Harrison
as the GM of the Dallas mav Rex. We don't
feel bad. He got a big payout to go away.
So here is the who am I game? Golden State
Stephen Curry was called for his first career flagrant foul.
(36:35):
Golden State got smoked, absolutely smoked by Okay Seas. So
I guess we will not hear from Alamy dlu and
Lucky Tony and the Bay Area crowd is gonna be
quiet on that one. But Curry had gone one eighty
nine games in the regular season and the playoffs without
being called for a flagrant foul. That was the fourth
(36:56):
most since at least the ninety six ninety seven season.
That's when they started tracking that kind of crap, and
I believe that's when the rule came in anyway. So
I hold the record for the most consecutive games without
being called for a flagrant foul in the NBA. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(37:17):
Sus smokes a lot says Curry gone wild? Okay air
bud from Big Greg, and I well, I met Big
Greg at the Minnesota meeting. But he's gonna be one
of our offensive linemen. I think he's scheduled to be
our right tackle. I believe. Yeah, Chandler bing from Rob
the goat Man. Dirk Diggler. Guess by random Ryan in Carolina. Yeah,
(37:40):
he went with that Andy in Lina Lakes. I don't
know what that's about. Ed O'Bannon guessed by Shane and Moyne.
Liberachi from Alf the o'punt. It's fine. Liberachi's name came
up the other day because if randomly, because we were
talking about Jim Irsay in a conversation I had as
they died, and I'm pretty sure Jim Ursey owns Liberachi's piano.
(38:02):
Liber You know, most people don't know who that is anymore,
but he was a big deal back in the day.
I guess Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Guess by Femi Tanya Harding,
who has doubled Nichols today, she's fifty five. Who else
do we have? Page down? Rashid Wallace, Ball, don't lie, Ball,
don't lie. Both teams played hard, my man, both teams
played hard. Miguel on Fire and I love the fact
(38:24):
that I know the inside skinny from the late Great
Trailbrezers announcer Brian Wheeler, who gave me the inside skinny
on how that went down. When Rashid Wallace just kept repeating.
Both teams played hard, my Man, Both teams played hard,
Andy and Lionel Lake's going with Kareem Abdul Jabbar Chop Chop,
Heathcliff Slocum from Mister Nice Guy, Mighty Ducks, Legend Goldberg
from not a Burner in Anthony, Paper Machee Davis guess
(38:49):
by Malar prop Guy. That's his answer. Who else do
we have? Page down? We'll skip over that. Gordy Verrell
from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Murphy guess by Gil in
San Diego, Ozzie Wiz from Western Australia where the Kangaroos
run wild, going with the Warm Dennis Rodman, Bill lame
(39:10):
Beer from Top Daddy. Who else do I page?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Then?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Clubber Lang guess by Spockswed on the Oregon Trail. Hugh
on I five going with Eric Sleepy Floyd as his answer,
Big Lou He's on number two going with Reggie Miller's
insurance adjuster. Wow, All right? Who else do we have?
Johnny Q going with Shaq, Lonnie Shelton from Ryan in
(39:34):
San Diego, Big rig Rob going with Angels, Legend, Moe
Vaughn as his answer. All right, enough of that. The
correct answer, all right, reveal answers. Reveal answers a Golden
State Stephen Curry, who has the fourth most games now
before getting called for a flagrant foul. The record is
held by Ray Allen, Celtic legend Ray Allen back in
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the day.
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