November 11, 2025 • 7 mins
With Nico Harrison out the door, and Anthony Davis still battling injury, all the while we wait on the return of Kyrie Irving, this segment looks at the Mavs philosophy now and in the near future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Benan Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Let's
give away those nine inch nails tickets. The first person
using the Iheard app to leave their name, their phone number,
their email address, and can tell us which movie did
KT just recommend that we all go see. If you
were listening, you know, KT recommended that we go to
the theater and see this movie?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Which one is it?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The first person that tells us and gives us all
that information Windsow is highly coveted nine inch nails tickets.
And we have more to give away later in the week,
but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, this is cool around the sports KTD co queint
says all the sports.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yes, yeah, I do have all the sports. The Mavericks
have fired their general manager, Nico Harrison.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What this morning?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah's right, and we should tease a head because at
five o'clock we will have on Nicholas Dickinson, the kid
who was photographed in a Luka Doncic Lakers jersey next
to MAVs owner Patrick Dumont five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Do not miss that, man.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I looked up in the middle of the game and
saw that kid sitting there, and I just thought it
was like one of Patrick's kids.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I didn't know that it was a thing until after
the game and I saw stories about it and stuff. Yeah,
you know, because there's you know, he's got kids and stuff,
and I don't know who his kids are or aren't.
And it didn't occur to me in the middle of
a game that some kid that's not his would be
sitting next to him in a Luca Like.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I didn't even think about.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It, but you thought it might be his kid wearing
a Luca dres I mean, I wasn't even thinking about
it being a Luca jersey. I just saw this kid, yeah,
and I thought it's either you know, all those people
on the front row all usually know each other and stuff,
so I thought it was just because he was talking
to him. So I thought, oh, there's a kid that
he knows. And then we're afterwards. I saw the Athletic article,
so I was like, oh, that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I had no idea. So let me ask you this skin.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Shoot, the Mavericks don't own a first round pick after
this draft, their own first round pick till twenty thirty one.
I believe, uh yeah, because there's drafts where people can
swap with them, right, Yeah, so have this year's and
then it starts right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And so.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like if you are to say, hey, like both both
plans are in trouble. Like the win now plan is
in huge trouble because they just can't stay healthy. The
rebuild plan is in trouble because you are already committed
huge financially to these veterans that are almost untradable because
(02:25):
the team that would acquire them would be a contender,
and then they're going to go into some luxury tax
threshold that's going to murder their soul. So it's not
like you can go trade these guys to commit to rebuilding.
It wouldn't be easy to to go get picks, which
you don't really have. So like, both both windows are
in a bad situation. The best thing that could happen
(02:46):
would be that they suddenly got healthy and did something
and were able to compete this year. Which is why
I think, you know, Anthony Davis has been held out
of the last two games when he wanted to play.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't have inside information. This is the reports that
are out there, and I believe them to be true.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I just don't have confidence that even if he's fully healthy,
he can stay healthy and keep playing. I think that's
really playing like fourteen out of forty five games or
whatever since he's been here, and he came here as
being the most hurt guy in the history of ever
in my perception. So I just don't think building around
him is smart either. But it kind of is where
they is. They feel stuck and I don't know even
(03:26):
how a new GM could help get them out of
this hole. So if this is a pr move in
a lot of ways, but if they in the offseason,
if they do go get a different GM, what are
what could he do? Like if you were the GM,
what would you be looking at doing that?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I can't well, it's kind of hard to answer what
it's going to be like because I think this team
can be good, and I you know, if they if
they do get healthy this year, I think they're going
to ruin somebody's season because this is a really good team.
You guys realize, this is a top five defensive team
right now. Without Anthony Davis and Maarson offensive you just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's very much like Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The Rangers are the Cowboys, right, So you're doing one
side Jackal Hyde and both things.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But if you replace Brandon Williams with Kyrie Irving, you
would feel wildly different about this basketball team.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
If you had Lively in Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah, like real quick, the specific nature of Anthony Davis's
injury is concerning, Yeah, because in my head, I'm going
trading before the Achilles pops and that's terrible. Well, it
doesn't mean that's what's going to happen, but like it's him,
and that's just there.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And it's all you know, it's the overall absurdity of
the trade in the first place. You know, there's all
these articles that came out about dissatisfaction with Luca's work
ethic and all this sort of stuff that we can
talk about, Okay, and like, okay, if that's real and
you feel that way, you traded him for a guy
that's a lot older, that has an injury history, So
(04:49):
that's flawed logic. Like, aside from the talent of the player,
Anthony Davis when he's healthy is a top ten NBA player,
arguably the best two way player in basketball. But I
said this when we traded for Kyrie Irving. Remember I
was scared of that. Do you know why, it's not
hard pull up Basketball Reference and look at the availability
for the last three seasons. That's just real basic stuff.
(05:12):
We're not even doing hard analysis here. Oh look, he's
played about forty five games every year. I mean, you know,
so Nico's logic in acquiring Anthony Davis and he loves
that player. He loved that player. He thought that player
could do everything the Mavericks needed. And I think if
one hundred percent healthy, he could. But there's no track
(05:33):
record of the health. So that's what makes it such
a flawed thing. And then to compound that, he couldn't
just go shop him on the open market because it
would have gotten shut down immediately by the agent. So
he decided, no matter what, I'm getting rid of that guy,
and this guy over here is who I want. And
Nico Harrison idealized a guy who's been hurt pretty much
(05:55):
sitt and I said this at the time. I don't
know if you guys remember this. At this time last year,
the talk of the NBA is that the MVP of
the league was Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Then you know what happened. He got hurt. Imagine that, so, dude,
they flawed. They fleeced him.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I mean, Palinka, you know Kobe's old agent, He's Kobe's
old shoe guy. Get together to coffee shop and make
the worst deal in the history of the Mavericks and
best deal in the history of the Lakers. Like, it's
not it's just absolute horsepoop.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's gonna be very difficult to move forward without the
guys that you have on your team being healthy. Because
if this team is fully healthy, I think they're a
top three team in the West.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I absolutely think that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's so tough though, to have Kyrie back from a
knee injury that soon, to say, you got to come
save our season.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We can't be offensive as a team without you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, And my whole thing and the whole time has
been can Kyrie this year be eighty percent of what
he was last year?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Is that even realistic? Because if he's eighty percent of
what he was last year, you still are going to
mop the floor with some team. What are his and
AD's contract situation this offseason? So Kyrie re signed, so
he's in. He's in for three years and I think
he has an opt out in two. I believe, Okay,
Anthony Davis has two more years after this season, and
(07:14):
I think he can opt out at the end of
next year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So he's here.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you know, without getting into the minutia, that it's
so difficult to trade very high priced players, and then
it becomes even more difficult when they're older, and then
it becomes even more difficult when they're injury prone. So
that's what Anthony Davis is. He's got a lot of injuries,
he's now in his early to mid thirties, and he
makes a ton of money.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So all that is very difficult. Oh that's awesome, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Coming up next though, let's turn our attention to the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Let's cuss the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Suddenly the Cowboys draft picks are looking a lot better.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We'll discuss next
Benan Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle. Let's
give away those nine inch nails tickets. The first person
using the Iheard app to leave their name, their phone number,
their email address, and can tell us which movie did
KT just recommend that we all go see. If you
were listening, you know, KT recommended that we go to
the theater and see this movie?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Which one is it?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
The first person that tells us and gives us all
that information Windsow is highly coveted nine inch nails tickets.
And we have more to give away later in the week,
but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Now, this is cool around the sports KTD co queint
says all the sports.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yes, yeah, I do have all the sports. The Mavericks
have fired their general manager, Nico Harrison.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What this morning?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah's right, and we should tease a head because at
five o'clock we will have on Nicholas Dickinson, the kid
who was photographed in a Luka Doncic Lakers jersey next
to MAVs owner Patrick Dumont five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Do not miss that, man.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I looked up in the middle of the game and
saw that kid sitting there, and I just thought it
was like one of Patrick's kids.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I didn't know that it was a thing until after
the game and I saw stories about it and stuff. Yeah,
you know, because there's you know, he's got kids and stuff,
and I don't know who his kids are or aren't.
And it didn't occur to me in the middle of
a game that some kid that's not his would be
sitting next to him in a Luca Like.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I didn't even think about.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It, but you thought it might be his kid wearing
a Luca dres I mean, I wasn't even thinking about
it being a Luca jersey. I just saw this kid, yeah,
and I thought it's either you know, all those people
on the front row all usually know each other and stuff,
so I thought it was just because he was talking
to him. So I thought, oh, there's a kid that
he knows. And then we're afterwards. I saw the Athletic article,
so I was like, oh, that was the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I had no idea. So let me ask you this skin.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Shoot, the Mavericks don't own a first round pick after
this draft, their own first round pick till twenty thirty one.
I believe, uh yeah, because there's drafts where people can
swap with them, right, Yeah, so have this year's and
then it starts right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
And so.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like if you are to say, hey, like both both
plans are in trouble. Like the win now plan is
in huge trouble because they just can't stay healthy. The
rebuild plan is in trouble because you are already committed
huge financially to these veterans that are almost untradable because
(02:25):
the team that would acquire them would be a contender,
and then they're going to go into some luxury tax
threshold that's going to murder their soul. So it's not
like you can go trade these guys to commit to rebuilding.
It wouldn't be easy to to go get picks, which
you don't really have. So like, both both windows are
in a bad situation. The best thing that could happen
(02:46):
would be that they suddenly got healthy and did something
and were able to compete this year. Which is why
I think, you know, Anthony Davis has been held out
of the last two games when he wanted to play.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I don't have inside information. This is the reports that
are out there, and I believe them to be true.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I just don't have confidence that even if he's fully healthy,
he can stay healthy and keep playing. I think that's
really playing like fourteen out of forty five games or
whatever since he's been here, and he came here as
being the most hurt guy in the history of ever
in my perception. So I just don't think building around
him is smart either. But it kind of is where
they is. They feel stuck and I don't know even
(03:26):
how a new GM could help get them out of
this hole. So if this is a pr move in
a lot of ways, but if they in the offseason,
if they do go get a different GM, what are
what could he do? Like if you were the GM,
what would you be looking at doing that?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I can't well, it's kind of hard to answer what
it's going to be like because I think this team
can be good, and I you know, if they if
they do get healthy this year, I think they're going
to ruin somebody's season because this is a really good team.
You guys realize, this is a top five defensive team
right now. Without Anthony Davis and Maarson offensive you just can't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's very much like Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The Rangers are the Cowboys, right, So you're doing one
side Jackal Hyde and both things.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
But if you replace Brandon Williams with Kyrie Irving, you
would feel wildly different about this basketball team.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
If you had Lively in Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yeah, like real quick, the specific nature of Anthony Davis's
injury is concerning, Yeah, because in my head, I'm going
trading before the Achilles pops and that's terrible. Well, it
doesn't mean that's what's going to happen, but like it's him,
and that's just there.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And it's all you know, it's the overall absurdity of
the trade in the first place. You know, there's all
these articles that came out about dissatisfaction with Luca's work
ethic and all this sort of stuff that we can
talk about, Okay, and like, okay, if that's real and
you feel that way, you traded him for a guy
that's a lot older, that has an injury history, So
(04:49):
that's flawed logic. Like, aside from the talent of the player,
Anthony Davis when he's healthy is a top ten NBA player,
arguably the best two way player in basketball. But I
said this when we traded for Kyrie Irving. Remember I
was scared of that. Do you know why, it's not
hard pull up Basketball Reference and look at the availability
for the last three seasons. That's just real basic stuff.
(05:12):
We're not even doing hard analysis here. Oh look, he's
played about forty five games every year. I mean, you know,
so Nico's logic in acquiring Anthony Davis and he loves
that player. He loved that player. He thought that player
could do everything the Mavericks needed. And I think if
one hundred percent healthy, he could. But there's no track
(05:33):
record of the health. So that's what makes it such
a flawed thing. And then to compound that, he couldn't
just go shop him on the open market because it
would have gotten shut down immediately by the agent. So
he decided, no matter what, I'm getting rid of that guy,
and this guy over here is who I want. And
Nico Harrison idealized a guy who's been hurt pretty much
(05:55):
sitt and I said this at the time. I don't
know if you guys remember this. At this time last year,
the talk of the NBA is that the MVP of
the league was Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Then you know what happened. He got hurt. Imagine that, so, dude,
they flawed. They fleeced him.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I mean, Palinka, you know Kobe's old agent, He's Kobe's
old shoe guy. Get together to coffee shop and make
the worst deal in the history of the Mavericks and
best deal in the history of the Lakers. Like, it's
not it's just absolute horsepoop.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's gonna be very difficult to move forward without the
guys that you have on your team being healthy. Because
if this team is fully healthy, I think they're a
top three team in the West.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I absolutely think that.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's so tough though, to have Kyrie back from a
knee injury that soon, to say, you got to come
save our season.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
We can't be offensive as a team without you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, And my whole thing and the whole time has
been can Kyrie this year be eighty percent of what
he was last year?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Is that even realistic? Because if he's eighty percent of
what he was last year, you still are going to
mop the floor with some team. What are his and
AD's contract situation this offseason? So Kyrie re signed, so
he's in. He's in for three years and I think
he has an opt out in two. I believe, Okay,
Anthony Davis has two more years after this season, and
(07:14):
I think he can opt out at the end of
next year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So he's here.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you know, without getting into the minutia, that it's
so difficult to trade very high priced players, and then
it becomes even more difficult when they're older, and then
it becomes even more difficult when they're injury prone. So
that's what Anthony Davis is. He's got a lot of injuries,
he's now in his early to mid thirties, and he
makes a ton of money.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So all that is very difficult. Oh that's awesome, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Coming up next though, let's turn our attention to the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Let's cuss the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Suddenly the Cowboys draft picks are looking a lot better.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We'll discuss next
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