Report: Patrick Dumont Upset Nico Harrison Didn’t Warn Him Mavericks Fans Would Be This Angry About Luka Doncic Trade

According to NBA insider Tim Cato of DLLS, Patrick Dumont is upset that Nico Harrison didn’t warn him Dallas Mavericks fans would be this angry about the Luka Doncic trade.

Harrison traded Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers in February. 

“However, those team sources consistently express belief that Dumont no longer sees Harrison as a figure with irreproachable basketball expertise,” Cato wrote in his NBA column. “Most notably, team and league sources say, Dumont has had frustration with Harrison not warning him — or, perhaps even more damningly, being unaware — of the fandom’s outrage following the trade. Those same sources say it had some influence over Dumont’s decision to make Harrison appear for last week’s closed media event, which Harrison did not want to participate in.”

Dumont made Harrison do the closed-door press conference with local reporters. 

Harrison didn’t want to do it. 

“Yeah, there’s no regrets on the trade,” Harrison said. “Part of my job is to do the best thing for the Mavericks, not only today, but also in the future. And some of the decisions I’m going to make are going to be unpopular, and that’s my job, and I have to stand by it. And one last thing, also add, every trade I’ve done has been met with high scrutiny, and so eventually I’ll earn the trust of this community that you know some of these trades are going to work out, and they have at a high-level.”

Harrison has gotten death threats since the Doncic trade, but he doesn’t seem fazed by them. 

“Personally, I’m optimistic,” Harrison said. “You know, when you look at the team and you know, a couple times we’ve had three games in a row, we had eight players, and only seven and a half could actually play. Some of them were restricted minutes, but they didn’t stop playing. And so I’m super optimistic about that, and I believe in the trade I made, I believe that that’s going to bring us a championship caliber team going forward, and so I’m optimistic and excited about the future, and I do believe that once we win, the fans will come back. My family is solid. I don’t really want to talk about them, but my wife and I, we have super grounded kids, and they’re not oblivious to everything, but they’re well adjusted.”