Hours earlier than the Dallas Mavericks dismissed normal supervisor Nico Harrison, workforce proprietor Patrick Dumont discovered himself on the middle of a viral courtside second that completely summed up the franchise’s ongoing turmoil.
A photograph that shortly unfold throughout social media confirmed Dumont in a prolonged dialog with an 18-year-old fan sporting a Lakers Luka Doncic jersey – a placing picture given the anger that also surrounds the commerce sending Doncic to Los Angeles earlier this 12 months.
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That fan, Nicholas Dickason, later advised The Dallas Morning Information that the interplay wasn’t as hostile because the picture advised. In truth, Dickason mentioned he approached Dumont to apologize.
“I flipped him off at a recreation earlier this season,” Dickason admitted. “My dad noticed it and advised me to apologize to Dumont the subsequent time I noticed him.”
Dickason added “[Dumont] mentioned he was making an attempt to do what’s finest for the group and ‘Typically you’ve got good intentions and also you make errors. All of us do it.’”
That comment fueled hypothesis that the proprietor privately admitted remorse over the Doncic deal, although it’s unclear whether or not that was his true intent.
“We don’t have Dumont’s model of the story,” leaving room for interpretation because the report famous.
Nonetheless, the timing of the viral picture of the proprietor with the boy, surfacing simply hours earlier than Harrison’s firing, made the trade much more vital.
Dumont’s willingness to talk with a fan sporting Doncic’s Lakers jersey highlighted each his consciousness of the general public sentiment and the deep frustration of a fan base nonetheless struggling to maneuver on.
Whereas Harrison in the end paid the value for the disastrous commerce, many across the league observe that such a transfer may by no means have occurred with out possession approval.
Tuesday’s firing was yet one more acknowledgement of how dangerous issues have gone because the Luka commerce.
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