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The Zach Lowe Show

Mavericks Fire Nico. What’s Next? Plus, Possible Anthony Davis Trades With J. Kyle Mann.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

J. Kyle Mann joins Zach to react to today’s news of Nico Harrison’s firing (2:09) and sift through the wreckage of the Dallas Mavericks, going from the 2024 NBA Finals all the way to the present. What does it mean for the rest of the team, the front office, and the fans? All that, plus a slew of fake Anthony Davis trades (18:14) and much more. Host: Zach Lowe Guest: J. Kyle Mann Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, emergency, semi-emergency, the Dallas Mavericks fired Nico Harrison as general manager nine months after Harrison spearheaded the craziest, most unfathomable transaction, if not in the history of professional sports and in the history of the NBA in trading

0:21.3

Luca Dachich to the Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie in a first round pick.

0:25.7

What does it mean for the Mavericks, if anything?

0:28.0

What does it mean for their fans?

0:30.1

What does it mean for Anthony Davis?

0:32.6

Who's almost 33 years old, six years old, and Luca, one of the big issues I had with the

0:36.7

trade at the time, an obvious one, an issue nonetheless.

0:40.9

We go through some fake Anthony Davis trades for fun.

0:43.4

We sift through the wreckage of the Dallas Mavericks going from the NBA finals in 2024,

0:49.3

not that long ago, to this.

0:52.0

And Jay, Kyle Mann, talk about what this would be like if they didn't win the freaking lottery

0:56.8

out of nowhere and get Cooper Flag.

0:59.3

What does it mean for Kyrie?

1:00.6

You can imagine my flight out to Minneapolis where I'm doing a live show tomorrow night.

1:03.8

I actually thought the woman sitting next to me was going to be concerned about my frenzied

1:10.4

typing and how many trade machine windows and salary cap windows. was going to be concerned about my frenzied typing

1:10.8

and how many trade machine windows

1:13.4

and salary cap windows and tabs I had open on my laptop

1:16.9

and just the intensity of my glare.

1:21.6

So we're getting into all things, Mavericks.

1:23.6

I don't know, some other stuff probably comes up.

1:25.2

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