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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck discuss the Dallas Mavericks relieving GM Nico Harrison of his duties on Tuesday. The Mavs went from contending for a title in 2024 to trading their franchise player just months later, and they currently find themselves at the bottom of the Western Conference. How will the Mavericks clean up the mess that Harrison left behind? Plus, every team has now played at least 10 games this season. What have been the biggest surprises and disappointments, and who would you least like to be? 0:00:00 Intro 1:01 FanDuel ad break 2:00 Initial reaction to Nico’s firing 34:37 Biggest surprises 41:41 Biggest disappointment 48:06 Who Would You Least Like to Be Read Michael Pina’s latest on Nico Harrison’s tenure as the Mavericks GM:https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/11/nba/nico-harrison-fired-dallas-mavericks. Hit the mailbag! [email protected] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard BeckProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Was popping, real ones. Logan Murdoch here, aka Logie Boone, Not the Two. Big news today with the firing of Nico Harrison by the Dallas Mavericks.
0:09.9	Me, Roger Bell, and Howard Mother Beck. Get into it. All of the rumblings about the firing, including the statement by Patrick Dumont.
0:18.9	Where do the Mavericks go from here? Is the question, I have no idea. But I do think that personally that there is a path forward for the Maverick thinks it was the right thing to do. I think that just build around Cooper Flagg, especially after that game last night against the Bucks. I think the proof is in the pudding. Let me get into all of that. I just gave you my take there. And then we got Cartier-Cliff coming in to give us a modified version of the show we were originally going to do, which is the first impressions of the first 10 games of the season. We get three questions of that. No mailbag today. I'm sorry, guys. The Nico Harrison stuff kind of messed up the show a little bit, but we will get to that next week.
0:56.1	I think that's it. Is there anything else? I don't know. Let's go.
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1:43.8	What's popping?
1:44.9	Real ones.
1:45.8	Logan Murdoch here, Roger Bell, there.
1:47.3	Howard Beck and the motherfucking cut, Cartier Cliff in a bit.
1:52.0	All right, we got a little action-pack show for you guys today.
1:54.7	We have our 10 game impressions.
1:59.1	But first, we're going to talk about the long, long path to the eventual firing that
2:05.9	has happened today of Nico Harrison.
2:09.3	Let's give some timeline before we get into what happened today.
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