Okay, so last night, before D-Day happened today, the photo started circulating of a young lad

sitting next to Patrick Dumont on the front row.

And we later learned that it was a 18, 19-year-old kid grew up in the Dallas area, and he went down to apologize to Dumont

for things that he had done previously in his young Mavericks career.

And that young lad joins us now.

His name is Nicholas.

Is it Dixon or Dickison? Dickison with an A.

Okay. Dickison with an A. Nicholas, how are you, man? Good, good. How are you?

We're good. Are you aware of the ticket? I am, yes. I don't personally listen much, but I am aware of who

you guys are. Yeah. Okay. That's fair enough. How old are you? I'm 18. 18. Are you a freshman at SMU? I am, yes. All right, very cool. And your family has had Mavs season tickets for a long time? Nearing 10 years just about, yeah. All right, and you sit down there pretty low, correct?

Uh, yeah, yeah.

Uh, fourth row, fifth row, something like that.

Okay, so a lot of people think that this whole thing was just too good to be true and a setup and like a publicity stunt, uh, to make Patrick Dumont look better.

Can you walk us through and tell us why it was nothing like that and this was an actual real moment?

Or you can tell us it was a stunt.

Yeah, you can tell us you're a crisis actor.

Right.

So first of all, that is absolutely baseless.

Me and Mr. Dumont had not, besides opening night, when we briefly interacted, we had not met until last night. Um, so I don't really know how I would be part of a publicity stunt if I, if I didn't know the guy. Um, but yeah, yeah, the, the publicity stunt idea, I don't even know where it came from.

Okay, real quick.

Only because the optics, okay, you're wearing a Luca Lakers jersey,

and I believe you are the complete source material to this point of anyone suggesting that Patrick has said

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