Tim MacMahon Talks Luka Dončić, Nico Harrison, and his New Book "The Wonder Boy" | 4.23

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Wave Originals

Music, Sports, News

4.8 • 12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On today’s episode, Tim MacMahon of ESPN joins Bomani Jones to discuss his new book The Wonder Boy. They start off the show discussing Dirk Nowitzki's relationship with Luka Dončić and why Nowitzki was against the trade happening (7:40). Tim continues to share how both Rick Carlisle and Mark Cuban lost the Dallas Mavericks locker room which led to other roster changes including acquiring Kristaps Porziņģis (16:03). They round out the show with Tim saying why the Kyrie Irving trade was initially controversial but ending up working out great for Dallas (30:48) and if there is anything Nico Harrison can do to recover his image after trading away Luka Dončić? (38:18) Link to Tim MacMahon's book The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tim-macmahon/the-wonder-boy/9781538740712/ . . . Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media: http://lnk.to/therighttime Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Support the Show: Discover faster, more reliable search with Perplexity today. Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at perplexity.com! https://pplx.ai/bomani-jones Download the DraftKings Pick Six app NOW and use code BOMANI. Better payouts. Bigger wins. Only with Pick6 from DraftKings. The Crown is yours. Go to zbiotics.com/BOMANI to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use BOMANI at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original presented by perplexity.
0:11.1	My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube.
0:16.5	Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. He only give us four stars. I'm inclined to
0:21.2	believe you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest join us. He works for ESPN
0:26.8	covering the NBA, but he has got a book out now called The Wonder Boy. It is a look at the
0:31.5	life in times. A Luca Dachich, Tim McMahon. How are you, sir?
0:35.0	Howdy, partner? I appreciate you having me. I'm here in Oklahoma
0:37.6	City where I understand you have a lineage of legendary portion. Yeah, my mom's there.
0:44.1	Actually, the last time I was there was last May. Oh, you gave my mom an honorary degree. I didn't
0:49.5	think I would live long enough to see my mom on one page and uh toby keith on the other side yeah i was
0:55.6	there with you all that well i was there until you know i got a little mad at him about five years
1:02.0	ago and i haven't come back yet but i can't i'm the one tech i was the one texas fan in a whole o you
1:06.7	household and that doesn't that didn't go over so well as so many places but uh you have written
1:13.3	this book about luke i want to talk about the book before we get into like what's going on with
1:17.4	them as a team right now but i found it to be interesting that you said that the book came about
1:22.1	because somebody called brian winhurst about writing this book and bryan sent him over your way
1:26.2	that is the whole boy hall of fame move right there that That's my guy, Wendy. He lets me come on the hoop collector
1:32.3	with him on a regular basis. So he gave me, now, I really think what happened, though, was
1:36.5	Wendy didn't want to hear me bitching and moaning and whining about you. You're on my turf
1:40.3	now, buddy. So yeah, he hooked it up. He's a facilitator. He's a distributor.
1:46.1	You know, the man gets his buckets. He's like Luca. He can give you 34, but he's going to get
1:51.1	double figure assist, too. Now, I was curious, though, that, or I guess somewhat surprised that
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