Nico Harrison might not be a familiar name to a lot of NBA fans.
He’s not a veteran general manager. He’s not a rising talent evaluator who has come up through the ranks and he’s not a former NBA player.
However, what the new Mavericks president of basketball operations has working for him might surprise you.
Harrison, who has been a Nike executive for nearly two decades and has been vice president of North America basketball operations since 2016, is one of the most well-known movers and shakers in the world of NBA player relations.