For reasons that no one can quite understand, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison and team CEO Rick Welts held a secret meeting with local media to relitigate the Luka Doncic trade one day before the Mavs’ win-or-go-home play-in tournament game. The two front office members failed to add any real color to their thinking behind the trade, but Welts did sneak in a confounding Warriors comparison.
DLLS Sports reporter Tim Cato was one of the 15 media members invited to this meeting where no recording equipment was allowed. In a follow-up podcast about what happened, Cato shared that Harrison repeated the silly mantra he’s parroted since the day Doncic was traded: “Defense wins championships.