Dallas fans have been repeating the same line since February like it’s the city’s anthem: Trading Luka? Genius move. And by ‘genius,’ they mean a full-on facepalm. For years, Texas trusted the franchise’s soul to Dirk Nowitzki. He lit the way, passed the torch to Luka Dončic and then GM Nico Harrison somehow blew it out like a birthday candle by shipping Luka to the Lakers. The fallout sparked a full-blown rift that pushed Dirk away too, forcing owner Patrick Dumont into scramble mode at the 2025 NBA Draft to win him back. When that Hail Mary failed? Dumont did the only thing left; he fired Nico Harrison.

Now Dirk Nowitzki got real about Nico’s firing on NBA on Prime and said:

“Well, I think there’s just too many distractions, too much going on to keep going this way. This move should have probably happened this summer, honestly. I didn’t want this negative energy and this black cloud over the Cooper Flag era. But here we are. Now, I just knew— I figured this fan base is a passionate and loyal fan base. I was lucky enough to experience it for 21 years, and I knew they weren’t just going to ‘get over it,’ as people say, or forget about it…It was very sad, it was very sad how that ended, and it feels like the fans feel like they got robbed of actually seeing the end—seeing this through, seeing Luka develop, you know, into hopefully a champion one day. And it feels like they never got to see the end to this. So this was… yeah, very, very heartbreaking.”

(This is a developing story…)