The Mavericks are 2-7 and sitting dead last in the West entering Saturday night. They’ve already lost at home to the 1-8 Wizards. They lost at home to a Pelicans team that was on a back-to-back without Zion Williamson. They nearly gave one away to the 1-7 Pacers, too.
Right now, Dallas has the worst offensive rating in the NBA. And it’s not even close.
This start has turned up the temperature on general manager Nico Harrison’s chair. ESPN’s Tim MacMahon said on the Howdy Partners podcast that people around the league are flat-out asking the same thing.
“A legitimate question right now is: Is Nico Harrison’s job in serious jeopardy?” MacMahon said. “It is the first question that people are asking.”
The context is obvious. Harrison stunned the league when he traded Luka Doncic to the Lakers in February. The return was headlined by Anthony Davis. Doncic is now thriving in Los Angeles. Davis is hurt again.
Harrison’s roster is banged up and mismatched. And Dallas looks like a team still searching for an identity.
Tim Cowlishaw of the Dallas Morning News wrote that Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont may have to listen to fans soon. They’ve been chanting for Harrison to be dismissed since the moment the Doncic deal went through.
It’s early. But this start is getting attention — and so is the front office that built this version of the Mavericks.
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