Chuck Cooperstein on the firing of Nico Harrison, what’s next for the Mavs & more

KRLD-FM / 105.3 The Fan

The Mavs radio play-by-play voice, Chuck Cooperstein, discussed the Mavericks’ firing of GM Nico Harrison with Shan, RJ, and Bobby. Cooperstein talked about Dumont’s statement to the fans, the people taking over Nico’s general manager role, what’s next for the Mavs, and more.

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00:00and if a fan base gets unhappy enough they will make moves to to ultimately give in to what the

00:21fan base is clamoring for i'm not going to go that far because i think this was the rare exception

00:27uh you we've never seen a trade like this in the history of sports at least in the modern history

00:32of sports and maybe if babe ruth was sent to the yankees during the age of the internet then

00:38things would have been different but this is this was the most unusual trade that's frankly that's

00:45ever been made uh and so there was the there was a far greater opportunity for uh for management to

00:53hear the complaints of fans i mean fans but you know fans are always going to complain unless

00:59their team ultimately is raising a trophy so um i don't necessarily believe that especially in the

01:06air uh the era of uh major corporate ownership uh i don't i just don't see that happening very much

01:14uh but i think it's still worthy of uh you know fans efforts to make their feelings known

01:21um you know listen the only way you can really make your feelings uh you know hit ownership is

01:27with uh is with your decision making if you decide that you're not going to watch games or going to

01:33go to games or going to spend money on merchandise and and you know parking and concessions and all

01:39those things that that teams you know rely on uh not quite as much as you know getting 76 billion

01:46dollars over the next 11 years from television but if you're getting if you're getting hit like that

01:51i mean businesses will pay attention and so from that standpoint that you know this definitely was

01:59a win for the fan but i don't see it as a long term uh change of direction as far as how

02:06ownership regards the decision making that they make

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