The Dallas Mavericks have moved on from Nico Harrison. Team owner Patrick Dumont penned a letter on Tuesday, confirming the firing of Harrison from the general manager position. The decision came after the team’s abysmal 3-8 start to the 2025-26 NBA season. The Mavs have struggled early in the year due to injuries to Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis.
Davis has appeared in five games for the Mavs this season, averaging 20.8 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists. AD suffered a calf injury in his fifth game of the year. Since then, he’s missed five games in a row. His unavailability isn’t what the organization was hoping for ahead of the campaign. Irving, on the other hand, is expected to miss a significant chunk of the season as he’s recovering from a torn ACL injury.
After Harrison was fired, rumors about a potential trade started to emerge. Several executives around the league believe that it would be better for the Mavs to move on from Davis and focus on rookie forward Cooper Flagg.
“You have Flagg, but you’re old and you don’t own your picks,” an anonymous Western Conference executive said. “[They have to] be comfortable with taking two steps back if that’s the necessary path. Be patient. They need to lose this year, but I don’t see Dumont being comfortable with taking a step back. It’s not natural as a new owner.”
He said that the Mavericks can’t afford to have two timelines with Davis and Flagg. The future should be with the former Duke star.
“You don’t go two timelines anymore,” a West executive said. “You say, ‘We’re going to take what we can get [for Davis].’ At this point, I’m not sure what they can get.”
Mark Cuban pushes for the Mavericks to hire a Pistons executive as Harrison’s replacement
The Mavericks have named assistant general managers Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi as co-interim general managers as the management search for Harrison’s replacement. The franchise should go after Dennis Lindsey, the senior vice president of basketball operations for the Detroit Pistons, according to minority owner Mark Cuban.
Lindsey was part of the Mavs during the 2023-24 season as a senior advisor. NBA insider Marc Stein reported about this on Tuesday via X.
There has already been a push among some of the organization's influential voices to try to bring back former Harrison adviser Dennis Lindsey from Detroit, sources tell @TheSteinLine, but Dallas is first expected to install an interim front office after Harrison's departure. https://t.co/YZJaQfZatp
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 11, 2025
Aside from his experience with the Pistons, Lindsey has also worked with other organizations. He started as a video coordinator with the Houston Rockets in 1996 and worked his way to become the assistant manager. He continued his career as an executive in 2007 with the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant general manager.
In 2012, he became the general manager of the Utah Jazz before joining the Pistons’ front office.
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