This morning, ESPN's Tim MacMahon released his anticipated article about the dysfunction in the Mavs' front office that led to the dismissal of longtime trainer Casey Smith and the eventual trade of Luka Doncic. Shan and Bobby react to the article in the video above.
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00:00a big portion of this article is about the training staff yeah and their disagreements
00:20with each other um and how some of that tension has bled over and caused issues with the team as
00:27a whole but billsboro and belton i thought this was going to be all about casey smith but these two
00:33other names are in here for probably the majority of the article yeah i would say that i would say
00:36the casey smith portion is is the catalyst kind of the domino that got pushed over that changed
00:42everything is what this feels like um but the the casey smith issue like we read last hour where he
00:49was essentially fired over zoom by nico harrison while his mom was dying is that's a brutal look
00:55that's the most damning thing that's in here but after that yeah this this issue of billsboro and
00:59belton who were brought in to kind of replace casey smith replace some of the training staff
01:04and their tension with each other and then specifically billsboro's tension with luka
01:09donchich's body team is what really caused a lot of these issues a friend of lucas grumbled you don't
01:16perform like he does if you're a fat drunk pig referring to the way that they have painted uh
01:24lucas conduct conditioning why did dirk leave well it sounds like he was not happy with the
01:29dismissals of casey smith uh and then scott tomblin who was working with the mavs as well he leaves
01:37and becomes a part of dirk's foundation so dirk is the one it sounded like it was like okay i'm
01:43stepping away from this because of the moves that you're making towards people i love and respect yeah
01:47and it it 100 the mavs did not tell him you don't have a place here anymore um it doesn't sound like
01:53and and by the way there's very little in here about mark cuban's departure it's kind of i mean
01:57it's referenced and said that nico harrison won out and successfully cut him out of basketball ops
02:02but and mark cuban's tried to serve as the middle man between nico and luca when nico was not happy
02:10about luca's conditioning yeah like he wanted to he wanted to essentially be the mediator with nico
02:15luca and then billsboro and and make sure that everybody got on the same and he was his basically
02:20his services were declined
02:22you