NBA rumor exposes Nico Harrison's fate is doomed thanks to Mavericks disaster

While the Dallas Mavericks organization is still trying to figure out what hit them following the trade of Luka Doncic, it's time to start looking forward to the NBA Draft as a way to replace Kyrie Irving's production while he rehabs his ACL tear.

There's been talk about the Mavericks replacing Irving for the first few months of the season to make up for the team's lack of ball handling. The Mavs might get a gift if they land Egor Demin from BYU, but with Bill Duffy being the agent of Demin and Luka Doncic, there might be some beef between Duffy and Nico Harrison moving forward, and connections are everything in the NBA today.

Connections are how Anthony Davis landed in Dallas; Harrison has been good friends with Davis for years, and it's easy to see why Harrison chose Davis as his next big cash cow. In the end, the connections might end up costing Harrison altogether, with one Western Conference executive saying that Harrison will never see the light at the end of the tunnel once his days in Dallas are over.

Harrison's unfathomable move cost him his NBA legacy in the long run

With Mark Cuban handing the keys over to Patrick Dumont, he never knew exactly what Dumont was going to get himself into. Under his first year as Mavs Governor, he has seen the trade of his generational superstar, and the fanbase in a revolt with fans calling for Harrison's job. Cuban even tried to save Doncic, but it was too late; the unfathomable trade had already gone through.

As ESPN's Tim MacMahon says on "The Right Time with Bomani Jones," MacMahon states that one source he spoke to absolutely obliterated Harrison's tenure in the NBA (39:31 mark), saying Harrison might never see the light of day with any other team again.

"I was talking to somebody who's in an ownership group of another Western Conference recently and they basically said 'I hate to say it, but this is going to be his legacy,'" MacMahon said. "This trade is his legacy, like he's never going to work in the NBA again."

This goes hand and hand with other executives around the league talking about how much more the Mavs could've gotten for Doncic, with one person saying they would've given everything for Doncic. Other executives were furious about Harrison only speaking to Rob Pelinka and not giving another team a chance to bid for the Slovenian superstar.

This was something Mavs fans had always realized as calls to "fire Nico" were on display during Doncic's first time back at American Airlines Center. MacMahon added that it's the players that sell tickets, not the executives, and it's apparent that the noise from fans is getting to those executives, whether Harrison likes it or not.