Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison has been subject to death threats and racist remarks following the team’s trade of Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers last Saturday.
ESPN’s Tim MacMahon reported the news on Friday’s edition of NBA Today.
“This is a heartbroken fanbase, and there have been some very unfortunate developments regarding that anger,” MacMahon began.
“Nico Harrison has been subjected to death threats. There have been racial epithets included in some of those. Certainly, security’s going to be beefed up. There will be protests outside the arena early. Those are planned. Security will absolutely be beefed up.”
“Nico Harrison is not going to be in his normal seat in the stands. There’s no reason to subject him to that kind of a security risk.”
“So that has been definitely an unfortunate part of this whole storyline. Obviously, the fans’ anger—hey, they have every right to feel like they got a generational superstar ripped away from them—but clearly, lines have been crossed.”
Fans are clearly hurt after the 25-year-old Dončić, a five-time All-NBA first-team player who just led the Mavs to the NBA Finals, was sent to L.A. in one of the most shocking sports trades in history.
