Mavericks followers had a really excessive response to the staff buying and selling Luka Doncic and took purpose at Basic Supervisor Nico Harrison.
There have been protests exterior the stadium, individuals cancelling their season tickets and followers contained in the stadium have made says saying ‘Fireplace Nico’.
Within the Mavs second dwelling sport with out Luka, Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont was additionally loudly booed by the followers.
Doncic was requested concerning the response from the followers who clearly have quite a lot of love for him.
“I imply, yeah, I noticed,” Doncic mentioned. “Clearly, I noticed the followers. Clearly, I actually admire it. I’ve been there seven years, nearly seven years, and it was superb to expertise these followers and the love for me. I’ll at all times admire that. However now I believe we should always deal with the subsequent step, and the way in which Lakers followers acquired me right here was superb.”
Luka had a profitable debut and the way in which he clicked with LeBron and co. was nearly fast.
Head coach JJ Redick was impressed by what he noticed.
“He dealt with it nicely,” Redick mentioned. “And, you realize, realizing Luka, whether or not he’ll admit this or not, like there was most likely slightly little bit of nerves enjoying for the Lakers for the primary time. And the anticipation that our followers have, this constructing had, his teammates had, our teaching workers had. He kinda will get that, he sees that.
“And I believed he’s dealt with it very well and he performed very well tonight. He couldn’t make a 3 exterior of the primary one, however he simply, once more, it goes again to all our guys, they simply performed agenda-free basketball. What tonight was not, he didn’t make it about Luka. He made it about enjoying good basketball and enjoying Laker basketball.”
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