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There was an exodus of disgruntled Dallas Mavericks fans astatine American Airlines Center connected Monday nighttime arsenic information was seen escorting respective radical retired of the arena aft they called for wide manager Nico Harrison’s occupation pursuing the Luka Doncic trade.
Security escorted retired respective fans that either held up "Fire Nico" signs oregon shouted retired the operation during the Mavericks’ one-point nonaccomplishment to the Sacramento Kings.
During a karaoke conception wherever fans sang on to Whitney Houston’s "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," 1 antheral was shown connected the Jumbotron mouthing the operation "Fire Nico."
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The camera rapidly panned away.
That aforesaid antheral was besides seen holding a motion with the aforesaid phrasing. He and different antheral holding the motion were aboriginal seen being escorted distant from their seats successful a video shared connected societal media.
According to The Dallas Morning News, 2 much fans were escorted retired successful the 4th quarter. Each time, the escorts were met by boos from fans successful the surrounding area.
Doncic led the NBA successful scoring past play and helped the Mavericks scope an NBA Finals appearance, but was dealt distant to the Los Angeles Lakers successful 1 of the astir arguable trades successful caller memory.
Fans person since expressed their disdain for Harrison, the mastermind down the trade, prompting the enactment to reportedly summation his information earlier Saturday’s crippled implicit the weekend.
The Lakers acquired Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris, portion the Mavericks got Anthony Davis, Max Christie and Los Angeles' 2029 first-round pick. To implicit the deal, the Utah Jazz acquired Jalen Hood-Schifino and 2 second-round picks.
But Davis sustained a groin wounded successful his debut for Dallas and volition beryllium sidelined astatine slightest done the All-Star break.
Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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