Upon firing president of basketball operations and general manager Nico Harrison, the Mavericks will make Michael Finley and Matt Riccari their interim co-GMs, reports Tina Nguyen of FOX 32 Chicago (Twitter link).
Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon of ESPN (Twitter link) confirm the report, indicating that Finley and Riccardi will be promoted during a 10:30 am Central time meeting with Mavs governor Patrick Dumont.
A two-time All-Star and NBA champion as a player, Finley played in the NBA from 1995-2010 before transitioning to a front office role. He was hired by the Mavericks in 2012 and was promoted to VP of basketball operations in 2018. He later became the team’s assistant GM and VP of player personnel in 2021.
Riccardi, a native of the Dallas area, worked with the Nets for 13 years in scouting and executive roles, then was hired by the Mavericks in 2022 as their senior director of pro personnel. He was promoted during the summer of 2023 to an assistant GM position and was the Mavs’ representative in the drawing room on draft lottery night in May when the team won the No. 1 overall pick.
Marc Stein reported this morning that former Mavs advisor and current Pistons executive Dennis Lindsey could be a target for Dallas, while Chris Mannix of SI.com suggested there has been chatter about the possibility of head coach Jason Kidd moving to a front office role.
For now, Finley and Riccardi will run the show, and it’s possible one or both will receive consideration for the permanent job.
While it’s somewhat rare for a team to employ co-GMs, it’s not unprecedented. For instance, the Suns designated James Jones and Trevor Bukstein as co-GMs when they made a front office change just before the start of the 2018/19 season, then named Jones their lone, permanent head of basketball operations at the end of that season.
Co-GM is similiar to Co-King monarch.. how often has that worked out? Might as well make ChatGPT the new GM and save some money for the fans.
They should trade cooper Flagg for luka as their first order of business
U joke but they do need to look into trading AD as soon as they can. Not now of course because his trade value is shot to hell, but soon.
So they have 1 guy to blame in case they do make another bad deal and you have the other as back up plan. The new GMs need to not puul Mavs fans leg by claiming Irving is coming back this year.
Ready, set, go! And the trade rumor mill bolts out of the starting blocks.
You want to move on from AD. Knicks will take him …
No problema lols.
We can go Towns straight up ….. now you can move Gafford.
I like AD and Mitch together. Knicks will be best defensive team in L.