(WBAP/KLIF) — WFAA News 8 -The Dallas Mavericks issued an invite to a hand-selected group of media members on Monday, offering them the chance to attend a “small media roundtable discussion” on Tuesday with Mavs CEO Rick Welts and General Manager Nico Harrison.
The invite, sent out with less than 24 hours’ notice, beckoned individual members of the press — not the organizations with whom they are affiliated — to attend a gathering at 10 a.m. with Harrison and Welts. The invite to the event, which is being held in the media boardroom on the platinum level of the American Airlines Center, promised “brief remarks followed by Q&A” with the top brass in the Mavericks organization.
The invite also clearly stipulated that no cameras or recording devices would be allowed in the meeting.
Instead, the team said it would provide a transcript of the discussion to attending media members after the fact.
It is not yet clear what the statement Welts and Harrison are set to provide will address, why the meeting is not being held as a press conference, or why no cameras or recording devices are being allowed.
The decision is just the latest in a series of questionable actions involving the Mavericks.
But could this latest move lead to real answers for fans who’ve been pleading for explanations behind it all? That, too, is to be determined. WFAA will have coverage of the meeting immediately after its conclusion, and will host a live special on our streaming app WFAA+ at noon, detailing what transpired during the event.
Interest in what may come out of the gathering is understandably high.
Aside from a quick question he answered on the blue carpet at the Mavs Ball charity gala about how his month of February went, Tuesday’s meeting represents just the second time Harrison will have addressed the media since his late-night trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Feb. 1. His only previous public address of the trade came the day after news of it broke, during a pre-game press conference ahead of a Mavericks game in Cleveland.
Harrison, notably, did not attend the press conference in Dallas during which his trade acquisitions Anthony Davis, Max Christie and Caleb Martin were introduced to the media.
His silence has become only more noticeable as fans have continued to chant “Fire Nico!” — everywhere, anywhere, whenever — in the two-and-a-half months since the trade came to pass.
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