Hypothetically, if Damian Lillard and his agent don’t like Micah Nori yelling about defense, by midseason, Lillard can just go to Tom Dundon and say “who cares if you fire him halfway through the year, hire another guy for a million bucks and you’re still expending far fewer resources for that position than anyone in the league has for a decade or more.” It’s maybe twenty years since someone’s been paid so little.
At your work, why would you listen to a CEO who’s making not just less money than you, but has less years in their contract than yours? Micah Nori is in a battle for control, and he has no arms. They cut his arms off and claimed it was a harmless act of good business.
Micah Nori might be thinking right now: “How am I going to get Ja Morant and Dame Lillard to care about defense?” And there’s a world where Nori says, “You know what, I’m not going to fight it, I’m going to just try to get Ja and Dame on my side, so I can get a longer deal. I’ve got to get my foot in the door, I can’t lose this. Whatever you want to do, guys, I’m never going to talk about defense. Let’s just outscore people and have fun, and they’ll come up with some strategies that tries to hide them as best as they can.
