Old Nelson talks about Doncic: When you have such a player, you should let him play for you for the rest of your life

June 9th, Mavericks' meritorious coach Nelson won the 2025 Chuck Daley Lifetime Achievement Award. Before the G2 game in the finals today, Nelson held a press conference. Old Nelson talks about the Mavericks’ deal to send Doncic away.

The old Nelson said: "In fact, I want everyone to know that I'm wearing Luca's shoes, his new Nike's new shoes. I'm wearing these shoes to protest (the Mavericks) to trade him. I think it's a very serious mistake for the Dallas Mavericks to trade him, and I want everyone to know this idea."

"Because I've learned from the best people. I used to be Cardinal Orr. Bach played for a year. Under his guidance, I worked with Tommy Heinthorne and Bill Russell. In my career, I had the opportunity (to communicate with Auerbach) because I always went to the game early and sat down to discuss philosophy with the Cardinal. His philosophy was that when you have a great player, like Bill Russell, Haflicke, Sam Jones, you must not lose this player. You have to let him Play for the team for a lifetime. You're going to retire his jersey number and pay tribute to this player, that's my philosophy. "

" If you look back at the players I've coached over the years, Dirk Nowitzki, Sidney Moncliff and all the others, Steve Nash is the exception because we should have signed him but didn't do it. It might have ruined my relationship with Mark Cuban, because someone guaranteed me at the time We will sign Nash. I thought we would win championships in the next few years. I thought we had a chance to win three or four championships in a row, but losing Nash has hindered our development. "

" But anyway, my philosophy has always been to respect great players, not trade them, but to add other roster configurations around this player to get him and your team to the best of it."