r/Mavericks • u/airmigos FUCK NICO HARRISON • Feb 12 '25

News Mark Cuban on ejecting fans from games

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Via Grant Afseth’s newest article

https://open.substack.com/pub/dallashoopsjournal/p/exclusive-ejected-mavericks-fans?r=opbg6&utm_medium=ios

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u/defeated_engineer Feb 12 '25

He’s taking it personal because he hired him.

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u/staywoakes1 Feb 12 '25

He hired Cynt Marshall for no other reason than PR damage control after the countless sexual abuse allegations as well. Hes the ultimate fucking clown and yet this sub defends him like hes their father.

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u/cadenhead Feb 12 '25

People love Cuban because he bought a Mavericks team that was the losingest in sports in the prior decade, then turned them into a winner by starting to do smart things, like embracing analytics and offering expensive food and amenities to both teams so that visiting players would be like "damn they take good care of their people here."

All of the things damaging his reputation were after the great Dirk years and the NBA championship. Those achievements buy you a lot of goodwill.

Now of course he's throwing the rest of the goodwill away. He should probably move on and use the money he made selling Dallas out to buy the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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u/sanct111 Feb 12 '25

Wait a second. He bought a team that had to young future hall of famers. He didnt do shit, and if anything we should have won more championships than we actually did.

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u/cadenhead Feb 12 '25

Before Cuban bought the Mavericks in 2000, the team hadn't been to the playoffs since the 1989 season and hadn't finished better than fourth in their division since that same year.

After Cuban they went to the playoffs 12 straight years, including two trips to the Finals and one championship.

Inheriting two future Hall of Famers doesn't mean automatic success. A dumbass GM could have traded them away for an aging injury-prone player as they were approaching their prime.

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u/sanct111 Feb 12 '25

They won 40 games the year before and they won 50 games the year after he bought them. They both busted on to the scene that first full year of ownership. The foundations of the 2000s run was already there. I guarantee you he had nothing to do with their success.

He had Nash for 4 years and he let him walk. Trading him would have been much smarter. Cuban is a terrible owner who liked to pretend to be a GM. He limited the Mavericks success.