MARK CUBAN MADE THE MAVERICKS RELEVANT. BUT IS HIS LEGACY ROTTEN? | LEE ESCOBEDO
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✍️ Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is remembered for his unconventional approach to basketball, but his legacy is also marked by controversy and mistakes.
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👉 Cuban brought a championship to the Mavericks in 2011
👉 He made the team relevant and increased their popularity
👉 He was criticized for letting Steve Nash and Jalen Brunson leave
👉 He hired a general manager who was not experienced
👉 He was criticized for his handling of free agency
👉 He lacked diversity in his front office
👉 He sold the team to Miriam Adelson, a ruthless businesswoman
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The businessman shaped Dallas into an NBA force after years in the wilderness. But problems with the team only worsened when he sold upThe year 2000 cracked open like a glow stick, flooding Dallas with new money – and a new Mavericks owner, who had made his money selling his streaming site just before the dot-com crash. Like the 1990s Mavs, Mark Cuban wasn’t polished – and he sure as hell wasn’t subtle. He was brash and argumentative, clashed with refs, and clapped too hard whenever Dirk Nowitzki buried a three. The internet age, in the form of Cuban, crashed courtside when he bought the team for $285m. Gone was the era of distant owners watching occasional games from the executive boxes: the fan was in control of the team now. Cuban had hacked reality.Cuban’s thesis was simple: never play by their rules. The Mavs were his start-up. He improved nutrition, upgraded hotels for road games, bought a team plane, filled lockers with PlayStations, and fought the NBA’s lawyers with the defiance of a rapper clapping off hundos in a strip club. This went against the NBA’s old boys’ club. For all his dot-com cache, Cuban was punk in practice. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/11/mark-cuban-made-the-mavericks-relevant-but-is-his-legacy-rotten