Mark Cuban has at all times been one of many NBA’s most outspoken and hands-on homeowners, however even he admits not all the pieces has gone the best way he anticipated in the case of the Dallas Mavericks.
Cuban offered 73 % of the crew to the Adelson household in 2023, a transfer that shifted management of the franchise after greater than twenty years underneath his watch.
Whereas he nonetheless maintains a task within the group, the longtime proprietor admitted that he would have dealt with the method in another way.
“I don’t remorse promoting the crew, I remorse how I did it,” Cuban just lately revealed on the DLLS Podcast. “Would I nonetheless promote the crew? Sure, for all the explanations that I’ve stated 100 instances. Would I do it the identical method? Completely not. I’d’ve put it out to bid, however I didn’t so it doesn’t matter. I bought alongside nice with them, they gave me their man of the yr award.”
Despite the fact that Cuban nonetheless has a seat on the desk, he admitted the phrases of the deal restricted his capacity to stay instantly concerned with the gamers and day-to-day operations.
“The contractual phrases didn’t prove the best way, the contract didn’t result in what I anticipated to occur,” Cuban stated.
That admission indicators simply how a lot issues have modified in Dallas. The Mavericks now enter their first full season with out Luka Doncic, who was traded for Anthony Davis.
New primary general choose Cooper Flagg joins Davis in main a franchise that appears very totally different from the one Cuban constructed his popularity on.
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