Check out this excerpt from an article entitled Whistled While They Worked in the May 30th issue of ESPN The Magazine. ESPN’s Kenny Mayne interviews a panel of sports figures notorious for running afoul of the rules, including Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Here’s how the article comes to its conclusion:
Mayne: Are you worried about fallout because you spoke candidly about referees?
Cuban: There’s always a risk of my getting fined. But in this case there’s no solid ground.
Mayne: What if in the transactions it said, “Mark Cuban fined $100,000 for talking to that bastard Kenny Mayne from Seattle, the city we stripped of a franchise”?
Cuban: That would be money well spent.
In the words of Jeffrey Spicoli, “Awesome. Totally awesome.”
Thank you, Mark Cuban.
Go Mavs.
One of two owners (Paul ALlen) to vote against relocation of the Sonics. I’m a Mavs fan right now! GO DIRK!
I’m an investment analysis and when Cuban was trying to make a back door bid to buy the company that owns the Braves, I got a chance to talk with him on the phone and he is just an awesome, awesome guy. Not afraid to say anything.