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Mark Cuban: Shorten the game to 40 minutes. The same as almost every other basketball league in the world. It would reduce injuries and ad inventory. But it would increase ratings to compensate.
Mark Cuban, who sold the Mavericks at a $3.5 billion valuation, has maintained that he had a handshake agreement to remain in charge of the Mavericks’ basketball decisions after the sale. That didn’t happen. Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont instead leaned on general manager and president of basketball operations Nico Harrison to run the Mavericks’ front office until he fired Harrison nearly a year ago. In May, Dumont hired Masai Ujiri as Dallas’ chief basketball decision-maker. Cuban has said he regrets selling control of the Mavericks to the Adelson and Dumont families, but he still regularly attends home games. He sat in his usual spot along the baseline for Saturday’s home opener.
Mark Cuban said he learned some “hard lessons” from how things played out after he decided to sell his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson and Dumont families in 2023. In an appearance on the “Build or Break” podcast released Tuesday, Cuban told host Daniel Lubetzky: “I’m a really trusting partner. If I shake your hand, I mean it. So, yeah, that was a first for me.”
Although Cuban’s lawyers withdrew the petition a month later, the legal flare-up was further proof of how messy the ownership transition had gotten. Asked about the state of his relationship with Cuban, Dumont chose not to fire any return shots. “I love Mark,” Dumont said. “I consider him a great family friend. He is the most passionate Mavs fan I’ve ever met. I hope we can do him proud.”
Dumont confirmed that he plans to buy more of Cuban’s stake in the team before the end of 2027. “We will look to do that,” Dumont said. “Our plan is to look to do that over time.”
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Derek Carr: "Get me excited about what's happening in Vegas." Mark Cuban: "Las Vegas, they're going to be the world's team. Whoever has a franchise in Las Vegas, you are the world's team because it's the one truly tourist destination from people around the world. So you're going to get a lot of people coming from everywhere that are excited about baseball that may not have been exposed to it before. So I think there's a lot of reasons for A's fans and particularly new A's fans in Vegas to be excited. I think they're going to do a lot of great things and the stadium is just insane."
David Carr: "What is your lowest Laker moment [as Mavs owner]?" Mark Cuban: "Early on after I bought the team, I think it was my second year. We hadn't beat the Lakers in LA in like 12 years or something crazy. And we were up 30 going into the fourth quarter and I'm thinking, yeah boy, we got this. Who loses a 30-point lead? I never seen that. Kobe Bryant got hot and it was over. It was the worst, it was the worst."
Right after the announcement, Mark Cuban — who had been a bit of an adversary over the past year — tweeted “Congrats Pablo.” About him and everyone else who weighed in over the past year, do you feel any sense of vindication? Pablo Torre: I loved seeing that from Mark, because I loved talking to him. I have this sort of podcast brain disease, I guess, where my main thought was, “I wonder if you’d come back on the show.” So that was my first reaction. My second thought was, I really hope that people don’t think that the only way that you can trust reporting like this is if the entity or the institution that you’re investigating takes their hand and raises it and says, ‘Yes, the journalist was right.’ But I also hope that people can evaluate the work on its merits and learn to trust that our process is rigorous in ways that are bordering on unhealthily obsessive, which is a separate problem, but hopefully one that they can trust.
Channeling his inner Shark Tank investor, Torre pitched Cuban directly. He offered the billionaire a percentage of his show in exchange for one unlimited episode the two could record together, no time limit and no restrictions on the conversation. “I just want Mark back,” Torre said, framing the offer as a genuine olive branch rather than a taunt. He explained that both men, deep down, actually want to sit across from each other again, and he made a point of thanking Cuban for reaching out after the ruling.
Mark Cuban: Congrats Pablo.
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Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban has teamed up with four other billionaires—hedge fund manager William von Mueffling, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalists Steve Jurvetson and Vin Ryan—to argue in an amicus brief that their enormous wealth shouldn’t provide them more political influence than other Americans and that a Maine campaign finance law limiting contributions to super political action committees (super PACs) is both sensible and constitutional. “Because of their wealth,” the brief says of the billionaires, “amici have the capacity to be extraordinarily influential in America’s political system. But amici didn’t ask for this power. And they don’t want it.”
Pivoting to new bosses is nothing new for the six-time All-Star. "The only constant in life is change," a source close to Doncic told ESPN. "He's had five owners now." Indeed, Doncic's former team, the Dallas Mavericks, were sold by Mark Cuban to Patrick Dumont and the Adelson family not long before he was traded to L.A. And since arriving to the Lakers, the franchise's deed has passed hands from Buss to Walter and now to Iger and Kushner.
Tom Haberstroh: Luka Doncic has now played for 5 different owners in <3 years: DAL- Mark Cuban DAL- The Adelson family LAL- Jeanie Buss LAL- Mark Walter LAL- Kushner/Iger
Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban’s legal dispute with franchise majority owner Patrick Dumont has changed courts — and a judge has ordered the case to be resolved through arbitration. Though the Mavericks say they are legally prohibited from discussing specifics of the case, one media report’s interpretation of phrasing in a court filing has compelled the franchise to reemphasize its intention to build a new arena and entertainment district on the former site of Valley View Mall. “We’re still fully committed to Valley View and are doing our due diligence,” Mavericks chief communications officer Gina Miller said. “We are 100% focused on doing the due diligence necessary to get this deal done.”