Though Mark Cuban publicly acknowledged he would sooner divorce his spouse than commerce Luka Doncic, the previous occurred.
Though Cuban isn’t in command of basketball operations on the Mavericks anymore, and he made that very clear following the commerce, Dallas legend Dirk Nowitzki doesn’t suppose Cuban’s off the hook utterly.
“I don’t suppose he has a lot affect anymore,” Nowitzki mentioned on 41 Campus. “He offered nearly all of the Mavericks over a 12 months in the past—greater than 50%. Now, he’s only a minority proprietor. I believe he nonetheless owns somewhat underneath 30%, however I doubt he has any actual decision-making energy anymore. Proper after the commerce, he mentioned that he had no concept it was occurring. And I consider him. All of us ought to. He was all the time Luka’s number-one fan. He even made an announcement as soon as that he would by no means commerce Luka… So it might actually shock me if he had instantly modified his thoughts. That’s why I actually consider he had no say on this determination. I believe Nico [Harrison] and the brand new proprietor pulled this off with out involving him in any respect—or anybody else, for that matter. In fact, that’s robust for Mark. However while you promote nearly all of your crew, you must anticipate that you just received’t have management anymore. That’s simply the way it works. And over the previous 12 months, you could possibly already see the crew heading in a distinct course. Now we’re seeing the results of that.”
Though Dirk doesn’t blame Cuban straight, he’s additionally explaining how one can’t anticipate issues to remain precisely the identical for those who relinquish management.
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