Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars are in a MASSIVE legal fight!

Dallas, I know you’re focused on the Cowboys. I get it. I know you’re excited about the Mavericks and you don’t care about Nico Harrison and you think that Anthony Davis and Cooper Flag are the answer to your problems and everything’s going to be fine. I know that you are very happy with the Dallas Stars and you love hockey. You’re a great sports town. No question about it. You had a World Series win just a couple years ago with the Texas Rangers. You thought you had it done this year. than injuries derailed you. You’ve had so much success with the Cowboys, obviously over the years. I mean, if you’re into franchise appreciation, you’ve had all sorts of cool stuff. You know what I like in a four sports city? I like fighting. I like when teams are suing each other. There is a lawsuit going on right now between the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars. This is like when two brothers are suing each other, except they’re not really brothers. It’s not even that they’re step brothers. The best part about two teams sharing a facility is you think that everything is copathetic. You think that is Kumbaya, butterflies, and unicorns. And in fact, they don’t like each other. When I and the team I worked for was in the same stadium as the Dolphins, we hated the Dolphins. We hated everyone associated with the Dolphins. We felt like we were the ugly stepchild to the Dolphins and we were. The Dolphins hated us because we were a pain in the neck. We had to have grass on a field where the football players wanted we had to have turf where the football players wanted grass. All the different things. Well, here’s the lawsuit. These two teams playing in something called the American Airlines Center. You know that. You’ve watched games there. You’ve watched basketball. you’ve watched hockey. When two teams share a facility, you have an issue and uh I have something for you in Florida and wherever you are with the new stadium. There’s a part of a new stadium called capital expenditures and there’s something called a capital reserve fund. You’ve got to fund that capital reserve fund because stuff’s going to break in a new stadium and stuff’s going to get old in a new stadium and you’re going to need money to pay for a new scoreboard, new seats, a new paint job, a new roof. You’re going to need money to do big capital improvement projects. You’re going to want to build a better club behind the dugout. You’re going to want to build a club right at midcourt for in between periods for halftime of basketball. You’re going to want to do things different because when you design a new arena or a new stadium, you are designing it for what you think is going to happen and you’re not going to be right. You are going to say that we’re ahead of our time. We’re making this. It’s the it’s the most energyefficient ballpark. There’s charging systems everywhere. there is fewer ticket windows because people are going to use their phones. Well, David, the fact that you have two ticket windows is too many. The point is you try to be ahead of the curve, but you’re not. Therefore, you have to have money put aside. You have to have money available in order to fix and improve the stadium. The fight comes when you’ve got two tenants in the building and you need those tenants to agree on the capital improvements, the what form they will take, how much they will cost, who will pay for them, when the timeline will be for construction. The Dallas Mavericks are owned by the Aden family. We’ve talked about that. Remember, it’s the son-in-law Patrick Dumont who is the governor, not Mark Cuban, not Miriam Adles, because she’s an octogenarian Trumploving woman and the NBA didn’t want that cirus. But she’s the one who controls it. You couldn’t name the Stars owner. His name is Tom Gaglardi. You just whatever he’s he is who he is, but he owns the Stars. They’re suing each other because what they want is they want to figure out one who’s going to be in charge. The Stars say the Mavericks are are thinking they’re in charge, but they want to be in charge. The Maverick Mavericks are saying the Stars are holding us up. We’re ready to spend money here and the Stars are stopping us. We’re in charge. When you have a joint venture with two teams, the way we did with the St. Louis Cardinals at spring training, we ran spring training with the Cardinals, Marlins Cardinals, Expose Cardinals, and then Marlins Cardinals. Watch the documentary. What does it mean? It means you better have an agreement in place that makes it very simple about who’s in charge. You better have an agreement in place that makes it very simple about who pays for what. You better have an agreement in place that will not be misinterpreted because that’s what lawsuits are. When people look at an agreement that they thought that the other side understood and they now believe the other side does not understand. So, you go to a third party. You go to a judge or a jury to get them to say, “No, no, we agree with you or we disagree with you as to how you are reading this agreement or what the responsibilities are for the Dallas Stars or the Dallas Mavericks. They’re always about the money, who’s paying for what, when, who’s got the control, how because no one likes to spend money without control. You try as parents to give money to your kids and not control. You try. It’s the right thing to do. However, in business when you are buying a company, can you imagine what we’ve talked about? All these people investing billions of dollars in a franchise and saying, “No, no, you go ahead, Genie Bus. You keep control of the of the Lakers. I’ll just give you $10 billion.” It’s preposterous. It doesn’t happen. This lawsuit um and this counter lawsuit are both interesting to me because what has to happen is a settlement because with the lawsuit happening it will lead to inaction in the arena. It will actually stop what they are trying to accomplish that will acrude to the benefit of both sides believe it or not. So what do I think they do? I think they sue, they counter sue, they settle, and they agree that the Mavericks are going to take control because what the Mavericks are going to do under Aden, they’re just going to throw money at the problem. They’re going to say to the Stars, “Hey, the way this is going to work is the Stars, you’re moving anyway.” The Mavericks want to move, too. They want to figure out casinos. They want to They have a much bigger play, the Aden family, than the family who owns the Stars. The Stars are looking at a new facility, new mixed use. They may be going to Plano, Texas. The point is the Stars are going to have to go away. The Mavericks are going to make the Stars go away and they’re going to do it with money. So, that is what I would say is going to be the future of this lawsuit, that the Mavericks just don’t want to be bothered by this. And it’s called a nuisance settlement. A nuisance settlements is when you give money to someone not because you agree with them, but because they’re a pain in the butt and you don’t want any part of them. And I assume that the Adles want no part of anything hockey related. We’ll wait to see how that goes. As a matter of fact, Kok, we won’t wait to see. We’ll make it an official wait to see. Wait to see is when we tell you something’s going to happen. If it does, fine. If it doesn’t, fine. But we’ll revisit it and it’ll be on our document at davidsamsonpodcast.com. So Koka, please put this in the document. Wait to see. The Mavericks and Stars will settle the lawsuit and the Mavericks will take charge of the project. Wait to see.

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7 comments

  3. I hope this is a lesson every family owned team considers before selling. Ever since Cuban sold the Mavs it's been a mess and it goes deeper than the Luka trade

  5. It’s obviously done for cost savings in having a cities NHL and NBA teams share an arena. But the sight lines for NBA at the baselines where they have to fill in the seats from the extra room that hockey requires are horrible . Most college basketball arenas have much better sight lines in those baseline areas as they were made strictly for basketball. If I had paid 10 billion for the Lakers I would also want to build a basketball only arena.

  6. Just the NBA being their typical duhk head selves. And they hate the NHL because they are competition. If I'm the city or state I'd tell them you're not getting one dime of public money unless both of you share it.

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