'I thought they would stick to their word' | Mark Cuban reveals new details about the Mavs sale in Facebook comment section
Mark Cuban responded to a Facebook post criticizing him and revealed more information on the Mavs sale.
DALLAS — It's been nearly two months since Luka Doncic was traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers. The fallout from that deal has put the loyalty of MFFLs to the test. Despite stating he had nothing to do with the trade, former Mavs owner Mark Cuban has received flack from fans.
One such fan is Gavin Mulloy, the former event and venue manager of the Dallas Mavericks. On Friday, Mulloy posted to his personal Facebook, saying: "Cuban should be run out of Dallas."
Mulloy's criticism of Cuban is just a drop in the ocean of ire pointed at those tied to the Mavs organization, but it certainly caught the former owner's eye. Cuban replied to the post and comments under the post several times.
"I found it extremely interesting that someone would jump into my Facebook post on my personal page, who I'm not even friends with," Mulloy told WFAA. "I never in a million years thought Mark Cuban was gonna jump in a Facebook thread and start answering questions."
Under that seven-word post, Cuban disclosed information about the sale of the Mavericks that was previously private.
When Cuban bought the team in 2000, he paid $285 million. When he officially sold in 2024, he pocketed $3.5 billion. In the comments, Cuban said the Mavs weren't a moneymaker during his tenure.
"I made money 2 out of 23 years I was the majority owner. Lost hundreds of millions of dollars," Cuban said. Cuban still owns a minority stake in the team. However, his role in the Mavericks' basketball operations was diminished — a demotion the billionaire says he didn't sign up for.
"I fully expected to run basketball. The nba wouldn’t let me put it in the contract. They took it out," Cuban wrote.
"I thought [the Adelsons] would stick to their word because they didn’t know the first thing about running a team. Someone obviously changed their mind."
Cuban disclosed his lack of involvement in the organization's basketball operations during an interview with WFAA earlier this month. However, the NBA's involvement in ensuring Cuban's previous position was not contractually guaranteed was previously unknown.
Cuban was seemingly confident in keeping his basketball ops position after the sale. Immediately following the deal, he released a statement stating his intent to remain "an active partner" in the organization. However, in those Facebook comments, Cubans implies that the Adelson camp ousted him from the role.
Still, fans like Mulloy don't point their blame about the Luka trade in one direction, but rather the whole of Mavericks' decision-makers.
"Cuban, Nico and the Adelson-Dumont combo are all to blame in this," Mulloy told WFAA.
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reminder that cuban hired nico as gm
Cuban trying to get away from
Blame is so lame. You sold the team to them bro, and hired Nico.
>thought the Adelsons would stick to their word
Lol
>because they didn’t know the first thing about running a team.
Big LOL
Makes sense. The most plausible scenario is Nico convicing a clueless owner that this would somehow be a good move
the “championship games” comment makes it clear they don’t follow the league in anyway and likely no sports in general.
Cuban wanted to have his cake and eat it. What’s the logic though behind the NBA removing the basketball ops control clause in the contract.
Cuban is not this naive. He knew this was a possibility when his lawyers outlined the terms of the deal.
Face-saving bullshit.
Who could have ever imagined that **The Adelsons** wouldn’t be honest
We’re supposed to believe that billionaire Mark Cuban thought he would be running the team when there was no written guarantee?
The guy is so full of shit.
There’s something nefarious going on.
Cuban sold the team AND quietly quit Shark Tank around the exact same time. The reasons he gave don’t line up with his persona.
It’s really insane to expect this lmao, this is like asking the buyer to let you drive the car you just sold them whenever you want after the fact
Does Mark honestly expect us to believe that his expectation was that he would retain operational control over the organization after the sale of his ownership stake? The Adelsons may be dumb but that doesn’t even make sense lol
This is the biggest fucking lie ever. Oh wow ona fucking 5 billion dollar deal I thought control of basketball operations was a word of mouth thing. Fuck mark Cuban and his lying ass
As a businessman that was the dumbest mistake by him expecting the rich to uphold their word and not have it contractually binding. I don’t totally buy what he is saying.
A businessman like Cuban relying on a handshake deal is incredible
What an absolute clown lol.
Didn’t get it in writing, took the word of casino billionaires, and gave his baby over to people who don’t give AF about basketball.
Just call it what it is dude… you sold out and took the money, and now that they destroyed what you love you look like a clown.
Absolutely not blameless in this at all
Billionaire Casino owners didn’t stick to their word? Whaaaaat?!?!?
Calling bullshit on “lost hundreds of millions of dollars”.
There is no way he lost money running the Mavs.
Obviously it was very worth his time to own the team looking at the incredible return he got on his investment.
Self serving crybaby like all these billionaires.
Fuck Mark Cuban!
He still owns over 25% of the team or at least did at the time of sale.
He knew the Adelsons can’t be trusted. Anyone that knows politics knows how big of scumbags they are and Cuban knows politics.
He is just distancing himself from them because of how deeply disliked the trade was. If he runs for office, which he’s repeatedly hinted at, no chance of him winning with this much hatred behind him.
You can’t call yourself a smart businessman and say you weren’t involved when you’re 25% owner of the team. Either you sold it to them knowing they’re scum and had removed you from wording in the contact and you went forward anyways or you are trying to avoid blowback but were involved.
Either way, Cuban is either stupid or a weasel, but no matter what he’s a rich dickhead who likes attention.
Well if he really gave a fuck he wouldn’t have sold his right to control basketball operations
Spare me the sob story mark
Fuck off dickhead. Just trying to save face
I mean, why on Earth buy a basketball team (a rich guy flex) and not run it yourself? These guys are all egomaniacs, no way they’d let someone else be in control.
“We’re all looking at who’s responsible.”
I don’t get how Cuban lost money for 21 years when there is revenue sharing. If he’s losing money, then are the majority of the league owners losing money too?
The same Adelson that wrote this?!
“Those ghastly gatherings of radical Muslim and Black Lives Matter activists, ultra-progressives and career agitators were nothing short of street parties. These people are not our critics. They are our enemies, the ideological enablers in the West of those who would go to any length to eradicate us from the Middle East. And, as such, they should be dead to us” – Miriam Adelson
Thinking Trumpers would stick to their word. Even Cuban wouldn’t swallow that.
But remember when Cubes told those fans to sit down and shut up?
The Adelsons Cubed Cubes.
Mark Cuban has to own up to the fact that him selling the team ruined their franchise.
Imagine trusting the Adelson crime family
Pure evil on earth
Adelsons are trumpie turds
Based on the Celtics sale price,the Adelsons took him to the fucking cleaners. Cuban sold the Mavericks for a THIRD of what the team is worth.
They took his team, his title, his responsibilities and even his seats from him ***because he’s a bad businessman***.
He once had fortuitous timing and luck during the first internet bubble and he’s been cosplaying as a business genius on reality TV ever since.
Is this the IDF Adelsons?