“I made a lot of mistakes in the process, and I’ll leave it at that,” Cuban said in a teaser for his upcoming interview on former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s podcast.

DALLAS — Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban confirmed to WFAA on Monday that he regrets selling the Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson family.

Cuban initially made the admission on an upcoming episode of Intersections, a Dallas Morning News-associated podcast hosted by former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and commercial real estate entrepreneur Kyle Waldrep. A teaser clip from Cuban’s upcoming appearance on the podcast was shared to Instagram on Monday.

“I don’t regret selling. I regret who I sold to,” Cuban said in a teaser clip released Monday. “I made a lot of mistakes in the process, and I’ll leave it at that.”

When reached out to by WFAA and asked to expand on his comments, Cuban confirmed to WFAA that he said the quote and that it accurately reflected his sentiments. He additionally confirmed to WFAA earlier Dallas Morning News reporting that notes that, while Cuban still retains a 27% ownership stake in the team, the Adelson family has an option to buy an additional 20% of the team out of his stake over the course of the next 18 months.

This is by no means the first time Cuban has expressed remorse over the fallout of his transaction with the Adelsons.

In an August 2025 interview on the DLLS Mavs podcast, a content partner of WFAA’s, Cuban admitted he would do the sale differently if he could redo it.

“I don’t regret selling the team. I regret how I did it,” Cuban said at the time. “Would I still sell the team? Yes, for all the same reasons I’ve said 100 times. Would I do it the same way? Absolutely not.”

When asked at the time what he would change, Cuban responded to the DLLS hosts that he’d “put it out to bid,” opening the team to more potential buyers. He did not, however, outright express regret at the time over selling to the Adelsons, specifically.

“I’m still a Mavs fan for life and that’s what matters,” Cuban said at the time. “Not being the final decision maker on personnel, on the court and off — that’s the biggest change. And I’ll say it again — Patrick [Dumont] really wants to win, and he’s put in a lot of time to learn more.”

During an appearance earlier this month on the Adam Friedland Show, Cuban also talked about his decision to sell the team to the Adelson family more than two years ago.

“It was just to the point where it just wasn’t as much fun anymore,” Cuban said. “I wanted to do this healthcare thing [Cost Plus Drugs], and that was starting to take off.”

Cuban also told Friedland that he left money on the table when he sold the team.

“Financially it was not a good move for me,” he said. “I made mistakes. And I did it that way because I expected that I would continue to run the team. And that’s just not what happened.”

In a March 2025 interview with WFAA, Cuban offered his first extended comments about the Mavericks’ trade of Luka Doncic, which took place just over a year after he sold the team. In that sit-down with WFAA’s Jonah Javad, he said the return that the Mavericks got for Doncic — a deal he has long maintained he was not involved with — wasn’t large enough in his eyes.

“Just get a better deal,” he told Javad.

Cuban sold his majority stake to the Adelson family, who own Las Vegas Sands Corp., in November 2023, in an agreement in the valuation range of $3.5 billion. The NBA Board of Governors signed off on the deal the following month.