Related: “Everything the people in Dallas said about him is true” – Sam Mitchell believes Luka needs to improve his conditioning if he wants to prove his worth<\/a><\/p>\nCuban’s outbursts rattled his own team<\/p>\n
At the time, NBA Commissioner David Stern was growing increasingly frustrated with the successful businessman’s antics, seeing them as a distraction from the clean image he was determined to shape for the league.<\/p>\n
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Stern responded quickly, handing the team owner a $250,000 fine for his outbursts. But that wasn’t the only reaction. Cuban’s behavior even led the team’s star player, Nowitzki, to speak out.<\/p>\n
The 2007 MVP knew that games could already be stressful enough, and extra distractions from the sidelines \u2014 namely from Mark \u2014 didn’t help at all. In fact, it set a bad example for him and his fellow players as they tried to stay calm themselves.<\/p>\n
“We can’t lose our temper all the time on the court or off the court, and I think he’s (Cuban) got to learn that, too,”explained “Dirty.” “He’s got to improve in that area and not yell at the officials the whole game.”<\/p>\n
The German seven-footer also pointed out that this kind of behavior could, even if only subconsciously, affect how referees officiated the Mavs.<\/p>\n
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“The game starts and he’s already yelling at [the officials],” said Nowitzki. “He needs to learn how to control himself a little better. If somebody’s in your ear constantly… I’d be [ticked] off if I were an official.”<\/p>\n
According to ESPN, Dirk wasn’t the only Maverick who sometimes had issues with those antics. In the past, swingman Michael Finley and point guard Steve Nash reportedly even asked their team owner to watch games from a suite instead of his usual seat near the Mavericks’ bench \u2014 probably for the same reasons mentioned above.<\/p>\n
The request, if true, made sense. After all, as reported, Cuban’s behavior \u2014 from buying the Texan franchise to losing the NBA Finals in 2006 \u2014 had already cost him over $1.5 million in fines.<\/p>\n
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