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Mark Cuban claims he lost 'hundreds of millions' owning the Dallas Mavericks
Sports Illustrated ^ | Mar 29, 2025 | Austin Veazey

Posted on 03/30/2025 1:11:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Mark Cuban has been brutally honest about his displeasure with the Dallas Mavericks since he sold his majority share to the Adelson family in December 2023. He thought he would still be in charge of basketball operations, but it wasn't allowed to be in the contract when he sold the team, and the Adelsons decided to hand the reins to Nico Harrison.

Cuban voiced his frustrations in a recent Facebook comment about his role with the team, but he also revealed that owning the Mavericks wasn't exactly a fruitful endeavor.

"You didn't say a word when [your bonus] showed up in your account. Did you? Sure looked good when we made it to the finals, didn't it?" Cuban responded to a post from a former employee saying he should be run out of Dallas. "I did every damn thing I could for 23 years. Kept prices lower than not only any NBA team, but lower than college teams too. I had $2 tickets for multiple years. When I sold there were always 4k tickets under $29. I made money 2 out of 23 years I was the majority owner. Lost hundreds of millions of dollars. And you kept on collecting your salary. So my dirty dollars didn't get a peep out of you those 23 years. Or when you got your check every two weeks.

Or when you got your bonus. Go back to what I said when I sold the team. I didnt want my kids and family to have to deal with people like you. I honestly got tired of the growing number of fans who became pricks on social media. People exactly like you. I paid your salary. I paid you a bonus I didn't have to give you.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: abyss; austinveazey; businessfailure; dallas; dallasmavericks; lousybusinessman; markcuban; mavericks; nba; nicoharrison; poormepoorme; sportsillustrated; texas
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1 posted on 03/30/2025 1:11:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

no... You lost 100s of millions for supporting the Mavericks...


2 posted on 03/30/2025 1:14:21 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: MinorityRepublican

He may have had operating losses in many years, but, did he make a profit when he sold the team? If so, how much? Certainly the franchise value went up quite a bit during the years he owned the team.


3 posted on 03/30/2025 1:16:07 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe you should have tried surrounding yourself with strong, intelligent women.


4 posted on 03/30/2025 1:16:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Isn’t this what sports franchises are for?


5 posted on 03/30/2025 1:25:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Texas Eagle

The way the Mavs play he did.


6 posted on 03/30/2025 1:31:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not a very good shark;-)


7 posted on 03/30/2025 1:31:30 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: BenLurkin
Isn’t this what sports franchises are for?

Supposed to be an expensive "hobby".

8 posted on 03/30/2025 1:33:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
From the article: ...Cuban responded to a post from a former employee saying he should be run out of Dallas... "I made money 2 out of 23 years I was the majority owner. Lost hundreds of millions of dollars. And you kept on collecting your salary. So my dirty dollars didn't get a peep out of you those 23 years. Or when you got your check every two weeks."

So... the owner was willing to lose money and gets angry when he expected his employees to suffer similarly, and they disagree?

9 posted on 03/30/2025 1:39:31 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sure. And the douchebag thinks we should all support his woke, socialist way of doing things and run the country that way.


10 posted on 03/30/2025 1:41:47 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Good question, so I asked the MS Copilot:

“Mark Cuban purchased the Dallas Mavericks in January 2000 for $285 million. He sold a majority stake in the team to the Adelson and Dumont families in December 2023, with the sale valued at approximately $3.5 billion.”

That’s a twelve-fold increase in realized value in just under 4 years. The few hundred million he may have lost operating the team while he owned it can be considered investment maintenance expense... or even a rounding error.


11 posted on 03/30/2025 1:43:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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I didn't watch the All Star Game. But it was half @$$ed effort by the players.

The point is that Cuban sold his team at the right time.

12 posted on 03/30/2025 1:43:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

100s of millions? Stop whining, Msrk. You sold your share for 3.5 billion. More than 12 times what you paid for it. A few 100 million of operating losses over the years is chump change in the scheme of things


13 posted on 03/30/2025 1:46:44 PM PDT by chuckee
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The team is only worth 3.5 billion because the new owners are trying to build a new casino. So far no luck, but they’re trying to persuade the legislature.


14 posted on 03/30/2025 1:51:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Mark Cuban claims he lost 'hundreds of millions' owning the Dallas Mavericks

And here I thought he was a smart businessman.

15 posted on 03/30/2025 1:56:49 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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No one had a gun to his head.

16 posted on 03/30/2025 1:57:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“That’s a twelve-fold increase in realized value in just under 4 years.”

It was 23 years, 2000 to 2023.


17 posted on 03/30/2025 2:03:18 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: MinorityRepublican

How to put 1 million dollars into your bank account…put 50 million dollars into an F1 team and wait 3 years.


18 posted on 03/30/2025 2:05:58 PM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: Texas Eagle

LOL!


19 posted on 03/30/2025 2:10:56 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That is how sports work. Very few teams, maybe the Savannah Bananas, make an operating profit. Everything is leveraged on future value of the team. I don’t think this is sustainable but what do I know.


20 posted on 03/30/2025 2:18:09 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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