Word: cubans
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...Cuban is perhaps best known as the wild-eyed team owner who keeps lambasting basketball referees and getting fined. In January the NBA assessed Cuban the largest fine in its history--$500,000--for saying of the head of NBA officiating: "I wouldn't hire him to manage a Dairy Queen." Challenged by the company to manage a DQ for a day, Cuban gamely showed up at 6 a.m. to learn how to curl soft ice cream, then hustled to serve the 1,000 fans in line. Cuban briefly recruited basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman, inviting him to live...
These antics would not seem to recommend Cuban as a boss or business partner. But people who work with him seem mostly bemused by Mad Mark. He doesn't keep office hours. He constantly fires off ideas and instructions by e-mail--one passing along a fan's complaint about the hot dogs at Mavs games, the next negotiating an expansion of HDNet. Says Terdema Ussery, CEO of the Mavericks and HDNet: "When he first came, Mark used to say people have to decide if they can stay on this train because it moves very fast." Phil Garvin...
...When Cuban bought the money-losing Mavericks and an interest in the team's new arena for an NBA record price of $280 million two years ago, he was ridiculed for paying too much and trying to "buy" a championship with player perks. At the American Airlines Center, each player's locker is outfitted with a flat-screen TV, DVD player, VCR and stereo receiver. Cuban's embellishments to the arena, including a private underground court for pregame practices, added $2.5 million to construction costs. Aboard the team's 757, there is a weight room and a medical facility. Most...
...payoff has come quickly. After the longest dry spell in NBA play-off history, the Mavs are in the championship running for the second year in a row. The team's revenue is a closely guarded secret, but Cuban and his lieutenants claim that it has doubled in two years, and the Mavs have sold out 30 straight home games...
...Mavs have the broadest international following of any NBA team. Cuban signed the NBA's first Chinese player, 7-ft. 1-in. center Wang Zhizhi, and the first French player, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, as well as Canadian Steve Nash and Mexican Eduardo Najera. Fans across the world tuned into the first webcast of an NBA game last April and can get game previews at dallasmavericks.com in four languages: English, Spanish, German and Mandarin Chinese. Three times as many people click on the Chinese section as on the English...