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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...
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...
BENCHED. MICHAEL JORDAN, 39, comeback king of the NBA's Washington Wizards; following knee surgery; in Washington. Jordan decided to sit out the rest of the season after playing on reserve for seven postsurgery games...
...philosophically opposed to it. I understand that there are exceptions like Kobe Bryant and a few others. But I am opposed to it because there is so much to gain through the college experience. The money will be there and they will go to the NBA much better people, a bit more mature and I think a bit more ready to handle the emotional, psychological and social challenges that await them in the NBA. So if one can strengthen him or herself before making that leap, I think it is all the better. I look back on my four years...