Regardless that Mark Cuban publicly acknowledged he would sooner divorce his spouse than commerce Luka Doncic, the previous occurred.
Though Cuban isn’t in control of basketball operations on the Mavericks anymore, and he made that very clear following the commerce, Dallas legend Dirk Nowitzki doesn’t suppose Cuban’s off the hook utterly.
“I don’t suppose he has a lot affect anymore,” Nowitzki mentioned on 41 Campus. “He offered the vast majority of the Mavericks over a 12 months in the past—greater than 50%. Now, he’s only a minority proprietor. I feel he nonetheless owns a bit below 30%, however I doubt he has any actual decision-making energy anymore. Proper after the commerce, he mentioned that he had no thought it was taking place. And I consider him. All of us ought to. He was all the time Luka’s number-one fan. He even made an announcement as soon as that he would by no means commerce Luka… So it could actually shock me if he had all of the sudden modified his thoughts. That’s why I really consider he had no say on this resolution. I feel Nico [Harrison] and the brand new proprietor pulled this off with out involving him in any respect—or anybody else, for that matter. In fact, that’s powerful for Mark. However while you promote the vast majority of your group, it’s a must to anticipate that you simply received’t have management anymore. That’s simply the way it works. And over the previous 12 months, you would already see the group heading in a distinct path. Now we’re seeing the results of that.”
Though Dirk doesn’t blame Cuban instantly, he’s additionally explaining how one can’t anticipate issues to remain precisely the identical when you relinquish management.
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