Cuban threatens to sell team

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06-21-2006, 04:10 AM

Jackson

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Cuban threatens to sell team

"James_" <_no_@spam.com> wrote in message
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I think the Mavs will come out and get a huge lead in the first that the

heat

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don't recover from. I expect the mavs to play with a lot more intensity,

and I

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don't give the heat much of a chance to win tonight. So much for my predition ability

No shit Sherlock.

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06-21-2006, 07:53 PM

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O Lord, we beseech thee, in Thy Infinite Mercy: Please
*please* prevent the League from making *any* of Cuban's
changes so that this clown will sell the team. Please, God,
make it true. Save your humble supplicants from any more Cuban.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...8vLYF?slug=ap-n bafinals-cuban&prov=ap&type=lgns Asked Monday night in an interview on Dallas television station WFAA if he would consider selling the team if he didn't see some of the league changes he wants, Cuban snapped his fingers and said "In a heartbeat. Yeah, if they drive me that crazy, in a heartbeat. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and not seeing any different results. If they don't want to make things better, then what am I here for?" Cuban practically turned getting fined into an art form after going from an owner of season tickets to owning the Mavericks. One comment about him not hiring the league's head of officiating to manage a Dairy Queen landed Cuban as a manager for a day; he also donned pinstripes and officiated a Harlem Globetrotters game. As his team improved, there were fewer stunts. He remained a visible, vocal critic, though, enough for some to suggest that his team ends up not getting the benefit of the doubt from officials. Mavs supporters have brought that up again in the wake of three players getting suspended this postseason, with Stackhouse the most recent. Dallas had a chance to win without its top reserve, leading by 11 points early and by four late in the fourth quarter. Miami ended up winning on a pair of free throws by Dwyane Wade with 1.9 seconds left in overtime. Cuban had several gripes about the play that sent Wade to the line, starting with Wade not being whistled for a collision that left Dallas' Jason Terry on the floor. "I guess that's not a call," Cuban said. "I guess that's not a foul." An assistant coach later showed Cuban that Wade appeared to commit a backcourt violation before the contact with Terry. It's hard to tell on replays because of the giant championship trophy logo at midcourt. "My understanding from the rule book is, if you are going to catch the ball in the backcourt, you have to be in the backcourt to catch it," Cuban said. Between Wade's free throws, Dallas was charged its final timeout. The Mavs insist they were only talking about calling it after Wade's second foul shot so they could set up a final play and move the ball to the frontcourt. "Josh Howard goes to Joe DeRosa and not only once, but twice asks for a timeout," crew chief Joey Crawford told a pool reporter. "Forced to call it, simple as that." Something else Mavericks followers are quick to note: Wade alone took 25 free throws, the same number as the entire Dallas team. The Heat took a total of 49 free throws. "I don't know," Cuban said of the wide discrepancy. "I guess they got fouled more."

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06-21-2006, 09:08 PM

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O Lord, we beseech thee, in Thy Infinite Mercy: Please *please* prevent the League from making *any* of Cuban's changes so that this clown will sell the team. Please, God, make it true. Save your humble supplicants from any more Cuban.

Amen.

Venger

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07-03-2006, 08:03 AM

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On 20 Jun 2006 09:46:29 EDT, "s_knight8" <s_knight8nospam@hotmail.com> blurted:

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again andnot seeing any different results. If they don't want to make things better,then what am I here for?"

It's supposed to be more like "The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting different results."

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08-01-2006, 07:04 PM

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Lee Watkins wrote:

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An assistant coach later showed Cuban that Wade appeared to commit a backcourt violation before the contact with Terry. It's hard to tell on replays because of the giant championship trophy logo at midcourt. "My understanding from the rule book is, if you are going to catch the ball in the backcourt, you have to be in the backcourt to catch it," Cuban said.

the rule book is vague on this point.

Actually it's not and Cuban was just wrong. I'm sure that was pointed out
in a later post, but just in case...

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08-01-2006, 07:09 PM

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Patricia Bender wrote:

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Lee Watkins <spamisforsandwiches-lwatkins@falcon.tamucc.edu> wrote:

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...8vLYF?slug=ap-n bafinals-cuban&prov=ap&type=lgns Something else Mavericks followers are quick to note: Wade alone took 25 free throws, the same number as the entire Dallas team. The Heat took a total of 49 free throws. "I don't know," Cuban said of the wide discrepancy. "I guess they got fouled more."pay no mind to the fact that the team intentionally fouled shaq quite abit through the game.but cuban never seemed the type to let facts get in the way of a good story.

Well, some facts: there were only 4 Hack-A-Shaqs and just 2 of those resulted in free throws and those 2 came late in the 4th quarter when Miami already had a huge free throw advantage. (And the other 2 came in overtime and didn't result in Dallas getting in the penalty.)

Another fact: there were, as there always are, a lot more intentional fouls
of Shaq than just the "Hack a Shaqs." His poor FT shooting leads to him
getting intentionally fouled an order of magnitude more than anybody else
does. Since the original only mentions intentionals not sure why you
change it to HAS's.

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"In the end, it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want
about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes
winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can
win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a
little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish
last." -- Sandy Koufax

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