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    In Manu we STILL trust! rayray2k8's Avatar
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    Found something that I thought was amusing.
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    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2506302

    Dirk Nowitzki has all but acknowledged that Mark Cuban's antics are a distraction to the Dallas Mavericks, saying that the team's owner must "learn to control himself as well as the players do."

    In a stories posted Friday night on the Web sites of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News, Nowitzki was quoted as saying, "We can't lose our temper all the time on the court or off the court, and I think he's got to learn that, too. He's got to improve in that area and not yell at the officials the whole game."

    The newspapers also reported that Nowitzki, Michael Finley and Steve Nash had asked Cuban in the past about watching games from a suite, rather than from his usual seat near the Mavericks' bench.

    "The game starts and he's already yelling at [the officials]," Nowitzki was quoted as saying. "He needs to learn how to control himself a little better. If somebody's in your ear constantly. ... I'd be [ticked] off if I were an official."

    Cuban was fined $250,000 for his outbursts about the officiating during Game 5 of the NBA Finals, and commissioner David Stern said he was tired of off-court antics drawing attention from the series.

    Cuban has been fined at least $1.65 million since buying the team in January 2000. The exact total of his punishment tab isn't known because the league doesn't always publicize action against team owners. Cuban has said he matches every dollar he is fined with a charitable donation.

    Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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    The Timeless One Leetonidas's Avatar
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    We can't lose our temper all the time on the court or off the court
    But you can lose your temper all over an exercise bike?

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    about time

    now he can say back off or he will bolt

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    I wonder if instead of fining Cuban money for every game he spends yelling at the refs and getting out of hand, Stern could send him to a luxury suite for the next game or two. That would probably keep him a little more quiet. Fining Cuban does no good. He just pays it and goes right on yelling!

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    ing hilarious.

    1) Watching them squabble is lovely

    2) How in the is Dirk giving advice on controlling his temper? He went off on Erika last year and his locker room incident this year was on national television as well....I'm not sure he's in any position to tell people how to control there tempers.

    3) I can't wait to see Cu 's response, which I'm sure will be politically correct b/c Dirk has him by the balls.

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    Spur-taaaa TDMVPDPOY's Avatar
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    excerise bike > dirks tantrum

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    What incident happened?

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    This is just a case of your damned if you do and you're damned if you don't for silly Spurs fans. If Dirk hadn't said a thing then all Mavs are the same and they all folow Cuban like a herd of sheep. So Dirk does say something about Cuban's antics, something I believe FINLEY mentioned in the past, and he's still ridiculed. Why don't you go laugh at your draft pick and his off-court problems. I remember reading a thread about how some Spurs fan on here queried that he could possibly be a dirk-stopper...haha, yeah...oh-kay.

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    Why don't you go laugh at your draft pick
    You mean laugh at our second round pick in the 2007 draft?

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    Veteran exstatic's Avatar
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    I wonder if instead of fining Cuban money for every game he spends yelling at the refs and getting out of hand, Stern could send him to a luxury suite for the next game or two. That would probably keep him a little more quiet. Fining Cuban does no good. He just pays it and goes right on yelling!
    The only thing that can keep him from his seat is a suspension that keeps him out of the arena, a la Marge Schott when she owned the Reds.

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    Veteran exstatic's Avatar
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    This is just a case of your damned if you do and you're damned if you don't for silly Spurs fans. If Dirk hadn't said a thing then all Mavs are the same and they all folow Cuban like a herd of sheep. So Dirk does say something about Cuban's antics, something I believe FINLEY mentioned in the past, and he's still ridiculed. Why don't you go laugh at your draft pick and his off-court problems. I remember reading a thread about how some Spurs fan on here queried that he could possibly be a dirk-stopper...haha, yeah...oh-kay.
    You do know that:

    a) he has been traded.
    b) he was never "our" pick, he was picked for Milwaukee.
    c) instead of settling for a 59 pick in a ty draft, SA probably has one in the 40s in a deep draft next year.

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    I think if the Mavs as a whole just concentrate on bball instead of the other crap, they'll be even better.

    Just a thought.

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    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ TheSanityAnnex's Avatar
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    But you can lose your temper all over an exercise bike?
    Please.....................comparing what Dirk did after the last game in the Finals and what Cuban does constantly is quite a stretch.

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    Chapter 1456 of Mav Fan is an Idiot.

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    And Dirk is absolutely right. Now AJ needs to step up and tell Cuban to STFU.

    And Josh Howard should tell Cuban to stop rubbing up against him.

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    And Dirk is absolutely right. Now AJ needs to step up and tell Cuban to STFU.
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    Yeah...because AJ didn't know what Cuban was like when he agreed to be his coach.


    Last I checked AJ was doing a pretty good job of blaming it on the refs himself.

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    Last I checked AJ was doing a pretty good job of blaming it on the refs himself.
    I'd love to see a quote that supports this.

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    Veteran exstatic's Avatar
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    I seem to recall something about "bear hug defense" being allowed...

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    Yeah Avery is a hypocrite but so what. His mistake was saying that we don't complain about the refs. Cuban got a little carried away with calling out San Antonio and some of the crazy things he says on his blog so that is why I think Nowitzki brought it up.

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    Why don't you go laugh at your draft pick and his off-court problems. I remember reading a thread about how some Spurs fan on here queried that he could possibly be a dirk-stopper...haha, yeah...oh-kay.



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    The only thing that can keep him from his seat is a suspension that keeps him out of the arena, a la Marge Schott when she owned the Reds.

    Yeah, but watching him yell from a luxury box AND NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR HIM that would be funny to watch!!

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    Yeah Avery is a hypocrite but so what. His mistake was saying that we don't complain about the refs. Cuban got a little carried away with calling out San Antonio and some of the crazy things he says on his blog so that is why I think Nowitzki brought it up.
    Is that why they end up fining his ugly ass all the time, Because he only gets carried away a little?

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    Of course, Dirk is right about the effeminate attention Cuban.

    Cuban's theatre of the absurd, Avery's whining and ing, and the Mavs' Finals' choking (and near choking vs Spurs) shows what a ing dysfunctional org the Mavs are.

    oh, almost forgot, the EXTREMELY LOW quality of the MAvs trolls here brings the dysfunctionality into close focus!
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