Cuban ranks San Antonio fans as Bottom of The Barrel

[Gatita]

Apologies if this has been posted before. I hate Cuban with a passion and I haven't been to a Spurs game in years (live on the east coast), but I really hope he is wrong and we are not that coarse and profane. His wife was heckled? Someone please tell me he is full of .

Spurs-Mavs notebook: Cuban ranks S.A.'s faithful at bottom

Web Posted: 05/21/2006 12:00 AM CDT
Johnny Ludden
Express-News Staff Writer

Dallas owner Mark Cuban, who has accomplished his goal of inflaming the rivalry between the Spurs and Mavericks, called San Antonio fans the NBA's "rudest" in his Web blog Saturday.


"Some cities are great and heckle with style and humor," Cuban wrote on blogmaverick.com. "Then there are cities with zero sense of humor. ... The worst? San Antonio.

"There isn't even a close (second). The bleacher bums have filtered down to the lower bowl, and they are living up to their past."

Cuban said his pregnant wife was "verbally abused" at the AT&T Center last week.

"It didn't represent the city or Spurs fans," he wrote. "But that doesn't change the fact that they are the rudest and curse the most."

Cuban expects to hear more of the same when he returns to the AT&T Center on Monday for Game 7. He said the heckling doesn't bother him. His recent comments describing the city's River Walk as an "ugly-ass, muddy-watered thing" and calling Tim Duncan a "crybaby," he said, were intended to improve the rivalry between the two teams and draw national interest.

"The River Walk river is nasty," Cuban wrote Saturday. "I know it. Everyone who lives in San Antonio knows it. I said it. I just know that on crowded nights, everyone who walks that thing is afraid to death that some drunk is going to stumble by and knock them into the water. It's that nasty.

"I mean come on folks. They can clean up Lake Erie, but not the River Walk?"

"Fighting words, right?" Cuban continued. "Of course not. It's meaningless. Unless it comes from a rival."

Cuban answers Pop: Even though Cuban doesn't think much of the River Walk, that doesn't mean he isn't willing to pay it another visit.

After Cuban's comments on a radio show Thursday, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich suggested the Mavericks owner come back to San Antonio for a margarita so "he could look at life a little more maturely."

Responding to an e-mail sent Saturday, Cuban said he's open to the idea.

"Tell Pop I will take him up on the margarita this summer if he wants," Cuban wrote. "I would love to get his ideas about marketing the NBA and making the Spurs and Mavs a series that no one in America can live without watching. 's Last Resort is my spot on the River Walk, and I'm happy to let him buy!"

Centers without attention: Popovich said he hasn't played Nazr Mohammed and Rasho Nesterovic because of the matchup problems Dallas presents. And, to a lesser degree, because neither center contributed much in the limited time he was on the floor in the series' first 1 1/2 games.

"When they have gotten time, it hasn't been enough for them to really produce," Popovich said. "This particular series, it's difficult for big guys to guard Dallas' perimeter. It's tough to put a big guy on Dirk (Nowitzki).

"The way the rules are, offense really has an advantage, obviously. He has a huge advantage when big guys try to stay with him, so I can't afford to get somebody like Tim Duncan in foul trouble, and the other big guys don't have a shot with that."

Man bites dog: In a series characterized by complaints about official decisions, referee and otherwise, Cuban actually praised the job the referees did in Game 6 on Friday.

That did not mean he did not suggest to the NBA that it look at an offensive tactic employed by Duncan that Cuban claims gives him an illegal advantage.

"The officials did a good job (Friday)," Cuban wrote in an e-mail. "The only thing we are having them look at is the fact Tim Duncan slaps away the hand of his defender in the post, and that's supposed to be an automatic foul. When he does it, I think he scores or gets fouled like 70 percent of the time; and when he doesn't, it's like 30 percent of the time.

"It's a brilliant move on his part, seriously. (The) defender is leaning against him and just the quick slap of the hand away or into the body of the defender has the defender lean forward with his chest, and Duncan is so quick, he is already there to get the contact before the defender can respond and get the foul, or to get ahead of him and get space for a better shot. It's impressive.

"If the league agrees it's a foul, great. If not. Not. Either way, we go to battle Monday night, ready to go."



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Meh!

[TonyC]

Uh, NO, we wouldnt. At least I wouldnt. I like to think i have some measure of decorum and class. This man has none and shows it everyday. Maybe you would, but I hope not, one Cuban in this world is enough.

The man has plenty of class...don't player hate. He almost a billionaire. He could buy the spurs anytime he wanted...then sell them to Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City, Anchorage if he wanted to. IT's arivalry now babies...get used to it.

[ShoogarBear]

The man has plenty of class...don't player hate. He almost a billionaire. He could buy the spurs anytime he wanted...then sell them to Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City, Anchorage if he wanted to. IT's arivalry now babies...get used to it.

Great argument.

"He has plenty of class . . . He's a billionaire!"

Him and Paris Hilton. Class City.

[Obstructed_View]

The man has plenty of class...don't player hate. He almost a billionaire. He could buy the spurs anytime he wanted...then sell them to Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City, Anchorage if he wanted to. IT's arivalry now babies...get used to it.

Again, it's not a rivalry if you never win.

(That "envy" picture would be appropriate for someone to post right about now)

[Spurs Dynasty]

The man has plenty of class...don't player hate. He almost a billionaire. He could buy the spurs anytime he wanted...then sell them to Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City, Anchorage if he wanted to. IT's arivalry now babies...get used to it.

So, by your definition money=class ?

[TonyC]

Great argument.

"He has plenty of class . . . He's a billionaire!"

Him and Paris Hilton. Class City.

I was just making a point. You guys should be worrying about your gameplan and stop worrying about our owner. He's in Dallas to stay and you're going to be seeing a lot more of him.........ha ha ha ha

[Obstructed_View]

So, by your definition money=class ?

Consider the source. He just called Cuban a player.

[rayray2k8]

I see what his true intentions are.
He wants this series to turn into that laker, king rivalry.
Well its working, because its getting there.

[Obstructed_View]

I was just making a point. You guys should be worrying about your gameplan and stop worrying about our owner. He's in Dallas to stay and you're going to be seeing a lot more of him.........ha ha ha ha

Considering the Spurs keep beating him, I hope so. By the way, message board people only design the game plan for the Mavericks, so we have some free time to post up.

[Spurs Dynasty]

Consider the source. He just called Cuban a player.

yeah, was gonna hit that one next.

[ShoogarBear]

I was just making a point. You guys should be worrying about your gameplan and stop worrying about our owner. He's in Dallas to stay and you're going to be seeing a lot more of him.........ha ha ha ha

If he was in Dallas to stay, that would be perfect. It's just that he keeps bringing his lame act elsewhere, where fans have more self-respect.

[themvp]

I´m sorry, but what is this margarita ?

[Spurs Dynasty]

I am wondering, is this uproar what CUban really wants, or do you think he feels he pushed it a little bit? Does he really want national scrutiny on his antics as he is now getting?

I dont think he wants to lose support, and to a degree, I supported the Mavs second to the Spurs, but that is winging its way out the window. Do you think overall he has succeeded and we have played right into his hands?

[Solid D]

Hey chief, you forgot to say that he's slapping away one of the two hands Damp has on him every trip into the post, which is a defensive foul 100% of the time.

Spot-on.

LeBron does it too, although sometimes, it looks more like a game of red-rover where the biggest, strongest kid always breaks through.

[SPURS REP]

I believe it was Finley who said his family could not go to the AAA because they were being treated like crap.
I'm sure it was to build on the rivalry.

[Gatita]

I´m sorry, but what is this margarita ?

Seriously?

Tequila
Triple Sec
Lime Juice





*Sorry to get off topic*

[Spurologist]

"The only thing we are having them look at is the fact Tim Duncan slaps away the hand of his defender in the post, and that's supposed to be an automatic foul.

WTF. Damp/Diop have two hands pushing on TD's back every time he's in the post. I thought that was an automatic foul. If the refs would call that a foul, mav's bigs would be fouled out by the first half. If the refs called a good game, say so and STFU

[themvp]

Seriously?

Tequila
Triple Sec
Lime Juice





*Sorry to get off topic*

Yes, seriously

Thanks.

[Future41534]

Cuban has to be one of the most popular/media attentive owners ever. If hes you owner you love ,him.He has done so much for this franchise and truly loves the game of basketball unlike most owners.Sometimes I just love to make fun of Cubes even though I'm a mav fan because hes such a fatass and wears the dorkiest clothes in the regular season.Hes shaped up his style a bit in the playoffs though.So admit it, if the spurs had cuban as your owner and was on your, youd love him ,mavs would hate him

[Spurs Dynasty]

Cuban has to be one of the most popular/media attentive owners ever. If hes you owner you love ,him.He has done so much for this franchise and truly loves the game of basketball unlike most owners.Sometimes I just love to make fun of Cubes even though I'm a mav fan because hes such a fatass and wears the dorkiest clothes in the regular season.Hes shaped up his style a bit in the playoffs though.So admit it, if the spurs had cuban as your owner and was on your, youd love him ,mavs would hate him

Well, I cant speak for all Spurs fans, but I feel that day would be the darkest day in Spurs history. I doubt it would ever happen anyway, so no worries. I could never "love" and owner like that.

[Future41534]

Check that, you would love him if he had never owned the mavs, and bought the spurs first.

[Spurs Dynasty]

Check that, you would love him if he had never owned the mavs, and bought the sours first.

LOL you psychics are amazing ! What am I feeling and thinking now?

[TonyC]

I like the 99.5 Kiss Spurs commercial...."Go for cuatro." Real creative!

[ShoogarBear]

I have Redskin season tickets and I think Dan Synder is an embarassing prick.

You can't begin to guess what I'd think if Cuban owned the Spurs.

[Future41534]

Hes fat but he turned our team around