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Cuban in a league without a salary cap will be fun to watch.
So will your favorite guy to hate get out of basketball if he is successful in buying the Cubs?
The rumored price for the Cubs is around 600 Million. The Mavs are reported to be worth around $500 million.
Will he sell the Mavs to buy the Cubs or will he split time.
I'm not sure he can get enough approval votes from the league owners to be allowed to purchase the Cubs.
Apparently Bud Selig and some of his croonies don't like innovative and outspoken owners like Cube. So he may lobby against him???
Cuban in a league without a salary cap will be fun to watch.
I will burn my Cubs hat and never cheer for them again if he becomes owner.
As a Cards fan, this would both crack me up and piss me off at the same time.
I think Cuban did this because he just realized that "Cub" is in his last name. Cubes owns the Cubs. Lets hope that his middle name doesn't turn out to be "Spursula."
Hope he gets them, he would be good for baseball imo
Cuban don't buy the Cubs! Please Stevie make Holt an offer he can't refuse. At long last we would have an owner who truly understands basketball. Our Tight fisted owner only knows how to win. Letting Nash and Finley go, for nothing, were strokes of genius. Please come to SA so we too can glow in your brilliance.
no way in the traditional owners allow a wildcard loud mouth by any MLB team much less a storied franchist like the Cubs. Cuban will never own a MLB team.
Why? It's not like the Cubs previous and current owners have done in 100 years!
Maybe Dallas hasn't won a le since Cuban bought the team, but look at the Mavericks before Cuban's ownership and look at them now.
Chokers or not, Dallas is a contender for the crown year in and year out. I'd like to see what he can do with my beloved Cubbies.
I don't care that he is the owner of an NBA team that I hate. I've been hoping for this ever since the rumors started.
Rumor has it Tony LaRussa will be replaced with Don Nelson if this goes through.
Do you know anything about basketball? Nash's cap-hold was replaced with Dampier. Without Dampier, we have to double-team Tim Duncan. Without Dampier, we don't beat the Spurs.
Finley signed his contract under the previous CBA. They saved $50 million in lux tax payments by cutting him. I don't recall needing him to get to the Finals either.
The Spurs are any Western team's biggest obstacle to the Finals. Trading a PG that can't guard Tony Parker in exchange for a big to help contain Tim Duncan is a pretty good swap in my book. Not having to deal with luxury tax payments in Finley's case is pretty nice too. We've gone further without them than we ever did with them.
With Dampier, you haven't won a le, and you lost a guy that ended up winning 2 MVP's. But giving up Finley had to be done.
The Mavs were never going to beat the Spurs with Nash at PG and not having the salary slot to get a big like Damp. No, we haven't won a le, but Diop and Dampier are an absolute necessity if you want to have a prayer of beating San Antonio. We don't have to double-team him all the time and we can stay home on your shooters. The Suns don't have the interior defenders necessary to contain or neutralize Duncan.
With Dampier, you haven't won a le, and you lost a guy that ended up winning 2 MVP's. But giving up Finley had to be done.
As for Nash's two MVPs, whatever. He's not even the best PG in the game. Kobe is the best wing/guard, Tim is the best big. Anything else is just media masturbation. I don't much care about Dirk's MVP either. I suppose it would be boring to give it to Duncan or Kobe year after year.
Funny, neither are the Suns!
Paging Mr Parker...Mr. Parker, please raise the finals MVP trophy...the one that counts!
I guess Findog is talking about 2006 when Dampier contained Tim for 34 and 14. In retropect you should be wishing the refs had called that last foul on Tim so you wouldn't have humiliated yourselves against a very ordinary Eastern rep. I know Nash can't cover Tony but name a point guard who can--no one. Most teams puts someone else on him. If I were Cuban I'd offer Harris and Howard for Nash. Nash would make Dampier look like semi-Amare.
Turns out Finley didn't need the Mavs to win a le.
Who is better than Nash at the pg spot? The only guy I would even say is a healthy Baron Davis. I would take Nash over Irk in a heartbeat. Clutcher, tougher, better leader, has more heart, and he makes his teamates better even when they were missing Amare last season. Irk may have made the finals but that was due to Amare being out the year which depleted the Suns frontline.
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SpursReport ate my balls.
Cuban jumping on the scorer's table and screaming "conspiracy!!!" at David Stern pretty much ensured that he'll never own an MLB club.
Perennial losers...perfect.
MLB doesn't care for New Money.
I think he would be good for MLB. The Mavs have not won a le but they are now a winning franchise, not only in games. I dont think it will happen but I hope it does. You might not like Cuban but he does his work and he does it well.
It was 32 and 13 straight up. Most teams have to double him. Dampier and Diop afford us that luxury. If it was Shawn Bradley or Raef LaFrentz on TD straight up, your shooters would light us up.I guess Findog is talking about 2006 when Dampier contained Tim for 34 and 14.
It depends on what you mean by "cover": Shut him down? You don't shut down elite players. Keep them from going completely nuts? I got a name for you, his name is Devin Harris. Parker's had his share of really good games against us, but he doesn't consistently light us up they way he does others.Nash can't cover Tony but name a point guard who can--no one.
That is why you post on Spurstalk.com and Donnie Nelson is president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks, assuming you're not being snarky.If I were Cuban I'd offer Harris and Howard for Nash.
Jason Kidd, Tony Parker, Baron Davis, Deron Williams, Chris Paul > Nash. Plug any one of those guys into Nash's spot and the Suns don't skip a beat. I might even take Allen Iverson over Nash.Who is better than Nash at the pg spot? The only guy I would even say is a healthy Baron Davis.
30 out of 30 GMs would disagree with you.I would take Nash over Irk in a heartbeat.
It was also due to getting past San Antonio. We're capable of beating the Suns with Amare. Nash and Amare are 7-5 against us over the last three years. That's hardly ownage. By the same token, the Spurs are 4-8 in their last 12 games against the Mavericks. Who would seriously argue by virtue of that recent history and us winning the last playoff series that San Antonio can't beat Dallas? If we use your Suns with Amare > Mavs logic, then Dallas owns the Spurs, lock, stock and barrel. And in both cases, it's just not true.Irk may have made the finals but that was due to Amare being out the year which depleted the Suns frontline.
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