Mavericks Hall of Shame

[KillerLeft]

Mark Cuban.

He is the first, second, third, and fourth fat face on the Mt. Rushmore of Dallas shame.

I'm as big of a Cuban-hater as the next guy, but there was a good decade (the better part of it, at least) where he almost single-handedly pulled this franchise out of the gutter. He made numerous innovations to both the team and league, he injected confidence and ambition into the team, he believed in the Nelsons (which was the right choice at the time, even if he believed in Donnie a bit too long) when other new owners likely wouldn't have and rightly stuck by the Nash/Dirk direction they had set up right before he acquired the team. 

Yeah, most of the stuff he did from about the time he didn't re-sign Nash was wrong, and there have been times this past decade when I prayed for him to sell the team, but now that he has, I feel like given enough time I might come to look back on his ownership era with some fondness.