(12-03-2022, 11:21 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: they came in with his biggest monetary offer
We do know the Mavs didn't want to go over a certain threshhold, BUT they wanted a final meeting with him (possibly to up that offer) and he refused to give them a chance to match or better the offer.
BOTH things can be true:
1) Cuban is cheap and desperately did NOT want to pay more than $XX,XXX,XXX.
2) Cuban in the 11th hour realized that losing JB for nothing would be a disaster from an asset standpoint and therefore was willing to go higher, but at that point money wasn't going to change JB's mind.