mspurlin's Blog

...It is not going to help your team get any better at all!  You have squandered all the time that your team has to win a title.  You will never have another shot at it.  And you are the worst owner of a professional sports team in the state of Texas, and i sincerely mean that cuz i am right.

Let us take a look at the mess you have made of the Little Mavericks.

To start with, you were not some sort of great turn around artist.  Steve Nash, Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki were all on the team when you got to Dallas.  Don Nelson and his son Donnie already had assembled that talent.  That was the core of the team that helped initially launch the team into prominence. 

But you cam on and everyone gave you credit because you showed up just as the team started to gel.  Nice luck there.  You always received too much credit for that.

But you eventually ran off Don Nelson, perhaps one of the most successful coaches in franchise history, because you have an abrasive personality.  more on that later.

Then as the team matured, several players were changed.  Now some people will blame you for not resigning Steve Nash.  But I won't.  The team was better without Steve Nash, and the Suns certainly have done well with him despite having a better supporting cast than he ever had in Dallas.  MVPs aside, he will not ever be a championship level point guard.

But then you decide to help engineer the ruination of the current team by sticking with overpriced veterans like Eric Dampier (signed through 2011, also finished with ZERO points and ZERO rebounds in last night's loss. The starting CENTER had ZERO points and ZERO rebounds!)

And you traded away your most valuable assets for an aging point guard who was done playing at an elite level two or three years ago. 

This current team, second highest payroll in the league and second oldest as well, will not be better next year.  There is nobody that can be traded that will bring in any help.  They are finished with their run.

But do you know, Mr. Cuban, what the one thing you did that most ruined the franchise?  You bitched and moaned about the refs and made excuses for your team.  This directly led to their losses against the Heat in the finals.

Game 5 of the 2006 was the biggest scam job that i have ever seen associated with professional sports.  D Wade was not fouled at the end of the game, and should not have had a  chance to hit game winning free throws.  period, we agree on that.

But the Mavs could not recovers because you have created a culture of excuses that follow the team everywhere you go.  You run out on the court, you yell at refs, you blog about how inept and corrupt the ref system is, and then you wonder why the team you own is full of excuses all the time.  Instead of trying to overcome the bad officiating, they embrace it,as well as the fans, as some sort of conspiracy theory against the Mavs.  Excuses aren't just tolerated for your team, they are given to them by you yourself.

That is the main reason they did not beat the Heat, they could not overcome adversity.

Now you have fired Avery Johnson, the coach with the highest winning percentage in NBA history in his first 250 games.

But you did not fire him for on court performance so much as y ou fired him because you could not get along with him. 

Again, a coach leaves because he could not get along with the owner who thought things should be run differently. 

Jerry Jones gets crucified for being a difficult owner, a meddling owner.  Too bad he hasn't fooled the fans into thinking NFL refs are out to get the Cowboys and that is why they haven't won more superbowls. 

No you get a free pass because you are more personable and Jerry Jones has a salesman's look to him.  Even though he has done more with his team than you ever will. 

So go ahead and saddle another coach with your bloated payroll full of washed up veterans and ill fitting parts.  Then fire him too.  Trade Dirk if you want, he is the only player left with any trade value. 

Hell, you might as well coach the team yourself, since you apparently believe only you know how much everyone should play. 

As a former mavs fan, I can promise you one thing though, I will never root for the team again as long as you own them.  I hope you get fed up and sell them.  go buy a baseball team.  That is the one sport where an idiot billionare with a ton of money can simply spend his way to a title.  Sounds like a perfect fit.