Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich

Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich by fallentimes on Saturday October 04, 2008 @02:29PM (#323602)

Sold grocery bags as a kid, sold a small computer company to make his early millions, owns the Dallas Mavericks, flipped Broadcast.com to the boners at Yahoo.com for billions, started HDNet, owns various movie production companies and distribution channels, helped produce the movie The Smartest Guys in the Room (awesome movie about Enron), ran and sold a hedge fund, angel investor in many many things, prominent blogger, and most recently made a godawful awful trade for the unbelievably overrated Jason Kidd.

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Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich by prakash on Saturday October 04, 2008 @03:19PM (#323625)

One tiny addition to your list, didn't re-sign Steve Nash.

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Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich by fallentimes on Saturday October 04, 2008 @03:26PM (#323628)

Also of recent: didn't go after Gasol when he had the chance, overpaid for Erick Dampier, paid the salaries of Devean George, Antoine Wright and Eddie Jones (old version) even though they are the same player, traded one of the best young PGs in the league (Devin Harris), overpaid for a mediocre center (Diop), and most importantly, refuses (so far) to play up tempo basketball even though the best players the Mavs have (Dirk, Howard, Terry, Bass, Kidd) would all thrive in it. I think Cuban still has a bad taste in his mouth from the run'n'gun Nellie era.

Can you tell I run a site that searches for Sports Tickets? :)

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Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich by prakash on Saturday October 04, 2008 @03:29PM (#323630)

Can you tell I run a site that searches for Sports Tickets? :)

not really :-), if you have been following the Mavs from the time Cuban bought it.

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Re:Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich by fallentimes on Saturday October 04, 2008 @04:07PM (#323644)

Haha I can provide a similar analysis for any NBA team - it's what I know best.

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