Mark Cuban had a significant gripe all through his 23 years of proudly owning the Mavericks — and it was a cause he wound up promoting his majority stake.
Cuban isn’t a fan of the NBA’s prime gamers taking part within the Olympics.
Cuban talked about that he usually pitched to NBA commissioner Adam Silver an analogous system to what soccer does with the Olympics, with the youthful athletes taking part, whereas the FIFA World Cup performs because the marquee occasion with the world’s finest all competing.
“We could be almost as big as the soccer World Cup … in soccer it’s bigger than the Olympics, so we could do the exact same thing,” Cuban described his concepts to Sirius XM. “But Adam [Silver] wouldn’t go for it, so that’s why I sold my team.”
Whereas Cuban addressed his sale of the group in a joking method, his concepts have been very legit.
“Give [the Olympics] our young kids. Do the same thing as soccer. Let the 21-and-under play for the Olympics, and then create our own international World Cup.”
Cuban cited damage threat as a driving think about what set him off every time his gamers took their skills to the Olympics.
“I hated it,” Cuban advised Sirius XM. “I complained about it every single year. Because, in my attitude, guys going to play for the Olympics, Comcast/NBC is making billions. The IOC, making billions. Even FIBA, making a lot. And we’re giving all these guys for free and taking all the injury risk.”
Cuban has some extent, because the NBA is house to some unbelievably costly gamers.
For instance, Suns star Devin Booker simply signed a two-year, $145 million extension, which means that if he performed the complete 82 video games in a season that he’d be making practically $1 million per recreation along with his $72.5 million annual wage.
In order an NBA proprietor, Cuban wasn’t fond of those nine-figure-contract gamers being shelled out to the Olympics whereas he watches from the sidelines, hoping that none of his gamers go down with any accidents.
Cuban simply hoped for some safety for gamers and house owners within the worst-case situation {that a} celebrity will get damage exterior of the NBA.
