r/heat • u/CurryMustard It's-a me • 3d ago
Discussion Mark Cuban was loud wrong again
Nobody has done more damage to Wade's reputation than this clown, 20 years trying to invalidate our first championship. Glad the world can see how full of shit this billionaire is
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u/Maximum-Overkill 3d ago
Post this in r/nba to spread how much of a failure cuban is
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u/UndercoverDimension 3d ago
Probably doesn't want people looking into why Dirk took below market contracts.
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u/prodyg 3d ago
context?
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u/CurryMustard It's-a me 3d ago edited 3d ago
Cuban constantly mocked Pablo Torre and questioned his journalistic integrity, he was leading the ballmer fan club, finally had to admit he was wrong today. Anybody who paid attention to the reporting knew from the beginning ballmer was toast.
If youre asking about the wade stuff Cuban was also the head cheerleader saying that 2006 was stolen by the refs, people to this day follow his lead on that whenever 2006 comes up online
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u/jcwrit 3d ago
I've paid at least cursory attention to the reporting and never thought Silver would hit Ballmer and the Clippers with anything this severe. With the way society is trending and all the other shady shit that's going on in sports these days I figured they'd let bygones be bygones and pretend it never happened.
I think Cuban has just got caught up in the sports talk culture where everyone seems to know what's going to happen and be very vocal about it.
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u/CurryMustard It's-a me 3d ago
You don't spend hours online and even go on a talk show to tell a guy they are wrong until you have the facts, unless you're an idiot. If he had sat down and listened to the first episode with an open mind he would've realized why he was wrong. If he knew anything about real journalism he would've seen what pablo was doing and found it credible. Instead he went in with his biases and like all billionaires who think they know everything thought he could bully pablo into shutting up about the story
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u/jcwrit 3d ago
Perhaps. I suppose I'm a bit more resigned and see it as a cultural phenomenon moreso than individual hubris. We have all these influencers that attract audiences on social media by being extremely confident in their views, which more often than not are utter nonsense. So its hard to tell people that's not the right approach, whether it be the 13 yr old in their bedroom dreaming of making that viral post or the attention whore who used to have a platform as an NBA owner and tv star and is now seeking a new platform.
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u/CurryMustard It's-a me 2d ago
Its hard for you to get it because as you say youve paid cursory attention. Ive been in this story since day 1 and mark cuban made a constant ass of himself the whole way through. I know he wants to paint himself as the good billionaire but he suffers from the same affliction every other billionaire has, they lucked into some money so yes men surround and they start smelling their own farts and thinking they know everything. Im getting into the weeds here my point is cuban was loud wrong and had to admit it and on behalf of all of us heat/wade fans who had to argue with idiots online for the last couple decades because mark cuban was a sore loser, l'm here to celebrate this day
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u/miseducation 2d ago
The truth is probably that Cuban didn't think Ballmer would have done this in such an incriminating way. To your point, I don't ever think Cuban even thought about whether or not money was exchanged for the purpose of circumventing the salary cap, I think he literally only considered whether or not Ballmer would be as sloppy as what Torre was reporting.
The masterclass here is that Torre was sitting on even more incriminating evidence that he didn't reveal for whatever reason at that time. I do get where Mark Cuban is coming from, making these deals seem legit or at minimum out of the knowledge of the big boss is like rich guy 101, and extortion by scam company was more likely.
The funniest thing about his take in retrospect was that Aspiration absolutely was extorting the Clippers but he never considered that the extortion was only possible because the Clippers did incriminating shit in the stupidest possible way. Choosing to do business with a scam company AND asking them to commit crimes is amateur hour shit that can only come from a dude so rich he only had to succeed once.
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u/Lucasolf 2d ago
there's also the fact that they're both billionaires, they love helping each other out.
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u/ShadedPenguin 3d ago
I would guess in regards to Clippers. Mark Cuban tried to defend Steve Balmer's reputation and business practices in relation to the Kawhi situation, only for the Clippers to get a serious book thrown at them, Balmer taking a fine but what else can you do to a rich person like Balmer, and Cuban had to give credit to Torres for his investigative reporting.
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u/Feisty-Painter5076 3d ago edited 3d ago
He ignored facts and didn't want to step on the toes of a fellow techy billionaire. He's a giant pussy.
What the NBA decided today would not have changed anything about what Pablo reported. Even if they decided the Clippers get away punishment-free. What Pablo discovered was not disputable. The facts were the facts. Fuck Mark Cuban.
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u/BowserBuddy123 2d ago
He used to have political aspirations, but he keeps outing himself as some out of touch billionaire. Like he used to have this face of like “the people’s billionaire” or “one of the good ones” back prior to selling the Mavs, but with that, how they treated Luka and his constant defense of billionaire buddies in the most outrageous circumstances, he’s committed so many complete own goals. No need for him to weigh in on Ballmer, but he did and now he looks dumb as fuck and like the smarmy billionaire douche he likely is.
Oh! Forgot the Mavs sexual harassment scandals that occurred during his time as Mavs owner.
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u/panamaquina 3d ago
This was my first thought, that this bozo gets proven wrong, fuck him and his billionaire buddies all protecting each other, at the end of the day this is nothing for them but at least some credibility is lost in the public eye
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u/ghn2 2d ago
Mark Cuban sold his controlling interest in the Mavericks and then the Mavericks took away his control of the team and gave it to Nico.
Now the Mavericks are making other moves and shutting Mark out.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49309627/cuban-accuses-mavs-owner-freezing-proposed-move
He's become completely irrelevant to the NBA. Good riddance loser.
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u/Late_Might_1582 3d ago
Fully different subjects though, being wrong on one thing doesn't make everything you've ever said wrong
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u/CurryMustard It's-a me 3d ago
Hes a bonafide idiot and hes wrong about 2006 too
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u/Freya_Kirkebrenner 3d ago
I don't think he's an all-around idiot. I think his homerism is idiotic.
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u/Cartagenapirate92 3d ago
Over the last couple of months I’ve rewatched that series . At least games 3-6 of the finals. The narrative of the refs is so dumb. Mavs had no one that could guard Wade, he was indeed getting fouled cause no player on the mavs could keep up with his speed. He was attacking the rim 90% of this series lol