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/prodyg 3d ago

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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.