The outspoken Mavericks owner was fined by the league on Wednesday for “public statements detrimental to the NBA.”
Mark Cuban is breaking his own records.
The outspoken Mavericks owner was fined $600,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for “public statements detrimental to the NBA,” the league announced.
On Monday, Cuban said that he had communicated with his team that tanking “is our best option.”
“I’m probably not supposed to say this, but, like, I just had dinner with a bunch of our guys the other night, and here we are, you know, we weren’t competing for the playoffs,” Cuban said Monday on a podcast with Hall of Famer Julius Irving. “I was like, ‘Look, losing is our best option.'”
The league clearly wasn’t thrilled with public admittance slapping him with the largest fine ever handed down to an NBA owner, breaking his own record of $500,000 from 2002 when he criticized the league’s officiating.
Cuban, who entered the league in 2000, has been fined over $2 million since taking over in Dallas.
It’s the continuation of a rough few days for Cuban, whose franchise was the subject of a Sports Illustrated investigative story that exposed a ” corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior” within the organization for decades.
