"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
11 May 2006An expensive avocation, thisDallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wrote this piece on NBA playoff officiating before the playoffs began, but didn't publish it. Sunday, an incident at San Antonio: apparently disturbed at the absence of a foul call, Cuban ran onto the court and was ordered back to the bench. Cuban went back to his laptop and posted the article, which contained statements like this:
[T]he NBA has a huge problem. It doesn't view the playoffs as a place where the very best of the best of officials go to work. It views the playoffs as part of a reward system for officials.
The NBA's response? They fined him $100,000 for running onto the court, and another $100,000 for his blog article. Some people really, really don't like to be criticized. Posted at 9:03 AM to Blogorrhea , Net Proceeds |