Greatest Legal Filing Ever? Mark Cuban Files Photo Of Mavs Championship In Response To Charges He Mismanaged The Team
from the slam-dunk dept
In what may be one of the best legal filings I’ve ever seen, it appears that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban couldn’t resist filing a somewhat snarky motion for summary judgment in a case brought against him last year by (5% owner) Ross Perot Jr., claiming that Cuban had mismanaged the basketball team, and that it had caused the club to “lose substantial investment value.” Obviously, if you pay attention at all to the NBA, you would know that the Mavericks recently beat the Miami Heat to win the Championship. The filing makes sure that’s clear, by always referring to the team as “the World Champion Dallas Mavericks.” The key page of the filing is page two. I’ve got the whole thing embedded below, but here’s the key part:
Filed Under: dallas mavericks, legal filings, mark cuban, ross perot jr.
Companies: world champion dallas mavericks
Comments on “Greatest Legal Filing Ever? Mark Cuban Files Photo Of Mavs Championship In Response To Charges He Mismanaged The Team”
Dear Mark....
Really? You couldn’t beat out Tom Ricketts to buy my Cubs? Maybe you could now, now that the value for the team has been thrown into so much doubt? Maybe you need a helmeted mascot?
Love,
Dark Helmet
Re: Dear Mark....
I’m hoping and praying he will buy the Dodgers.
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Dream on …
Mark Cuban would buy the Cubs or Dodgers in a heartbeat. Baseball has said no. Baseball thinks Mr. Cuban would be bad for the league.
I think the issue with the Cubs is that the other owners were working together to make sure Cuban didn’t win. The last thing the old boys club wanted was somebody like Cuban coming in and screwing with the status quo.
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“I think the issue with the Cubs is that the other owners were working together to make sure Cuban didn’t win.”
That’s absolutely what happened. Hell, the NBA didn’t even want him, short-sighted gits that they are….
That was pretty clever. I like his moxy.
Thank you, Mike, for NOTHING,
…nothing could have been better with my morning coffee. Thank you.
He proves only that even a blind mouse occassionally finds the cheese.
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this
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you dont win a championship by being lucky.
especially in a playoff series where each round has a ‘best of’ where you have to win multiple games.
the closest thing to that is the lakers getting lucky enough to have the refs choak on their whistles every time shaq stepped over the line on a freethrow (which was pretty much damn near every free throw he took when he was with the lakers). but still…. you dont get to the playoffs without being a solid organization from player to office personnel. end of story.
you may not like cuban (hell, i dont care for him much myself) but you dont build a team that goes to the playoffs as many times as they have since he bought them by being lucky.
Someone has never seen Slap Shot…
Best lawyer response ever
And I mean EVER!!!! I can’t think of a better way to start the day.
Re: Best lawyer response ever
Nah, the one in Arkell v. Pressdram is still the best one.
WGAF
From the “who gives a flying F#cK Dept” !!
That’s what it should be under !!!!
Quiet news week Mike ?
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I know, it’s so lame you couldn’t even be bothered to comment on it.
Oh wait…..
Re: WGAF
You must be a Lebronz Jamez fan.
But other than that, i agree with you.
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Damnit Masnick, this is fun and good!! I hate fun and good!!! Give me more twisted sad pathetic, damnit!@!
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Dear Darryl,
Go the F**ck to Sleep.
– Trails
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From the “who gives a flying F#cK Dept” !!
That’s what it should be under !!!!
That’s why it’s currently the second most popular story today. Clearly, no one cares.
Quiet news week Mike ?
Nope. The exact opposite. Why do you ask?
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The second most popular story today?! ZOMG! What, a couple dozen views then?
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I’ve already looked a thousand times. Sorry, Mike!
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The second most popular story today?! ZOMG! What, a couple dozen views then?
Yes. You found me out. This blog is not at all popular. No one reads it at all.
Questions
Is that picture now in the public domain? Did he secure the rights to use it?
These are the questions that go through my mind now, thanks to you, Mike. I hope you’re happy.
Stupid copyright system…
My thought is that the team is a business and Perot is an investor who’s primary goal may be to make money not earn trophies. Cuban may be happy with the Mav’s making less money or appreciating less value in exchange for the trophy.
While on-court success is great it doesn’t preclude mismanagement from a business perspective. Of course this doesn’t make the filing any less funny for the rest of us:)
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“My thought is that the team is a business and Perot is an investor who’s primary goal may be to make money not earn trophies.”
Then he’s an idiot. The vast majority of sports franchises are not profitable. Setting aside the NFL for a moment, because they’re a completely different animal, something like 21 of the 30 NBA teams lost money every time they played a game this past season. It’s for this reason that the owners are asking the players to take a 30-40% bath on their salaries starting next year, which is why there will be no NBA basketball next season.
Baseball is in a slightly less dyer, but similar, situation, with MLB taking ownership of some teams, all kinds of teams in huge trouble (like the Mets, thanks to Madoff).
And don’t even get me started on Hockey. That’s a league BEGGING for contraction…
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My thought is that the team is a business and Perot is an investor who’s primary goal may be to make money not earn trophies. Cuban may be happy with the Mav’s making less money or appreciating less value in exchange for the trophy.
Do you realize how much trophies actually help a team make money? It increases their draw, it increases the rate the team can charge sponsors. It can increase ticket prices while more fans want to go.
Trophies are a good way to make money.
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The San Francisco Giants are a classic example of this.
After winning the World Series last year, their average attendance is up 11% (37,499 to 41,711).
The Texas Rangers are doing even better (up 20%) having lost to the Giants.
Both of these are far better than the average, which is down a bit this year.
Silly question
What is the objective of a basketball team?
Should it be to win the championship as shown on page 2 of the filing?
Or does Mr Perot Jr/Hillwood Investment, the plaintiff, believe it should be to maximize profits in order to preserve investment value of the business…
Side note: I never knew that the Mavericks Management was so “Radical”…
?World Champion??
Which other countries did they beat, then?
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Canada!
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You do NOT want Canada to lose…
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Chris,I’ve been telling people the same thing.That’s colusion and t’s against the law.I posted this on yahoo earlier.Boycott wrigley field.I knew when Ricketts got the cubs,there;d be nothing but trouble.Major league baseball wouldn’t let Mark Cuban buy the cubs.Major league baseball didn’t want a steinbrenner in the national league.If Mark Cuban sidles up to fellow Cubs fans at future Wrigley Field games, apparently he’ll have to do so as a ticket buyer.
Cuban’s bid to buy the team from owner Sam Zell? According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Internet billionaire and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks won’t even make the final cut if commissioner Bud Selig and Major League Baseball owners have their way.
“There’s no way Bud and the owners are going to let that happen,” a baseball source told the Chicago Sun-Times earlier this week. “Zero chance.”.Bud Selig and the rest of the owners in baseball are all jack a s s e s s.They love the cubs being losers.They didn’t want a owner with deep pockets to buy the cubs.Enters cheap a s s Ricketts.Boycott the cubs until Ricketts starts spending some money on good free agents.Most prospects never make it in the majors.Now,the super year is pushed back to 2016.Then,it’ll be 2017,2018,2019.Epstein has never rebuilt a damn thing.The red sox were already a 90 plus win team when he got there.Boston was happy to see epstein get the hell out of dodge.Now,they’re winning without him.Like they would’ve done anyway.