Cuban's missive crisis
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was fined a couple hundred grand by the NBA for making comments on his blog about improving NBA officiating.No doubt this fine is levied primarily as a cumulative response to Cuban's past comments, such as being unwilling to hire the NBA's head of officials "to manage a Dairy Queen."
But Cuban's blog comments seem both restrained and well-reasoned. Although what Cuban says about how "the best people should be on the job with the money products" is not true -- consider how seniority, for instance, affects the very concept -- he makes the point that NBA officiating is not coordinated with business efficiency in mind. (And considering how every other aspect of the sport is aligned with making money, why not this one?)
So the NBA doesn't want to hear from Cuban about this because... he owns a team? he has openly complained before? Or maybe it's more that they won't admit that nobody else is qualified to have a good idea on this point. Or maybe the NBA believes it's running its business so well that its poop doesn't even stink. Maybe. But something about those guys does stink, that's for sure. I think Cuban should be praised for standing up against it.
Labels: character, diversions
posted by Ron @ 11:36 PM
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Great headline for a really interesting post!
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