April 26, 2004
Chatting With Cuban
Thanks to readers Beau Dure and Jim McCarthy for the pointer to the Mark Cuban chat session over at USA Today. Here's my favorite moment:
Dallas, Tx: Hey Mark, Do you think players leaving college early is hurting the NBA? What about NCAA? Do you as NBA owners care about the welfare of the NCAA game for the future of the NBA? Thanks man! You are awesome!
Mark Cuban: I could care less about the welfare of the NCAA game. To me its incredibly hypocritical how they go about their business. They should allow players to declare "going to the NBA" as their major, and accept that as reality instead of trying to fool themselves.
If I was allowed to, i would go to a local college team, ask them to leave the NCAA and personally provide financial support for them to educate players, allow us to pay the players a stipend to help them out, and let the players see and know if they are qualified for the nba so they can make an educated, realistic decision on their future.
The NCAA has enabled an environment where agents come in and mislead kids into thinking they can play in the NBA, and then when they cant, the kids are stuck with no place to go and no way to pay to finish their education. Thats wrong, and the NCAA is completely responsible and they know it.
See if you can find the question I submitted.
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I had it narrowed down to two: either the one about having a HS athlete v. the college athlete; or the one about the Bullets future.
I bet it's the former...and his answer that the Mavs now have more former college players and lean that way, but he wouldn't say anything concrete that he would never take a HS player.
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