David Samson

Even these step transactions that we pretend happen, like with the Celtics, in real life, like Wick at the Celtics, see you later.

Mark Cuban, done.

And he wanted people to think he had the power just in case maybe the Mavericks were good.

But then the minute they traded Luka, he comes out and says, oh man,

I had nothing to do with that, and I wanted power, but Nico didn't want me to have power?

That's pathetic.

The GM has zero say in a purchase agreement.

Zero.

And in the purchase agreement for the Mavericks, it outlines exactly what the powers will be of Mark Cuban and his retained 27%.

It's about as much power as you have, Dan, with the Mavericks.

Nico...

It's like saying that Mike Hill would have been involved in the sale of the team to Derek Jeter.

He had nothing to do with it at all.

You're not allowed to have highlights on YouTube.

It gets taken down unless you pay the league for highlight rights.

For crying out loud, what Adam was trying to respond to was someone asking, hey, is it really too expensive to watch NBA games?

And his only answer was, yeah, but let's talk about the fact that you get highlights for free, like by watching SportsCenter, and highlights are what people are interested in anyway.

We're a highlight league?

Boy, season ticket salespeople are super excited to have him say that.

People who work in in-game entertainment, people trying to advertise like Aspiration in the Intuit Dome, trying to say, oh, people love going to games.