Mark Cuban
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was all about fans and making the league better and improving the experience.
The global profile.
Yeah.
And all that stuff too.
They were smart.
They were smarter than I was in that stuff.
But then all of a sudden, you know, teams changed hands and all the meetings were about, you know, valuations and not about improving the teams or improving the game itself.
And I was just like, okay, I don't need this shit anymore.
Yeah.
It's a smaller market.
I left money on the table.
Financially, it was not a good move for me.
I made mistakes.
I did it that way because I expected that I would continue to run the team.
Right.
Because, yeah.
And that's just not what happened.
No, it was going to be in charge of basketball operations.
But the league had these stipulations and we couldn't get it into the contract.
And I trusted the guy and the guy didn't live up to what he shook hands on.