Mark Cuban is Making Friends

by Wes Cox on Mar 22, 2007 8:46 PM CDT in News

Here's the background

Natalie, of Need4Sheed.com fame, mentions in her post after the Mavs game that "Mark Cuban stood up in the closing minute of the game, faced the Pistons crowd and hollered, 'Western Conference Defense.'"

This leads to Pistons fans doing the usual, "Cuban should shut-up" and "stop whining, baby" routine. Nothing out of the ordinary -- until Cuban showed up to explain himself.

despite all the love im getting on the blog comments, let me explain my "taunting"

first, let me say Im a huge sheed fan and he knows it. So i check out this blog now and then

2nd. I did say "western conference defense " to the crowd. And if you do see a video of it, you will see they were all laughing. Why ? because a big chunk of the game, the guys behind me, someone said it was the Mayor, were yelling at us " Eastern Conference Defense" when the Pistons would get a big stop.

Which we all took as fun. And when we got the stop to end the game, i said the same thing back.

Thats what makes the games fun.

And for those of you who think an owner should just sit in a box. Feel free to buy a team and do just that.

Me, I love the NBA and the Mavs and its a whole lot more fun getting in to the games.

Pretty cool, and it led to some Pistons fans changing their tune.

Mark if you do read this I am sorry for my earlier comment and I can now say even know I view you as an owner I now respect the passion you have for this game and your team it is the same passion every true fan has for their team.

The story explains itself - Cuban is relatable.

I'll tell a Cuban story of my own now. I was a senior in high school the year Cuban bought the Mavs. For a marketing class I was in, everyone had to bring a "professional" to class so they could tell about the 'business-world'. About 20 people brought their mom or dad and a handful more brought their boss. A friend of mine, who was smarter than the rest of us, decided to email Mark Cuban. Two week later, there he was. He drove out to the suburbs on a Thursday afternoon to talk to a classroom of 25 seventeen and eighteen year olds for forty-five minutes. He came, he talked, and he left with a classroom full of "Mavs Fans For Life".

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Damn Wes

You're younger than I am...

by BrodyV on Mar 23, 2007 8:14 AM CDT reply actions

sooo

youre 24 or 25?

older than me

by zkmavz on Mar 23, 2007 9:25 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah, 24

by Wes Cox on Mar 23, 2007 9:27 AM CDT up reply actions

I have a personable story about mark cuban as well

I was a student at baylor university... somehow, someone had mark cubans phone number... i didnt beleive it.. .so i got the number and planned to call it at some point...

fast forward to a late friday or saturday night... im not sure.. they ran together im sure...

im hanging with one of my best friends, who is a spurs fan... and by about 3am, we deciude it would be a good idea to try out that mark cuban phone number...

we do... the answering machine picks up... i do not have clear recollection of this... there was a lot of yelling.. me saying i love the mavs and we rule and what not.. my friend drunkenly saying stuff about the spurs...

a few days later i got a phone call during the day...

it was the dallas police... they were asking me about prank calling and i was confused... i then realized what was going on and i asked the cops...

"is this about mark cuban?"

they said it was and i then said to the police...

"wow! so that's really his home number? awesome!"

i was then told to not call that number and leave messages in the middle of the night.. they said mark wouldnt have used to care at all, but with his family now, he didnt want that happening...

so yes, Mark Cuban called the cops on me... and it was awesome... and he hasn't replied to an email of mine ever since...

by zkmavz on Mar 23, 2007 9:47 AM CDT reply actions