After witnessing his Dallas Mavericks lose to the lowly Oklahoma City Thunder 96-87 Monday night, Mark Cuban officially went 100% spaz...again. Which immediately summons the question of when isn't this guy freaking out?! This time, Cuban's target is his own team. Disgusted with his players' lack of effort, Cuban declared "The effort and energy, on both sides of the ball, by each player will decide their future with the Mavericks. If each player can't take the personal initiative to make every game important and play like it, I don't see them being here next season."
What does Cuban expect exactly? After all, he owns an NBA basketball team. Hell, if he can get all 15 of his players to play one game as if it were important, I'd volunteer to wash his helicopter once a week for a year. Cuban clearly has set his expectations too high. Remember, this is the same guy who currently has Erick Dampier as his starting center. Dampier's Care-O-Meter seems to max out just above the acknowledgement of life level.
Cuban is also overlooking the fact that leading 6th Man of the Year candidate Jason Terry has returned from a broken hand 3 weeks early. Although, Terry coming back early was probably inspired by him wanting to get enough games played to qualify him for the award. That, coupled with the fact that in a few months, he'll be a free agent. Not that I'm talking bad about Terry being back. After all, he's on my fantasy team, and he has been sorely missed.
The part of this story that brings the biggest smile to my face might just be the fact that as an NBA owner, the number one sign that your players have shown a complete lack of effort and you should clean house, is if you lose to the Oklahoma City Thunder. That alone has Seattleites grinning and wanting to ask Clay Bennett "so, how's that whole stealing the Sonics from us thing working out?"
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