Bleacher Report
The Dallas Mavericks will not play the national anthem prior to home games at the American Airlines Center this season.
They have not done so for any of their 13 preseason and regular-season home games to this point, and Mavericks governor Mark Cuban confirmed to Tim Cato of The Athletic on Monday that they will not play the song going forward even as fans return to the arena.
Monday’s home game against the Minnesota Timberwolves was Dallas’ first this season with limited fans in attendance.
An NBA spokesperson said “under the unique circumstances of this season, teams are permitted to run their pregame operations as they see fit.” More
He’s from Pittsburgh – which makes him a unionized libtard. 👎
I believe the Cuban folk that fled to Miami want that rat bastard to change his fucking name!
Billionaire ass licking sack of shit.
Come get me Mark!
Take that giant China made buttplug out your bleeding ass and coma at me bro!
Haha Loco Dude.
Who is this guy ???
ALL pro ball is dead to me.
Watch local college & LL BB.
Cuban’s a genius. No anthem means no taking a knee while it’s playing.
Sheer brilliance!
OFFS, that’s mrsradiomattm not mrs. Damn it!
And they say this Idiot wants to run for President some day.
Great start asshole.
Ditch cuban, his team, his players (avoid the products they endorse), etc. Let them move to china where they belong.
Evidently his team name is based on John McCain and not James Garner…
I’m from the Dallas area, and we’re not too fond of him either. I always thought one had to have some intelligence in order to become a billionaire. He and Jerry Jones are proof that isn’t true.
Anyway, I think I read that he has reversed the decision, but he was not gracious about it at all.
Nothing survives in a vacuum. So, ditch the anthem and replace it with… Fill-in-the-blank.
@LadyGun12–The NBA came out yesterday with a statement that all teams will play the National Anthem. Cuban said he will.
The NBA is owned by the Chinese Communist Party so I suppose Stars and Stripes is no longer appropriate.
Don’t really GAF.
Not going to watch a bunch of guys in their underwear trying to fill baskets with holes in the bottoms.
izlamo delenda est …
This guys a fucking idiot. His views change with the weather and seldom make any sense. He just likes to hear himself talk.
Cuban is a modern day slave trader.
He got paid $5.7B by Yahoo to buy his website, which is no longer in existence, at the height of the tech bubble. For this, he’s a genius. He’s turned $5.7B into $4.4B in a roaring economy.
Timing is everything. He could have been the Pets.com guy and we could have had the last 20 years of never knowing who this clown is.
Other great Yahoo failures:
Not buying Google for $1M.
Not buying Facebook for $1B.
Not selling out to Microsoft for $44B.
If you reflect on the worst parts and most destructive forces of the last year 20 years, Yahoo’s mismanagement contributed to most of them.
The NBA sucks, it has become the Natl. Thug Bassett Ball Assoc. Our local Gonzaga Bulldogs are 19-0 and the #1 team in college basketball this season and have a very good chance of possibly winning the NCAA basketball tournament this year, go Zags.