Why Did Mark Cuban Sell the Mavericks? 

My dad just texted me that he loved this video. It's the first time he's ever done that. 😆

Mavs fan here. This is the best video you've ever done. This is the type content you should be making - not the reality show fodder variety.

this is actually some decent journalism

He sold so can keep the upside of playing NBA My League but without the financial repercussions or pressures.

Mark Cuban has been a high caliber finesser since the 90s. It doesn't surprise me that he knows how to excel at an exit strategy

If the NBA actually made the games easy to watch, and not always nba league pass, the ratings would go up

cuban winning a lot since he still pretty much control the front office & roster but have less financial risk as the minority owner

ratings are down, interest is down, yet somehow the player salaries and team values keep going up. reminds me of the housing bubble. last time Cuban sold a company for billions, it imploded shortly after and single-handedly sunk the buyer, yahoo.

Easily the best video I've seen from this channel. Outstanding!

AM Hoops, you do exceptional work and you can tell you put in a lot of effort. Also, the uniqueness and delivery of your content are both superb. Thank you for your work. I am hospitalized and your content is one of the reasons my days are bearable.

This video should get billions of views. Love the content!

I always come here to get the real scoop! Good stuff as always

This is excellent content, Man you can create your own network

Dude is so shady... Not for selling the team. But for all those crypto scams. =(

I love this kind of stuff. I just hope more people do as well, so you make more of it.

To be honest you're videos are unique than other nba cover, it's like an mini documentary and waiting for videos everyday.

Excellent video. A.M. Hoops you are definitly not just another NBA channel, your reports are consistently high quality

Thank you A.M. Hoops, this is gold. For all his reputation as a “relatable ordinary man” Cuban is nothing but a charlatan. He got lucky 30 years ago being at the right place at the right time. His genuine passion for basketball was his only strength, and it carried him for the last 20 years, along with the media attention he received through interviews and reality shows, like he is some kind of intelligent man. Clearly it got to his head. It saddens me as a long time Mavericks fan to see the inevitable end of this franchise, I hope casinos never get legalized in Texas for the wellbeing of everyone who lives there, and I hope the evil Adelsons take their investment back to Vegas or Israel. That’s the big vision of the visionary Cuban who has zero clue about anything, the man is so disconnected from reality as is most of the Sports world.

Great video. All your videos are good, but this is one of the best. Not just NBA, but also (sketchy) politics and economy. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Excellent video. More of this please!

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Good job Casey, this was great

Good vid bro. You're getting better n better.

Content like this is the reason I subscribed to this channel originally. Good video man. 👌🏽

hi! love your vids

Respect for Texas that gambling is actually illegal. Hope they won’t change that.

Great videos as usual Casey!

Man always good to relax and eat to this channel

It’s extra funny because Cuban has done a lot of the damage

as someone who lives in Dallas, MANY people go to the border of Oklahoma for gambling I think this is going to happen within 3 years

Dude, such a great video

This was informative and good journalism!

It's entirely about gambling/money. There are 2 big casinos right over the Red River in Oklahoma. Hour north of DFW. Most of clientele are from DFW down to San Antonio. TX is huge and rich and filled with sports nuts. The proceeds from say a dozen casino's with sports books would be nuts. If anyone can convince the legislature to turn on this spigot is going to make a fortune. Mark Cuban is one of the guys who can do it. The new owners run casinos.

thank you for highlighting the facts. and not saying that the nba is at its best ever when its really not. if the nba wants to survive they need to fix the product. favor defense, make players play the game, stop the refs, make player not be big softies. bring back the good ol nba

Great video!

another day another banger from AM hoops

Ratings would skyrocket if it was as easy to watch as the NFL and maybe just two games a week per team and make them count WAY more by having like a 50 game season. Now as a die hard, I like having a game every other night. But casuals would watch way more if you had games on like Thursdays and Saturdays only.

Shout out to the international man of mystery, sneaking into a shot there with the commish'

Thank you for this video.🎉

Your research is insane idk if you have a team or what but this was awesome work thank you for the content

The nba has become about pop stars moving around not competition. Nobody cares about winning really, only a bit in the playoffs.

Cuban being a scammer is a bit of heartbreak

wow good work it was some fine journalism. i was really interested the entire time. mark is up to something lol

Awesome video. Do more like this!!!

We don’t need that casino tbh Dallas is getting mad full smh

It could be that they know something catastrophic is likely to occur relatively soon and the insiders are trying to liquidate anything that's not a hard asset.

Dude. Great video

Thank you for this video.

Great research bro

great video bro!! can your next one be on the suns??

best vid you ever done

Great video you really should make more of these style of videos many I’m sure agree with me

How Adam Silver got an extension after ruining the NBA is crazy….he has single handedly made the NBA soft and therefore people have lost interest….there is zero competitiveness and aggression and Silver made sure of that through the refs…

I've been predicting the TV deals were going to go south because of cord cutting. Cable doesn't have the money to fund these sports at the levels they are used to, and no league is setup to handle decreasing salary caps. I just thought the NHL would feel the squeeze first.

Hey your vid actually has the most substance among many other nba ytbers

You are consistently good, but this video is amazing

games also used to be on free tv. blackout laws are stupid af too

65 is too old to be a crypto bro

Nice Vid man

Great analysis!

When Chamath Palihapitiya sold his stake of the warriors I knew he knows something and it isn’t good. Then when Cuban sold his majority stake, it solidified my suspicions. The NBA is in for rough time post Curry and Lebron. Unless Wemby emerges as the savior

Gambling in sports has very very quickly gotten out of control. I was all for it four years ago, and I couldn't have been more wrong. There is nothing more obnoxious than seeing an ad for sports betting on every single sports video I watch, as well as the actual NBA. Seeing an ad for sports betting every 60 seconds is frustrating, annoying, and predatory to say the least. Would be different if it was once in a blue moon, but the NBA clearly has some sort of deal going with the brokers, or else they wouldn't allow this. It has quickly become disgusting, and I don't appreciate it being jammed down my throat at literally every opportunity they get. PLEASE stop. Wanna watch a game with a friend? "Hey bro, who gonna win tonight?" Followed by a wrong or even right prediction, and the entire fucking game being ruined as they stare at their phone to see if their parlay hit. Please stop the total degeneracy. It would also feel a little bit less predatory if the NBA weren't investigated by the FBI for rigging games due to gambling, which you have made several videos about...

Great video

Casey You just keep getting better and better my friend... keep the great work up man. AM Hoops #1 NBA Content on RU-vid 💯 Michael Carrozza

Maybe the reason the ratings are going down is because the play way too many games in the regular season that it gets tiring for the casual viewers. I think it would be better if they have games and schedule like soccer in europe. Where they play on weekends hence you can promote the games during the week. Plus more people would be watching on weekends

Cuban sees the writing on the wall. Fans are disgusted by the diva attitudes of the players. They have been spitting in the face of the fans by resting and demanding trades. Silver has no backbone. The players need to be humbled

great video, good research with the nfts

This is a great video for someone who doesn't understand business.

There is going to be reckoning soon Players power have gone unchecked. they are taking 50% of all revenue before the business even pay for other expenses.

Too much stressful work

Also the companies won’t bid separately but works together to curb the inflation of exclusivity. This makes only 4 big bidders on the sports market as a whole and they will protect each other because they are all under pressure to create profit rather than to expand.

Warriors fan here. I like Mark Cuban. I’m sorry to hear this.

Cuban is always ahead of the curve.

Part of it is he knows NBA as a money earner has past it's prime...

1:28 Steve Ballmer's net worth is higher than the next 10 in the list COMBINED😮

Shark isn't the Govnor, That was reported widely but his official position is Assistant Governor. And his Official Boss (Not the owner) for the first time was sitting front row last game. Dude finally has a boss and he's finally gonna be judged for his actions(instead of letting PR GM's take the blame)

Bros old, made a bag and won a ring. I think he’s pretty happy

TV ratings could also be down because everyone watches sports through illegal streams…

I just noticed that you highlighted my comment. 🤣I have an even better take this time around.

Well done video. Been thinking about this as Mavs progressed through the playoffs. I know he has a son so I was thinking it could be more nuanced. Maybe he didn’t see his son having aspirations to be the future owner and seeing what happened with the Lakers after Jerry Buss passed away with Jim Buss before Jeanie had to right the ship. If I interviewed Cuban I’d ask him if what he saw happen in LA after Dr. Buss passed away factored into his decision not to keep the majority of the ownership for his son to eventually take over.

Today's watered down version of the NBA becomes hard to watch. Almost no defense allowed, a bunch of self-obsessed crybabies on the floor, too many game interruptions due to free-throws and commercials, it's a recipe for disaster. Cuban and Jordan, among others, are smart for selling now.

I have not been to an NBA game in 5 years. The last NBA game I watched on TV was the 2019 NBA finals. I dropped my cable subscription and just stream movies and shows on Netflix, Hulu, HBO and Prime.I figured out I have better things to do outside and don't want the distraction. My interest in NBA basketball is nearly gone and I don't see it returning. The NBA product has dropped off in a major way and I think Cubian knows once Lebron retires there will be a major drop in people caring about the product.

Well done man.

Great stuff. Keep it up. Genuine damn journalism.

Video should’ve been about the trade dallas made at the deadline but it came out to be the entire team getting traded to new owner 😂😂

The nba is loosing ratings because of their whole politics. Turned many fans off.

beautiful journalism

This is a really nice take on things. I'll elaborate a bit more. Many people forget that besides being a sport, the NBA was also always entertainment TV. Up to a point whatever choices the head of the NBA made most of the time seemed to be the right ones. Like investing on your superstars, and making the coverage available to the whole world to watch it. Everything was great; amazing even. Then something happened, that usually means trouble for any company. The money became TOO much! Most of the times (maybe not always) brings greed with it. Maybe it's from the founding members or maybe it's from the newer investors. The NBA's problem the last decade+ has been GREED! They try to hide it as best they can, but those who follow the sport have noticed it as well. It seethes from every corner, through the decisions they make. For example, the players have always protested against the - basically slave labor - that is 82 games + offseason games. Their bodies can barely take this abuse, and they're right. I personally don't know of any other sport in the world that abuses it's players like this. Can you guess why the management is so adamant in not changing this? Then there's the officiating. "People want fast paced games, because they get bored with real basketball". Solution: every kind of contact is a defensive foul. Everybody gets a score! Good ratings! Good money! Mmmmm! (their assumption). Next... have you ever noticed how the officiating in games is not at all consistent? Yeah? It's not because they suck. And you'll notice this become most evident during the playoffs. The playoffs bring HUGE money to the NBA, and they, for sure as hell, don't want your clearly superior team, playing ONLY 4 GAMES with each opponent. Nooooo, they want that cheddar... So how do they solve this? Well, the officials ( you know the "judges" that are eployed by them) can fix it for you. They are the actual 6th player. And they hold a lot of power. They can rig your game to go anyway the higher ups want it. Most players are afraid to say this publicly because they might lose their job, but some have done so. These are some of the things that manifest because money is more important than the NBA. But now it has gone so far that people are starting to notice. This kind of "sport cancer" isn't visible, but long time viewers can feel it. The grand life that is being an NBA player is just a glorified prison, built on the dreams of young kids, some of which (if talented enough) will someday be able to see both, a lot of money in their hands, and their favorite sport being abused.

Cause LeMao James ruined the NBA

Very good video

Crazy sucession moves being done here!

I dropped a like just for the map at 5:50 with the SuperSonics and double Grizzlies

is watching from your mobile phone included in the views or ratings? or from the internet

They need to stream more games

MY MAN!!!

This is a great video but I'm a real fan of A.M Hoops and all his videos are just top of the line

I’m sorry, but did you post a map with the Bobcats logo?

When golf and tennis ratings are better than the NBA, somethings not right.

What shoes is Steven Jackson wearing at 7:03

Nice.