Mark Cuban is one of the few owners in all of sports that engages with supporters and maintains an open line of communication with them on social media. The Mavericks CEO isn’t afraid to own up to his mistakes and always confronts the music.
Steve Nash #13 of the Phoenix Suns
One fan asked Mark about his greatest accomplishment and mistake in his 24 years as the team’s primary decision-maker during an interview with Knicks talents Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson on the Roommates Show.
The owner of the Mavericks cited his greatest accomplishment as the Larry O’Brien Trophy, which is displayed on a shelf in his office. He acknowledged that letting Steve Nash go was his greatest mistake. He said,
“Probably not re-signing Steve Nash… Nashy was one that I screwed up really bad… So I was in a little bunker suite at the American Airlines Center when (Nash) called me back and we had set a number where we weren’t going to pay more, like idiots. He called me back and he said, ‘This is the number,’ and I wrote down on this pad that’s still on my desk to this day, ‘Mike Bibby Money.’”
Nash insisted that the Mavs make an offer akin to the one that Mike Bibby, who had signed a seven-year, $80.9 million deal extension with the Sacramento Kings in 2002, received. But because of his tiny frame, Mark doubted the guard’s long-term sturdiness. When Nash rejected his offer of “Mike Bibby Money,” he departed the team during the 2004 summer.
