Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is refreshing in the fact that he is equally outspoken about his own shortcomings as he about the shortcomings he sees in others around the NBA.
So, when he was asked by Rolling Stone to talk about his biggest mistake as the man in charge in Dallas, Cuban wasted no time mentioning future NBA Hall-of-Famer Steve Nash.
Cuban was told by doctors and experts back in 2004 that Nash's body was bound to break down. The fiery Mavs owner listened, allowing Nash to head to Phoenix where he captured two NBA MVP awards along with helping to change how offense is played in the NBA.
Reflecting on that decision in his conversation with Rolling Stone, Cuban wishes he had made a more "educated" decision back then:
Letting Steve Nash go. I learned an expensive lesson. It took me too many years to realize that for some GMs, their number-one job wasn’t winning a championship, it’s keeping their job. It’s easy to look back and see my mistakes today. I wish I would have been smart enough to know better back then. I loved taking risks to win. Unfortunately some of them were not as educated as they should have been.
Letting Nash go was an "expensive lesson" especially for an owner who has done a fantastic job marketing the Mavs franchise. Add in Nash from 2004-2014, and there are potentially millions of dollars that could have gained having Nash and Nowitzki tear up the league for an extra decade.
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