GARLAND – Since he purchased the Dallas Mavericks on Jan. 4, 2000, owner Mark Cuban has attended the National Basketball Association’s annual Draft Lottery just one time.
And that was in 2000.
Cuban’s impressions of the made-for-TV event?
“I hated it, so that’s why I’ve never gone back,” Cuban said on Saturday. “It means we didn’t make the playoffs.”
The Draft Lottery will be held May 15 in Chicago. And the Mavs will send Chicago native Michael Finley – the team’s vice-president of basketball operations — to the Windy City to represent them.
Like Cuban, Donnie Nelson also has attended the Draft Lottery just once.