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Fourteen years later: Relive Mark Cuban's April Fools' joke for the ages

On this date every year, various websites compile top 10 lists of the all-time sports April Fools' Day pranks.

"Every time there's a list, someone sends it to me," Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said with a smile earlier this week. "And I'm on it."

We're not going 10-deep with this list because two sports pranks rank so far above the others that they're in a league of their own. And, yes, one of them is Cuban's. This fact is not debatable, so don't even try.

On April 1, 2003, Cuban hired a fake NBA referee and had a faux shouting/shoving/wrestling match with the ref-impostor during a second-quarter timeout of a Mavericks-New Orleans game at American Airlines Center.