The independent investigation that dropped today detailing the Mavericks long and toxic workplace culture was never going to change much regarding my feelings of Mark Cuban.
Without the report, we knew that Cuban knowingly employed a convicted domestic abuser for seven years after the employee was arrested. We knew that Cuban was aware of the behavior of an employee with a long record of inappropriate workplace conduct, the same employee who left a used condom in the office. We knew that despite Cuban’s claim to ignorance of the culture of the organization he runs, that it’s impossible for a leader to be blameless when the workplace for somewhere you run has been so toxic and so awful for 20 years — literally the entire time Cuban has owned the team.