Billionaire bad-boy and NBA team owner Mark Cuban recently made news in Dallas by banning bloggers from his team’s locker room. Well, actually, he just banned Tim McMahon, the only blogger who had been a regular post-game fixture with the players. This guy wasn’t just some random Jason Kidd-worshipper. McMahon was writing for the online Dallas Morning News. Right after McMahon blogged about a grassroots fan movement to convince Cuban to fire his head coach.
Cuban defended himself by writing:
“I am of the opinion that a blogger for one of the local newspapers is no better or worse than the blogger from the local high school, from the local huge Mavs fan, from an out of town blogger.”
Translation: All bloggers suck, so we won’t waste locker-room oxygen on them. Oh yeah — he wrote this on his own blog. And Cuban isn’t just an idle key-tapper. He’s considered such a serious celebrity blogger that he delivered the keynote address at BlogWorldExpo just five months ago.
Quoth the tantrum-prone Cuban in November:
“Blogging isn’t just about people getting things off their chest, it’s a way for ideas and the truth to come out.”
Here’s a slice of truth, courtesy of Slam Online: Doesn’t a blogger ban mean that Dallas Mavericks players won’t have to listen to Cuban (a blogger) whine in the locker room any more?
Cuban is irrelevant - a terrible fate for a man with such a huge ego
Billionaire bad boy? That sounds weird for some reason. Like the worlds toughest tennis player. Or the meanest smurf in the land. It could just be because I’m enraged with jealousy.
Maverick fans relax and be happy, you’re not Knick fans.
Marc Cuban is an AMAZING man. dont hate. he worked since he was a kid comming out of pittsburgh. he rocks.
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