The Dallas Mavericks and DeAndre Jordan had come to an agreement on a four-year, $80 million deal but the Los Angeles Clippers swooped in, literally, and got Jordan to re-sign with the team at the last minute. As you would expect, there’s now animosity between the two teams but the two owners Mark Cuban and Steve Ballmer came together to talk things out.
Cuban is trying to get people to download his CyberDust app so he keeps delivering messages through there (I doubt it’ll work). Anyways here’s what he said via the Dallas Morning News:
Hey mavs fans. So I had a nice conversation with Steve Ballmer, owner of the Clippers yesterday during our NBA meetings.
It started off more than a little frigid , but we both cleared the air on a few things.
I told him exactly what I told other owners, I didn’t have a problem with his hail Mary approach to keeping a player. I understood why they did it. And even how they did it. They got their player back. End of story.
They are still a few unresolved issues that the NBA will have to work through but one I don’t feel is an issue is the moratorium .
Nothing that happened with this deal was the result of the moratorium
The thing about the NBA is that you don’t know which deals are the good deals and which arrows you avoided till you start playing the games
My guess is that we open the season against the Clippers. That’s when the real fun will being
+letsgomavs
