Are you shocked by the Mavericks’ start? Cuban: You know, I’m not thrilled with the composition of the team. I think we’re imbalanced. We don’t have enough depth at point guard. We don’t have somebody who’s a creator that gets other people shots or enough of that. And so I didn’t think we were going to crush it and start off 8-0, but I didn’t expect 2-6 [as of Friday].”
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Cuban: When (Davis) he is that player, we’re obviously better. But you can’t ask a big that’s not meant to bring the ball up the court every play, to do that all the time. That’s really, really hard, and it’s difficult. But we really didn’t have him and Kyrie at all. So between those two together, we’re always going to be in every game, but still, our roster composition, even with everybody healthy, still has some shortcomings and and that’s the issue. But there’s no question. AD is like an incredible Hall of Fame player. You know, you know are on off with him right now. His net rating is really spectacular, but you can’t play him 48 minute, and that’s the problem. Dallas Morning News | Nov. 11, 2025
Your thoughts about what this team would be if Kyrie Irving were healthy, or when he gets back. Cuban: I think we’ll be better. Obviously, him, AD and Dereck Lively all being on the court would be better, but we still have those shortcomings. We have Klay as a three point shooter. D-Lo (D’Angelo Russell) can shoot some threes, mostly off the dribble and that’s it. PJ is a good 3-point point shooter, but we can’t really run five out. We have to go small ball with PJ or small ball with Coop at the five, believe it or not, in order to run five out to really create space. And that makes life more difficult for us. And other than Coop and to a certain extent, D-Lo, we don’t have that point guard that can get us into our offense and create shots at the end of the game, when the pressure really builds up and, you know, teams are all playing all out. I think that really hurts us. And so even with Kai back, there’s still going to be some of those issues, even though he’d obviously help us with additional shooting, creation and scoring. Dallas Morning News | Nov. 11, 2025
Pablo Torre : So I checked in with Malik’s parents, Michael and Deena. (They are lovely.) They now understand what happened. And Malik has deleted the above IG video. I also talked to @ClutchPoints. Which apologized and quickly corrected the post (see below). Now: how was this mistake made? I suspect that AI was used to scrape my episode’s transcript, and it generated that erroneous summary. (You may recall my frustration with this from the Mark Cuban debates.) Because anyone who listened knows I never reported that. But I do admit I may be responsible, in part because this week, before all this, @pablofindsout hired an actual witch to curse AI. Quote: “AI needs to slip up so badly that everyone can see that this is a bad investment.” I am now worried that this is a Monkey’s Paw scenario. x.com | Nov. 1, 2025
Pablo Torre: “The conspiracy out there, you know, is that: Why would he take so much less? Mark Cuban: He wanted Tim Duncan money. He was at his age. And remember, the cap — I went back and looked — was $58 million three years in a row, right? It wasn’t going up at all. And it was: How do you manage your cap?” “And Tim Duncan had done a three-for-30 deal. And I vividly remember having the conversation. He’s like, ‘I’d like to get Tim Duncan money.’ I’m like, ‘D, okay — cap stayed flat. Here’s what we want to—’ And he was like, ‘Okay.'” “And then the next year — 2016 — when the cap went up, we were able to pay a lot more. YouTube | Oct. 15, 2025
Pablo Torre: “Do you think the Knicks, at the end here, should be worried about an upcoming episode of Mark Cuban Finds Out?” Mark Cuban: “You know, that’s behind me. You know — more power to JB. More power to everything.” “Was I happy that they only got dinged for a second-round pick? No. No. It should have been far worse, but — it is what it is.”YouTube | Oct. 15, 2025
Did the Mavericks circumvent the salary cap with Dirk Nowitzki in 2014?” Mark Cuban: “No.” Pablo Torre: “Very good. Do you think the Knicks may have circumvented the cap in taking Jalen Brunson from your Mavericks?” Mark Cuban: “I don’t know.” Pablo Torre: “A different answer.” Mark Cuban: “Yeah, I don’t know.” Pablo Torre: “Okay. I just think there was a lot at play there.” Mark Cuban: “Yeah.” YouTube | Oct. 15, 2025
Pablo Torre: Do you think the Knicks at the end here should be worried about an upcoming episode of Mark Cuban finds out? Mark Cuban: You know, that’s behind me. You know, more power to Jalen Brunson. More power to everything. Was I happy that they only got dinged for a second-round pick? No. No. It should have been far worse, but is what it is. YouTube | Oct. 14, 2025
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