OT: Mark Cuban — Draymond MSU shade

Submitted by roosterbaan on
This comment from Mark Cuban on Draymond Green and the quality of his education was too priceless to not share: "To try to turn it into something that it's not is ridiculous. Draymond can trash-talk on the court, but when he comes into our world, it doesn't fly. ... I guess it's because he went to Michigan State and didn't take any business classes, but you own equity. When you own a team, you own equity, shares of stock. That's called ownership. Tell him if he wants to take classes at Indiana's business school, I'll even pay for his classes and we'll help him learn that stuff." http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21277983/mark-cuban-says-warriors-dr…
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Amaizin' Blue

November 4th, 2017 at 5:12 AM ^

Acts like a crazed lunatic in the stands during Mavs games. But the more I see and hear him away from that, the more I like him. And he does spend money and takes care of his players. Guy speaks his mind and is actually pretty intelligent in doing so.

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SpinachAssassin

November 4th, 2017 at 6:09 AM ^

Big fan of Cuban as well. I don't want to needlessly elevate someone I don't know, yet he does seem to be cut from a different cloth compared to many megarich sports owners out there. To borrow from Jim Rome (don't hate me), he quite often has a take and doesn't suck.

#coolstorybro yet a friend actually randomly emailed a bunch of high net-worth individuals about his start-up idea. He wasn't getting replies yet after he found Cuban's email on the Mavs website and emailed him, Cuban replied and asked him to send his pitch deck.

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ThereWillBeNoHugs

November 4th, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^

Basically because he pissed off the former basketball commissioner every chance he could. He eventually cooled down, but not without shaking things up first. Furthermore, he invests in his players and seems to care for them. I wish he owned the Pistons.

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1VaBlue1

November 4th, 2017 at 7:49 AM ^

That's an awesome comment on the heels of what Draymond, foolishly, said.  One 'owns' a business, and pays employees to work for said business.  Nothing to do with people ownership.  Why does everything have to be taken to extremes?

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Rodriguesqe

November 4th, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^

I believe this started because Green went on a rant over Houstons' owner's statement about "inmates running the assylum" - a normally innocuous statement that blew up because we have a president is doing his best to divide the country.

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SalvatoreQuattro

November 4th, 2017 at 9:26 AM ^

because NFL and NBA teams are owned by white men and their rosters are filled largely with black men. Two things. Referencing slavery in this context is indicative of the racism of the person using it. It is racist because they connect white males ownership with a Slave master even though the two could not be anymore different. They would not have done so if the owner was a person of color. But worse than that it denigrates the experience of slaves. Slaves were beaten, raped, and sometimes killed. They had no rights. Not of movement or ability to say no to anything. There were no unions to help they. They lived in utter squalor. To compare extremely well paid athletes who live the life of luxury and who can quit anytime they want and who have federal laws and unions to protect their rights, to the above is so far beyond offensive that I question the sanity of the person who made such a comparison. History has been weapomized. It is being (mis)used in our ongoing culture war to silence or diminish political opponents. This really needs to stop.

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Wolverine91

November 4th, 2017 at 10:26 AM ^

Come on man, you know he knows better. He said this to politicize the word owner to mean slavey. There's no two ways about it. It's wrong but not surprising coming from NFL or NBA players. After all, they are being treated so poorly...

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Wolverine91

November 4th, 2017 at 11:02 AM ^

Where did I say I agreed with him that ALL athletes were uneducated? please enlighten me. If you're referring to his post that I agreed with, I mostly talked about racism and how people like to throw that word around for shits and giggles. I didn't say draymond was uneducated. In fact, I think he knew exactly what he was sayin, tryin to start a nonsense political war since it seems to be the norm nowadays.

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SalvatoreQuattro

November 4th, 2017 at 9:56 AM ^

Every bit as much as Bob McNair. That does not mean he is irredeemable. Only that he needs to be made aware of how grossly offensive his misuse of history is and that he needs to work on shedding the racial bigotry that he clearly holds. Racism and bigotry plagues this society from top to bottom with obvious different impacts from a class and racial aspect. It is well past time that we recognize that more than white men hold and express these type of behaviors. It is well past time that we all are vulnerable to the diseases of bigotry and hate.

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Toby Flenderson

November 4th, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^

The thing is, many of these professional athletes in whole are uneducated individuals who went to "football" and "basketball" school at university. They may of received a degree, but not an education.They cannot properly analyze and development quality arguments or have rational thoughts. Therefore, they look at memes from the internet and videos on youtube to gain their political knowledge and education.

 A large number of these athletes do not grasp what slavery in the United States was because they have no formal knowledge about life was as a slave. Instead, they look at Colin Kapernick and Jemele Hill as political icons and use their opinions as facts.

In general, people should stop looking at athletes as political activists, cultural warriors, and critical members of society because as a whole, these individuals are uneducated and underdeveloped mentally. If they couldn't catch a ball or shoot a basketball, sadly many of these individuals would not know what to do with their lives.

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MartinSr21

November 4th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^

"They cannot properly analyze and development quality arguments or have rational thoughts."

I think saying they cannot have rational thoughts might be taking this just a bit too far... Pretty sure people without college educations are fully capable of quality arguments and rational thought. I do agree with you that Colin and Jemele are not quality political icons.

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Toby Flenderson

November 4th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^

You are right, that was a poor choice of words so I apologize for the elitist attitude. I think what I am trying to get at is that many of these athletes that we hold as "models' for poltical engagement are not very educated individuals and not really developed in respect to their breadth of knowledge. Therefore, I get annoyed when people hold these people as proper authority when discussing poltical issues. 

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Sopwith

November 4th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^

First, I'm not sure who's holding people out as authority, but anyone is qualified to comment on political or social issues, educated or otherwise. If their facts are wrong, that should be pointed out and credibility as a political commentator will rise and fall as such, but the quality or quantity of education doesn't necessarily put you at the front of the line. Some of the best commentary comes from people who are living through social issues from a different end of things than those of us were lucky enough to be educated at places like Michigan.

Jeebus, man, my senior year of high school was the exact midpoint of my formal education years. I have political conversations with my barber, who I'm pretty sure didn't finish high school. I learn a lot from him.

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