Mavericks Hire Rick Welts as New CEO

[F Gump]

I'm with you on all this, and I'd be pretty surprised if he's not a little salty about this whole thing already. The whole "Kidd and Harrison will still report to me" thing didn't even last for the rest of the initial season, and honestly, every day since he sold majority stake has demonstrated that he has been holding the franchise back for a while (despite being very good for it during his first decade).

Let's remember that the idea that Cuban would still be in control for as long as he wanted was never anything the Adelson-Dumont group stated. That is to say, I don't think their plan ever truly changed.

The fact that it was a mid-season sale made sense that they ride out the existing management for the remainder of that season. But the idea that a family would spend $4B or so for a company without having operational control never made any sense whatsoever, and from the outset it felt to me like Cuban was just being Cuban, making things up to try to make himself look better. The truth has always taken a back seat to his ego. (I also think that Cuban's stated rationale for the sale was highly fictitious, with just a small portion of truth included to try to mask the extensive fairytale portion.)