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I got this off Reddit.

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I'm not exactly sure what Gavin Mulloy's roll was with the Mavs, but he a Cuban had a heated exchange on Facebook.

It starts out with Gavin making a post "Cuban should be run out of Dallas." . Here's what followed. Some of these quotes were not directly at each other specifically.

Gavin Mulloy - "the Cuban cucklords are wild. Guy has always been a dork trying to buy his way into being cool."

Cuban - "yeah. F him. He’s always been a dork trying to buy his way into being cool. "

Gavin - "Go dig up his quotes on the responsibility of an owner of a franchise and being a Shepard of a franchise, to sell to the Adelsons flies in the face of that. He did this to get casino $$."

Gavin - "who hired Nico....Cuban. he has blood on his hands here, he's just doing better damage control than Mavs"

Cuban - "did I miss your complaints when we went to the finals last year ? How upset were you then ?"

Gavin - "bro, this is so "do you like those super bowls, I hope you did very much"."

Gavin - "Better question is why did he tell us he'd remain in control of Basketball Ops and not get that in writing?"

Gavin - "man, he has repeatedly stated that owning a local sports team comes with obligations and you are a sheppard who just steers it. To sell to these folks is a complete rebuke of that ideal, which he understood. Culture > Business. It's why fandom is required. He also lied that he would maintain basketball ops. He would get that in writing, as any business person knows. His office was emptied day of sale. I was there."

Cuban - "Thanks for all the laughs!"

Cuban - "Hey Gavin Mulloy how much of a bonus did you get when I sold ?"

Gavin - "not enough to make up for the Luka trade. I'd give your dirty $$ back for Luka to be here, how about you?"

Cuban - "Gavin you didn’t say a word when it showed up in your account. Did you ? Sure looked good when we made it to the finals didn’t it ?I did every damn thing I could for 23 years. Kept prices lower than not only any nba team , but lower than college teams too. I had $2 tickets for multiple years. When I sold there were always 4k tickets under $29I made money 2 out of 23 years I was the majority owner. Lost hundreds of millions of dollars. And you kept on collecting your salary. So my $dirty dollars didn’t get a peep out of you those 23 years. Or when you got your check every two weeks. Or when you got your bonus Go back to what I said when I sold the team. I didnt want my kids and family to have to deal with people like you. I honestly got tired of the growing number of fans who became pricks on social media. People exactly like you. I paid your salary. I paid you a bonus I didn’t have to give you. The Nico and the new owners do something none of us liked and you decide to try to fuck with me. Thank you for confirming I made the right decision."

Gavin - "Mark if Money was my goal, I'd never take a paycut like I did to work at the Mavs silly. Everyone warns you of how underpaid you will be there. Your staff warns people. You don't get to dodge blame for selling it to the people you did. You hired Nico. Did you lie when you said you were going to maintain basketball ops control, or did you make a terrible business deal by not getting that in writing? People in Dallas see you at fault here and that wont go away. Your PR tour won't change that."

Cuban - "Gavin actually I fully expected to run basketball. The nba wouldn’t let me put it in the contract. They took it out. Just like they won’t let the Celtics put it in. I thought they would stick to their word because they didn’t know the first thing about running a team. Someone obviously changed their mind But that’s in the past. Life is too short to deal with thousands of people like you. It used to be fun engaging with the fans , win or lose, we wanted what was best for the Mavs. We shared in the good and bad. There was always some level of optimism. Even after disappointment Then the whole “get Luka some help “ nonsense started. Non stop online. Then it seemed like it turned into more fun for people to complain than to enjoy the Mavs or the nba Between dealing with the nba and their idiocy and fans like you, it wasn’t worth the non stop shit. Why would I want to keep on losing that much money so I could take shit from people like you , and then my kids could take over and get shit. Why would I do that to them ?I mean I literally left 40m plus on the table so that I could reward the people who worked for the Mavs. Never really thought I would get shit for it. Live and learn. I love the game and the Mavs. But It’s a lot more fun to just be a fan. I was a fan when Perot owned the team. I can be a fan now. MFFL"

Gavin - "so you admit you sold to someone who knows nothing about running a basketball team, with a checkered past and expected them to stay true to their words. Would you call that a good business decision? Or did the money make you not care if the fans got f'ed?"

Gavin - " I don't think it's SCENE yet, me & my folks don't cower."

There was a lot of comments by other people but these are the quotes from Gavin and Cuban.
Link to full post - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12EGeskc4aD/


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I sure would like to know who Gavin is. He seems like a real peach and a disgruntled employee. I won’t defend Marks basketball decisions over the years here because that no longer matters to me. But what he is saying does ring true for the most part. In 2001 I moved to those cheap $10 season seats very near the top of the arena. We would often see Mark up there before the game. He did seem to care about the fans and our team. He did seem generous and he has been the King of Loyalty to some of his players. I loved being in the arena both in the 80s in the 5th row and everything in between. ( The annual choose a seat event was my friend as was the opportunity to sell playoff games for a boatload of money).