Please Rate the Dallas Mavericks Owners (1980-2025)

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Wab's unscientific rating

1. Mark Cuban
2. Don Carter
3. H. Ross Perot, Jr.
4. Miriam Adelson, Patrick Dumont

Perot gets an automatic last place. 

The Adelsons are too new to really judge. They've done some good in being willing to actually pay the tax (at least so far) and seemingly want to field a competitive team. Downside is that they probably couldn't care less about basketball and are more so using the Mavericks as an investment vehicle to build big real estate projects in the Dallas area. That's what got us The Trade. A good byproduct of that though means a competitive Dallas team helps their venture of real estate at the end of the day. So a 3rd place vote tentatively seems apt. 

Don Carter brought basketball to Dallas so I think an honorific 2nd place is deserved. He had some pretty ok years. Can't say I remember much of Carter.

Cubes for all his warts deserves the #1 spot. For better or worse he radically transformed the franchise and left it at a better spot than when he got it. Sure, since the title he became a pretty middling owner with a loud mouth. But he did truly care about this team and it's fans. I may not always see eye to eye with Cuban and how he wants to build a basketball team, but I can at least respect that he and I are in the same boat about being fans of said team.