2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[StepBackJay]

That's only relevant to him if he sells the team. Plus, Cuban seems intent on keeping the Mavs as a legacy asset means the growing "fair market value" of the Mavs won't ever be realized by him at all.

The reality is that a prized appreciating asset can't eat up your other assets, to keep it going year over year, no matter who you are, unless you plan to sell in the foreseeable future. If it's growing solidly, you can break even or even absorb a bit of negative at times, but you really need to figure out how it can offer you a reasonable amount of cash flow.

From that angle, the tax does matter. But if he doesn't want to pay tax like the big boys, when it's needed, Cuban needs to get out. This is a big market team with a strong fan base - no excuses.

I am not saying he should lose like a billion dollars a year or anything but owners are dishonest sometimes when they say they aren't making money (referring to yearly P&L). An appreciating asset grows wealth. Cubes is not short on liquidity so he doesn't need or want to sell the franchise.

https://www.si.com/nba/2018/09/21/nba-te...rge-market

This is old but says basically half of expenses are payroll. So Mavs payroll is like 120ish, double that would be 240. Their revenue is around 300 mil:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1967...ince-2006/

So maybe they make a profit or break even but the franchise appreciates every year. Cubes doesn't own the Mavs to make money per se, my guess is that he would own the Mavs even if it lost him money bc NBA teams are rich guy toys. That being said he is not losing money at all.