First: the quote from
Don Nelson on his $6.3 million arbitration victory over
Mark Cuban in a dispute over missing wages,
captured by Tim Kawakami of the
San Jose Mercury News and spread by
Ball Don't Lie and
TrueHoop.
This was just receiving what I've already earned and been owed for a long time. He just wanted to make life difficult for me. It's like a pimple on his behind. But it was a big number for me.
$6.3 million's a whole lotta bagels
^, but someone who
plays poker in Maui with Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson probably isn't struggling to keep cream cheese in the fridge. Still, Cuban's ridiculously wealthy, he owed Nellie this money, and in
Marc Stein's ESPN.com story, Cuban admits as much.
"I got exactly what I wanted out of the deal -- the true facts of the situation. ... It was all worth the hassle to find out what really happened."
In case you've forgotten, Cuban withheld the cash and sued Nelson for
using his secret knowledge of the Mavericks to beat them in the playoffs when coaching the Warriors. I'm shocked that this line of argument did not work!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-01-2008 @ 12:36PM
Ryne Nelson said...
I totally agree with Cuban. If you're ballin' enough to buy the Chicago Cubs, $6M is just a pain in the ass.
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8-01-2008 @ 1:31PM
nale said...
Tom, Use the either quote to get the full picture. Cuban
wanted the truth that Nelson was working for the Warriors while under contract with Dallas. It was the year BEFORE Nelson started coaching the Warriors that Nelson broke the non-competing clause. Not the year the Warriors beat Dallas.
"I got exactly what I wanted out of the deal -- the true facts of the situation," Cuban said via e-mail. "I feel a lot better knowing that under oath [Nelson] said that [during Dallas' NBA] Finals games [in 2006] that he was meeting with [Golden State's] GM and helping the Warriors work on their draft plans. [And] that he and his lawyers had started discussions more than a month before he took the job, not days as he said publicly."
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8-01-2008 @ 6:55PM
Richard Proulx said...
Another loss for Mark Cuban, BOO HOO!!! From his losses of the radical left movies he has tried to make successful to his assenine ownership abilities, good for him!!!
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8-11-2008 @ 7:44AM
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8-11-2008 @ 7:45AM
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