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Mark Cuban Fined for Referee Tweeting

3/29/2009 3:30 PM ET By Will Brinson

    • Will Brinson
    • Will Brinson is a FanHouse Blogger
Mark Cuban recently utilized everyone's favorite social media tool, Twitter, in order to criticize the referees in a recent Mavericks-Nuggets game. Cuban wondered why the crew in stripes didn't tag J.R. Smith for coming off the bench to taunt Antoine Wright.

Matt Watson pointed out, at the time, that Cuban would probably have a rather large fine coming from the NBA, primarily because David Stern does not care one bit for referee criticism. Well, it appears, based on Cubes' latest Tweet, that Watson was spot on.

That's because Cuban just announced, via Twitter, that he "just found out got fined25k by nba.) nice"

Presumably, Cuban intended to use a ";)" or ":)" right? Which is amazing, because the guy just got tattooed to the tune of $25,000, for a public statement.

Of course, the Twitter issue raises an interesting debate about whether or not Cuban should be allowed to discuss the referees in a place like social media or on a blog (obviously, speaking directly to a group of media members won't cut it, but at what point do we start considering this a First Amendment issue?)

For now, though, Cuban should just be glad that Scott Skiles isn't running the NBA; otherwise he might find himself fined way more than 25k and banned from Twitter altogether.

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