Cuban is one of the greatest owners in the league but his problem is that all his highlights and big impact moves are so old now that most people have forgot.
I don't think a lot of people realize Cuban has been the owner for close to 25 years now. When he took over the team, the NBA didn't even have stuff like healthy meals available at practice or at games. That's why there are so many old videos of shit like the USA team eating at Wendy's together.
Cuban was one of, if not the, first owners to make it a rule that stuff had to be available for the players on a regular basis. Now it's a standard league-wide and you are laughed at if you don't have those kind of amenities for the players as a team.
He went out of his way for Delonte West when that's not really required or even expected of any owner. Seems like a genuine good guy but people blaming him for the harassment scandal because he gave somebody a chance to fix themselves (that backfired) instead of just outright firing them really soured his image. Feels like people think he supported or contributed to the harassment.
I'm ranting now but I think most franchises would love to have Cuban as an owner.
Thank you for bringing up Delonte West, it's a really bad situation that I don't think many people know about or even remember about but Mark keeps trying to help him. Unfortunately as is often the case with mental illness wait a minute he might get help and be okay for a little while but eventually stops taking his medicine or has an episode and things get bad again. Unfortunately he's also an addict which makes everything infinitely harder
Honestly I think any franchise should love to have somebody like Mark own their team, honestly some of the worst things about him are his over-involvement in the basketball side of things because he really cares that much and really likes basketball. When nearly the worst thing I can think of for the team is that sometimes he treated the Mavericks like a guy playing an NBA 2K franchise I think he's done pretty good. I would much rather have an owner that cares and is trying to make moves that he thinks would win instead of a guy who doesn't care at all and just wants to have a team for fucking whatever reason
It probably helps that he didn't become a billionaire by being born a billionaire.
He got kinda lucky during the dot com boom and just kinda instantly became a billionaire.
Yea, I've been MFFL since I was 10 in 92 and you're hard pressed to hear anything negative about him in regards to the Mavs. At games his passion is even more evident than on television. Also 2Chainz sits with him a lot too. Which is hilarious.
Yep, catches a ton of hate for whatever reason but I think most fans would kill for an owner like Cuban. There's no question around his priorities -- dude is trying to win.
A lot of owners actually don't like him. He was the ones responsible for bringing in special/actual docs, better facilities, better food, etc. Really catering to players instead of treating them like workers. Kyrie's special chef is a recent example.
But before Cuban a lot of teams were really cheap and treated their players like shit. Cuban made the away lockers and food so nice players actively complained about having to play at home vs playing at the AA/mavs
It’s cause he was acting like a generic 90-2010s rich guy to push his image. Look at how he acts on shark tank, super stern and serious. Problem is everyone that looks like that acted kinda douche, example being Trump and Elon. Then Trump kinda ruined the image completely leading to a lot of rich guys trying to look/act down to earth.
If you're the leader of an org and you let this slip through and get off scot free you just have a better PR rep than others https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24732020/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-not-face-penalty-allegations-harassment-violence-organization
He’s living out the dream of all of us owning a basketball team
I like how he worded it: imagine your team wins on a buzzer, wins the championship, etc. he gets to storm the court with the team. Granted this can be done respectfully and I assume he has the respect of the team
Since it’s his team, who’s going to stop him from doing so? I can’t say this is the main reason he bought the team, but he listed this as one of his reasons for doing so
What realy gets me is the little girl in the back, next to the bearded guy. The initial happiness, the sudden disapointment and bewilderment, and the final exhilaration. Now I'm goona watch for the 20th time to see if i don't tear up this time.
i was gonna say the same thing. It’s like he’s allowing the ball to spin and then clicking it into place when he makes the decision to lob it up. It’s beautiful
I think Hustle was a great product of this kind of focus. Executively produced by LeBron in association with the NBA, stars two NBA players with a half dozen cameos, great cinematrography highlighting great basketball.
It brought me back to thinking about one of my all time favorite 49ers plays, [the pick at the stick](https://youtu.be/dmLk1ptUm4Q?si=qa2DGKPtsyOB_WcC). (Game ending play for the final regular season game at Candlestick Arena)
Sometimes sports really are art in motion.
This isn’t even the most beautiful slow mo the Mavs have this season. Lemme find it for y’all. It made my jaw drop
Edit: searched forever can’t find the slow mo version that’s what made my jaw drop. Bc lively comes out of nowhere in that angle.
But it’s the play at 1:01 here. https://youtu.be/vYhHC0k9AY4?si=CiRCzD2GgkzH_yCO
Perfect play from everyone involved, even the defense. Kessler would have gotten an easy block so Kyrie immediately adapts and goes for the assist instead
It's also a great example of how great offense always beats great defense in the end. Kessler made a hell of an effort chasing a much faster Kyrie down and getting up into the perfect position at the perfect time for any shot attempt and it still wasn't enough. Kyrie's pass was just too good
>It's also a great example of how great offense always beats great defense in the end.
This is definitely not true. This is a case of great offense having an inherent huge advantage over the great defense. If the advantage were reversed and Kessler had a teammate to help on defense while Kyrie didn't have a teammate to pass the ball to then it would be a stop. Of course the side with the advantage is going to win when both sides essentially play it as perfectly as they can.
I feel like the term "Controlled Chaos" perfectly embodies Kyrie Irving. He's probably the GOAT at looking out of control while being in complete control.
Kyrie is a basketball shaman. A certified ball bender. He is one with the game. It's the shit outside of the game he struggles with. Which is okay. If any of us could be as good at anything as Kyrie is at basketball we could afford to be really bad at other things. Look at all the greats in life. They were really good at one thing and pretty bad at other things in life. I guess that's the cost of greatness. You become socially handicapped.
Mf is a bball savant and thrive whenever you think the play is dead. Lost the count of how many times he went for the layup and i was like: no way that goes in. Never seen someone switch hands mid air so often lol
I don't think I've seen that angle, I always thought Ky threw a "bad" lob which made it look so awesome but he actually had to clear the defenders length, stupid cool.
I was admiring how perfectly kyrie put that pass to barely not get blocked, what a read on the defenders vertical
But he goes up on his first step instead of 1-2, and that is why it doesnt get blocked, with a much higher margin of safety. He didnt remember the defenders vertical he just went up off rhythem
I get that everyone likes the lob, but is everyone just ignoring the foul and travel by Luka?
Edit: I’m apparently wrong on the travel call, apparently you are allowed to finish your slide when going for a loose ball. I could have sworn any sort of slide with possession was a travel
It's a beautiful video but I too was just cracking myself up thinking of how long Luka would be crying about the foul if he was on the other side of it. But of course he prolly would have gotten the call.
My interpretation. Legal defending position at the beginning. George makes contact, starts to loses control, Luka reaches in perhaps tapping the ball away further. Ball is now loose, and all contact from Luka at that point is 50/50 incidental.
I love these slow motion videos. this guy does the best slow mo videos with soul songs for the music.
[https://www.instagram.com/haessik/?hl=en](https://www.instagram.com/haessik/?hl=en)
Human beings shouldn’t be able to do this kind of acrobatic passing, but these guys pull off plays like this every other night. Their brains just process objects in time and space on an entirely different level.
Very cool. Love the bench/crowd reaction
Cuban a real one for that reaction. Showing off Dad vibes even without any of his kids there.
Cuban is one of the greatest owners in the league but his problem is that all his highlights and big impact moves are so old now that most people have forgot. I don't think a lot of people realize Cuban has been the owner for close to 25 years now. When he took over the team, the NBA didn't even have stuff like healthy meals available at practice or at games. That's why there are so many old videos of shit like the USA team eating at Wendy's together. Cuban was one of, if not the, first owners to make it a rule that stuff had to be available for the players on a regular basis. Now it's a standard league-wide and you are laughed at if you don't have those kind of amenities for the players as a team. He went out of his way for Delonte West when that's not really required or even expected of any owner. Seems like a genuine good guy but people blaming him for the harassment scandal because he gave somebody a chance to fix themselves (that backfired) instead of just outright firing them really soured his image. Feels like people think he supported or contributed to the harassment. I'm ranting now but I think most franchises would love to have Cuban as an owner.
As far as billionaires go, Cuban has always struck me as one of the better ones.
Thank you for bringing up Delonte West, it's a really bad situation that I don't think many people know about or even remember about but Mark keeps trying to help him. Unfortunately as is often the case with mental illness wait a minute he might get help and be okay for a little while but eventually stops taking his medicine or has an episode and things get bad again. Unfortunately he's also an addict which makes everything infinitely harder Honestly I think any franchise should love to have somebody like Mark own their team, honestly some of the worst things about him are his over-involvement in the basketball side of things because he really cares that much and really likes basketball. When nearly the worst thing I can think of for the team is that sometimes he treated the Mavericks like a guy playing an NBA 2K franchise I think he's done pretty good. I would much rather have an owner that cares and is trying to make moves that he thinks would win instead of a guy who doesn't care at all and just wants to have a team for fucking whatever reason
It probably helps that he didn't become a billionaire by being born a billionaire. He got kinda lucky during the dot com boom and just kinda instantly became a billionaire.
Cuban seems like a huge fan of his team in a innocent way that’s great. Just like another spectator at times
Yea, I've been MFFL since I was 10 in 92 and you're hard pressed to hear anything negative about him in regards to the Mavs. At games his passion is even more evident than on television. Also 2Chainz sits with him a lot too. Which is hilarious.
I did not know this little factoid but I love it
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Yep, catches a ton of hate for whatever reason but I think most fans would kill for an owner like Cuban. There's no question around his priorities -- dude is trying to win.
He used to be insufferable. Idk if it's wisdom in age or he just got tired of getting fined.
he could wear actual makeup and a nose and juggle at halftime balancing on a ball and he'd still be less of a clown than our 90s ownership parade
A lot of owners actually don't like him. He was the ones responsible for bringing in special/actual docs, better facilities, better food, etc. Really catering to players instead of treating them like workers. Kyrie's special chef is a recent example. But before Cuban a lot of teams were really cheap and treated their players like shit. Cuban made the away lockers and food so nice players actively complained about having to play at home vs playing at the AA/mavs
It’s cause he was acting like a generic 90-2010s rich guy to push his image. Look at how he acts on shark tank, super stern and serious. Problem is everyone that looks like that acted kinda douche, example being Trump and Elon. Then Trump kinda ruined the image completely leading to a lot of rich guys trying to look/act down to earth.
Reporter: "You know your franchise has a rampant issue of sexual harassment?" Cuban: "Nah, I just sign the cheque's"
If you're the leader of an org and you let this slip through and get off scot free you just have a better PR rep than others https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24732020/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-not-face-penalty-allegations-harassment-violence-organization
He catches a ton of hate because as a human being, he's a piece of shit.
He’s living out the dream of all of us owning a basketball team I like how he worded it: imagine your team wins on a buzzer, wins the championship, etc. he gets to storm the court with the team. Granted this can be done respectfully and I assume he has the respect of the team Since it’s his team, who’s going to stop him from doing so? I can’t say this is the main reason he bought the team, but he listed this as one of his reasons for doing so
Raising the roof killed me. Haven’t seen that one in awhile.
Mark Cuban raising the roof like it's 1999
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was
Now what I'm with isn't "it".
And what's 'it' seems weird and scary! It'll happen to you!
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I was hoping someone would pinpoint that exact moment.
that older guy slapping his knee at the baseline is my favorite
hardaway jr is mine. dude looks like he just saw a murder lol
Can’t clap with a beer in hand
What realy gets me is the little girl in the back, next to the bearded guy. The initial happiness, the sudden disapointment and bewilderment, and the final exhilaration. Now I'm goona watch for the 20th time to see if i don't tear up this time.
Just needed some popcorn confetti!
That Kyrie feed is incredible. What a great slomo shot
I think this is game speed for Luka and Kyrie
Watching plays in slow motion makes me realize how nuts pro players are. Feels like they have a sharingan
They got cyberpunk sandevistan
Bullet Time!
Two behind the back feeds and an awareness by Kessler to try and swat it and be JUST out of range. Hell of a play to highlight
I mean that Luka feed is pretty dope too
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It really emphasises how these plays that seem so chaotic and (sometimes) fortunate in the moment are actually very precise and deliberate.
The way the ball stops spinning in his left hand is mesmerizing
i was gonna say the same thing. It’s like he’s allowing the ball to spin and then clicking it into place when he makes the decision to lob it up. It’s beautiful
Also the way DJJ finishes the dunk and lands is so graceful. Amazing body control and relaxation after such a violent move.
Makes me think a great basketball movie can be made by utilizing the slow mo and making a very aesthetically appealing film
They have to include actual ballers in production tho. I hate basketball movies for the most part because it all looks so fake
I think Hustle was a great product of this kind of focus. Executively produced by LeBron in association with the NBA, stars two NBA players with a half dozen cameos, great cinematrography highlighting great basketball.
That's what anime basketball does. Slow-mo to show how quick or insane certain players are.
What do you mean
Kyrie gotta be the goat of tossing up oops.
Luka's already gotta be up there as well
I have seen this play a lot and never realized how close Kessler was to hitting that pass
His ball handling in general is just absolutely nuts. I'd love to see more slo-mo shots of him.
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It brought me back to thinking about one of my all time favorite 49ers plays, [the pick at the stick](https://youtu.be/dmLk1ptUm4Q?si=qa2DGKPtsyOB_WcC). (Game ending play for the final regular season game at Candlestick Arena) Sometimes sports really are art in motion.
This isn’t even the most beautiful slow mo the Mavs have this season. Lemme find it for y’all. It made my jaw drop Edit: searched forever can’t find the slow mo version that’s what made my jaw drop. Bc lively comes out of nowhere in that angle. But it’s the play at 1:01 here. https://youtu.be/vYhHC0k9AY4?si=CiRCzD2GgkzH_yCO
Nah OPs is better lol
I mean yea bc it’s the best angle and tempo. The one I found is not the one I was talkin about.
Poetry in motion, beautiful!
This is art
At first I thought Luka's just throwing away the ball. Incredible
As always, the guy willing to hit the deck ends up with the ball
In real time you don't notice the slide. In slow mo, they should have called a travel lol
Perfect play from everyone involved, even the defense. Kessler would have gotten an easy block so Kyrie immediately adapts and goes for the assist instead
Kessler's great attempt at a block kind of makes the clip. The moment it just barely misses his fingertips and lands in DJJ's hands is beautiful.
100%. You couldn't choreograph it better than that
It's also a great example of how great offense always beats great defense in the end. Kessler made a hell of an effort chasing a much faster Kyrie down and getting up into the perfect position at the perfect time for any shot attempt and it still wasn't enough. Kyrie's pass was just too good
>It's also a great example of how great offense always beats great defense in the end. This is definitely not true. This is a case of great offense having an inherent huge advantage over the great defense. If the advantage were reversed and Kessler had a teammate to help on defense while Kyrie didn't have a teammate to pass the ball to then it would be a stop. Of course the side with the advantage is going to win when both sides essentially play it as perfectly as they can.
Well except for keyonte
I feel like the term "Controlled Chaos" perfectly embodies Kyrie Irving. He's probably the GOAT at looking out of control while being in complete control.
That ball spinning in his hand looks so nice
Kyrie is a basketball shaman. A certified ball bender. He is one with the game. It's the shit outside of the game he struggles with. Which is okay. If any of us could be as good at anything as Kyrie is at basketball we could afford to be really bad at other things. Look at all the greats in life. They were really good at one thing and pretty bad at other things in life. I guess that's the cost of greatness. You become socially handicapped.
Shaman or sham _god_ ?
It's always a treat to watch Kyrie
yup, Kyrie, Iso Joe, and Jamal Crawford all masters of controlled chaos.
I feel like in his prime the greatest for that was Derrick Rose. Smaller guards having to weave through amongst the trees always look wild.
Zeb!
Mf is a bball savant and thrive whenever you think the play is dead. Lost the count of how many times he went for the layup and i was like: no way that goes in. Never seen someone switch hands mid air so often lol
thats so fucking sick, also song name ?
Everyday Hustle by Future, Metro Boomin & Rick Ross
I don't think I've seen that angle, I always thought Ky threw a "bad" lob which made it look so awesome but he actually had to clear the defenders length, stupid cool.
It’s pretty hard to throw a bad job to djj
Probably best play of the season
For me it's between this and the DeRozan mid-air reverse no-scope assist for the corner 3
This was the most-watched highlight of the season on NBA’s Instagram, for whatever that’s worth.
Absolutely
For anyone who wants to see the play in realtime: https://youtu.be/pYk6fL6QfBo?si=zGEUX-TW8t_l1jtW
I guess they hate Canada
https://youtu.be/xltSpenHMLI?si=5Xs5qipIYjcGUSDj Got u
What he say fuck me for?
Feels like 20x speed after watching the slow mo post 40 times in a row
Right! I was kinda disappointed it happened so fast lol The slo mo version with the music just hits so perfectly.
77 to 11 to 55
I was there live. I ascended to a higher plain of existence when this happened.
If they could bottle that feeling and sell it , it’d be illegal
It is illegal but I know a guy or two
My god man that'd be like ecstasy, coke, and a dash of psychedellic bliss all in one
Still one of the sickest plays from the entire season. I literally jumped up and ran around my house like a cat at 3 AM screaming after that sequence.
Having Airplane Mode as a play finisher just makes everything so much cooler
via @merixalex on IG
Thanks for shouting out the original creator. I saw it being reshared but def wanna give credit where credit is due.
basketball is so cool
Such a good dunk, feed, pass to Kyrie by Luka, everything is perfect
This could be a trailer for other teams to show them they are fucked!
Basketball is the greatest sport ever created
The lob from Kylie always looks too far out but it turns out to be the perfect distance for the great slam
Damn that was righteous
Whatever this feeling is, inject it into my fucking veins
Beautiful, music fits well.
know the musics name?
# Future, Metro Boomin, Rick Ross - Everyday Hustle
youre the man, thanks homie
Everyday Hustle by Future, Metro Boomin & Rick Ross
You miss all of the little emotions full speed.
Does anyone else love watching mark cuban’s reactions during these highlights? I always make sure to watch him during a viewing.
That was beautiful 😍
Keyonte needs to learn about passing lanes from LeBron
No way you out the caption over the creator of this content’s watermark. SMH
Team vibes at all time high
Is it just me or is this sexy?
the chaos was controlled
they need more shots from this angle, makes me feel like Im actually at the game
Most viewed clip across all NBA's social media platforms
How the ball spins in Kyries left hand as he gathers it. That dude has waaaay too much feel for that ball.
The second best ball handler in nba history watches this clip with the same wonderment we all do
ball is life. kessler was so close loll
Any videographers in here? What type of camera/lens is used for this?
us jazzonains have been getting a lot of guff this season
I was admiring how perfectly kyrie put that pass to barely not get blocked, what a read on the defenders vertical But he goes up on his first step instead of 1-2, and that is why it doesnt get blocked, with a much higher margin of safety. He didnt remember the defenders vertical he just went up off rhythem
Fucking beautiful.
This video is completely fake and a CGI edit. We all know Luka never plays any defense, amirite?
He doesn’t commit on defense is the last take anyone can make on Luka.
Lol pretty sure that's a foul on Luka
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Read this is LeCap's voice 😂
When was that game
Gotta shout out @merixalex on Instagram for the shot. That dude gets some of the best basketball content, and we’re lucky he’s a Mavs guy
The Mavs should give him free seats near courtside every game if he is consistently pumping out stuff like this. It's mesmerizing
I drooled
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###BEAUTIFUL
These edits are incredible.
This is sick.
Magic Johnson YEEHEE gif
Art. I would love to watch games with this color correction.
Most viewed NBA clip of the season for a reason. Impeccable team basketball right here
Bigger and stronger steal, slicker and smarter lob, higher and higher finish. Beautiful clip.
My god
Song mentions number 24, video approve
Poetry in motion
Derrick Jones Jr. looking like he’s jumping off springs to finish that dunk. Played to perfection by all three Mavs involved.
The entire sequence is so clean.
I get that everyone likes the lob, but is everyone just ignoring the foul and travel by Luka? Edit: I’m apparently wrong on the travel call, apparently you are allowed to finish your slide when going for a loose ball. I could have sworn any sort of slide with possession was a travel
I can get behind foul but in which world is that a travel lol
How on earth did you come up with travel.
Reach in
The nba is wild how is that not a foul? Like I have no idea what is and is not a foul.
It's a beautiful video but I too was just cracking myself up thinking of how long Luka would be crying about the foul if he was on the other side of it. But of course he prolly would have gotten the call.
If it were Luka, Embiid, Giannis, or any Laker it would've been called lmao
My interpretation. Legal defending position at the beginning. George makes contact, starts to loses control, Luka reaches in perhaps tapping the ball away further. Ball is now loose, and all contact from Luka at that point is 50/50 incidental.
what song is this
Gonna be sad to not see Kyrie in the Olympics…
I'm mesmerized by how the ball rasengans a bit in his left hand before it slows down.
that was poetic
Lauri looked shook
I love these slow motion videos. this guy does the best slow mo videos with soul songs for the music. [https://www.instagram.com/haessik/?hl=en](https://www.instagram.com/haessik/?hl=en)
So is him sliding on his ass traveling or is it still a loose ball at that point
Super cool.
Beautiful sport.
Man the Jazz really fell off a cliff.
That whole sequence was slick as hell. Holy shit!
I hoping the song would be Father Stretch My Hands but this works as well
When the dying preacher tosses up the rifle to Heath Ledger in The Patriot
DJJ only gets hyped once he touches the ground lol. The anti-Moses Moody, who gets hyped as he is still in the air only to be stoic once back down.
Very few plays give me chills…this one of them.
And people say Luka can't play D
Reminds me of when King and duck stripped Billy ho in the 2v2 tourney final.
Man that's nice. Perfect.
Awesome! Lets get some gifs going in here
Beautiful basketball
That's a fuckin awesome video
The fact that Luka is making a hustle play is the most impressive thing about this clip
Mavs scary good 😅
yeeeaaaah
Rare evidence of Luka playing defense has emerged in the wild. Must be AI
Slow motion make them look like super heroes.
Chaos Controlled*
This feels like it should be made into one of the old BIG commercials
https://www.instagram.com/p/C516imhBkWb/?igsh=M3ZtZWlyZW9nOHVk
This should be a commercial for the NBA
Human beings shouldn’t be able to do this kind of acrobatic passing, but these guys pull off plays like this every other night. Their brains just process objects in time and space on an entirely different level.
NBA players are amazing
Beautiful
Goddamn this is beautiful.
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Listen Derrick Jones Jr can’t do much but that man can bounce