Where are the Dallas Maverick Faithfull?

Shannon · June 21, 2006

4) If the public didn't want a person with Mark Cuban's personality to be a public figure, they shouldn't have made him a public figure.

I think he actually bought his way into being a public figure - so he should be responsible for himself.

SouthernMustang · June 21, 2006

1) I don't think that his owning a professional sports team makes him responsible to anyone but himself. He's the OWNER. I also believe that he has no obligation to the public other than to attempt to provide them with the best Mavericks basketball product he can. And he does this.
2) I,too, think it's ridiculous for the person who's being asked dumb questions by reporters to be the one to complain about it. It should only be people with no interest or involvement or context with these questions to complain about them. That makes much more sense.
3) Yeah, I can't stand those celebrities who want to do those bad things like EAT and WALK down the street without having a camera shoved in their face. Why would anyone complain about that?
4) If the public didn't want a person with Mark Cuban's personality to be a public figure, they shouldn't have made him a public figure.
5) The sheer irony of a person willing to spend pages and paragraphs complaining about an owner of a sports team (of which he's not a fan) complaining about things that actually pertain to him is mind-boggling.
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1. If you don't want to be a public figure, my first advice would be "Don't buy a sports team." If you want to buy a sports team and remain out the press' eye, don't act in such a way that it encourages publicity. Storming the court to go after refs and cussing up storms is not the way to avoid the press. It's a public job, that he entered by buying a team, he knew that going into it.

2. You are the owner of a team... you are going to get asked stupid questions by the press. How hard is it to say "I'm not going to answer those types of questions" instead of verbally giving the press the finger and "daring" them to ask real questions? Just practice a little self-restraint.

3. Because celebrities are always in the tabloids for eating.. I was thinking more along the lines of being drunk in public, drinking and driving, etc. Which would parallel the situations where Cuban is caught cussing and acting inappropriately in public. That is the price of being a famous/public figure.

4. He did this himself, by buying a sports team... buy a software company if you don't want people to put you in magazines.

5. I like to talk sports, both sports I like and that I don't like. I like to talk about athletes, owners, etc. that I like and don't like. I've said I admire Cuban's passion for the Mavs, and there's no doubt he turned around a franchise.. but I think you can still be passionate about your team without acting juvenile. Clapping for the other team after the finish of the series last night was a good step in the right direction.

Monkeypox · June 21, 2006

Do you have a job? Do you have any aspect of your job you don't like?

You chose to be a sports fan, so I think you shouldn't complain about things in sports you don't like.

SouthernMustang · June 22, 2006

Do you have a job? Do you have any aspect of your job you don't like?
You chose to be a sports fan, so I think you shouldn't complain about things in sports you don't like.
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Yes, there are things I don't like about my job. Do I go and complain to the bosses and throw temper tantrums about things when I think it's unfair? Hell no, that's how you get in trouble and develop a reputation. What happens when you develop a reputation? All of the people above you start to look for reasons to make your life miserable at work... so is Cuban really helping his cause by acting the way he does? If we apply this to a real world situation, no. There are ways to be passionate and institute change; temper tantrums are usually not the way to effectively go about things.

If I was a sports owner or in the public eye, I would not complain about things in an undiplomatic manner. Our opinions differ because you don't think that public figures should have to act differently than those not in the public eye. I think on that topic we'll just have to agree to disagree.