In an appearance on the Intersections podcast (Instagram video link), former Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban said he doesn’t regret selling the team in December 2023 — but he does regret who he sold it to, as Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News relays.
“I don’t regret selling. I regret who I sold to,” Cuban said in a teaser clip released Monday. “I made a lot of mistakes in the process, and I’ll leave it at that.”
Cuban sold the majority of his shares in the team to Miriam Adelson and her son-in-law, Las Vegas Sands CEO Patrick Dumont. Dumont has been the Mavericks’ governor since the sale was completed.
Cuban, who still controls a 27% stake in the Mavs, said when the sale was announced that he would still be the team’s top basketball decision-maker, but it turned out he had no contractual grounds for that role.
As Christian Clark of The Athletic notes, it was evident in February 2025 that Cuban’s influence in the organization had waned considerably when Dumont signed off on the decision to trade Luka Doncic. Former general manager Nico Harrison, who was hired by Cuban and was dismissed by Dumont in November, reportedly led those negotiations.
Cuban still attends the majority of Dallas’ home games, according to Clark. The Mavericks are currently 24-50, the sixth-worst record in the NBA.
Cuban told hosts Tom Leppert and Kyle Waldrep he sold the Mavs because “it’s a big emotional commitment” and he didn’t want his children to be involved with the team.
“You hear the passion and everything,” Cuban said. “Now imagine going up and down like that every single game. That’s hard. …
“My kids, they were coming of age where they would be of the mindset (that) maybe they want to work at the Mavs, and I didn’t want that for them. … If fans don’t like what you’re doing or the team’s not doing well, you’re the worst human being on the planet, and they treat you that way.”
Miriam Aselson is a straight up SCUMBAG. Jussayin.
I coulda told Cuban that the Adelsons were terrible folks! And that woulda been just a google search smh! Seems weird he couldn’t foresee how crappy they’d be
For a guy who thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, he seems to do allot of dump stuff.
Losing in a moron-idiot-scum-off to Adelson is insane
Are there any billionaires who aren’t total morons? Cuban just falling over himself here…so why should we listen to anything he ever says? Billionaires are such a waste of all our time on Earth.
Buy it back. Let him buy the Vegas team …..
There👏 solved
Guy has more money than he can spend in a thousand years but still sold his prized possession in order to have more money he can never spend.
sold it to Trumpers and is surprised the team crashed smh
I don’t really believe him, I think he’s just annoyed he looks bad now and wants to save face.