It is a massive euphemism to say that Mark Cuban had no big hopes when he turned on the television in his main room to watch the Lottery of the NBA recovery on Monday evening.
“I was fully expecting what happened every year since 1980,” he wrote The news In a direct message Monday evening.
When his 15 -year -old son Jake joined him to look at the ESPN broadcast, Cuban probably did not have time to recite the Movericks’ Lotery Lookie Buckiness over the years.
Again, until December 2023, Cuban was the majority owner of the Mavericks for 23 years, more than half of the existence of the franchise now 45 years old, so Jake probably didn’t need to recall.
Like most Mavericks fans for life, Mark and Jake realized that when the NBA commissioner, Mark Tatum, revealed the first four cards – San Antonio, Atlanta, Chicago and Portland – it meant that Dallas had gone to the first four. But the choice n ° 1? A chance of 1.8%?
“When we spent the 11th after the 11th, I was still thinking” no means “, said Cuban. “But I called Patrick and I told him that we were in the first four.”
The governor of Mavericks, Patrick Dumont, to whom Cuban sold the majority of the interest of the franchise, with the mother-in-law of Dumont, Miriam Adelson, attended a track competition in Nevada in which one of his children was in competition.
When Tatum reached the last four choices, after an ESPN commercial break, the tension was as thick in the Cuban house as the multitudes of others in northern Texas. Tatum returned the fourth to the last card (Charlotte), then the third at the last one (Philadelphia).
It only left San Antonio and Dallas.
“Then my son and I bounce back as if we were watching a 3 -point match winner at idle,” said Cuban. “When they called the Spurs, we have gone mad.”
Cuban once again phoned Dumont. See? Moments like this can bring everyone together, including billionaires who do not agree with regard to Nico Harrison and Dumont’s decision to negotiate the franchise to face Luka Doncic on the night of February 1.
“The first call was of Patrick to congratulate him and shout as if we were two teenagers during a concert by Taylor Swift,” wrote Cuban. “LOL.
“We talked a few minutes just to take advantage of the moment,” said Cuban, “then called (Jason Kidd) to congratulate him.
“It was an incredible moment.”
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