But the owners who followed Cuban from tech into the league were as obscenely wealthy and enamored with their own intelligence.
Once, Cuban was a symbol of excessive tech wealth’s entrance into the league, pumping cash and employing a newfangled analytic approach to turn the Dallas Mavericks, an ignoble afterthought, into a prestige franchise with a hot new stadium and training facility, a staging ground for the career of the mighty Dirk Nowitzki, and an NBA champion. As far as his fellow NBA owner plutocrats are concerned, Mark Cuban has been falling behind.
