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“If you ever go to HoopsHype, and go to the rumors page on a PC, notice: you’re seeing Mavs there every time. Every time. That’s where every player and every free agent in the NBA goes to keep up with the rumors. So you see Mavs in the community, you see little features on Mavs players, and players see that all the time. So that’s kind of the way we back door promote ourselves. It’s always the Mavs.” Dallas Morning News

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Mark Cuban on if he wants to trade his draft pick: “That is the case. The numbers are the numbers. If I’m going to talk about cap and CBA I can’t BS my way around that. … There’s risk involved. If somebody falls that we think is going to be a superstar and nobody else does, then we’ll make the pick. I don’t think that’s likely.” Dallas Morning News

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Mark Cuban: “We’ll look at taking future draft picks. We’ll look at moving down and getting multiple draft picks. We’ll look at trading for players that we think are good. There are a lot of opportunities.” Dallas Morning News

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Mark Cuban: “If go to talk to schools, it’s not about the Mavs. I go in there expecting to talk Mavs. It's Shark Tank, Shark Tank, Shark Tank, Shark Tank. It’s crazy.” Dallas Morning News

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Mark Cuban on watching basketball with Bill Clinton: “It was crazy because he screams at the TV. He’s a huge basketball fan. He’s like, ‘Call that!’ He’s worse than me. He said he’s going to come to a Mavs game and sit next to me next to the bench and we’ll see who’s louder.” Dallas Morning News

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“In essence, you get to come in and, it’s you and we have room for two more max free agents (next year),” Mavs owner Mark Cuban said during a Monday appearance on KTCK-AM. “That’s why when I talked about a two-year plan, that’s the concept there. So part of our sales pitch is, look, we’re not going to try to fool you and say that you and Dirk (Nowitzki) and Shawn Marion and Vince (Carter) and fill are basically a championship team. Maybe we get on a run, maybe we’re pretty good. But the reality is you’re going to work with us and Dirk to get out there and pick your team.” ESPN.com

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There’s no doubt that Dirk will do what he can to make sure that the Mavs are active shoppers in next summer’s market, when LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Danny Granger and many others could be available along with restricted studs such as Kyrie Irving, Paul George and DeMarcus Cousins. Cuban’s comments are an indication that Nowitzki would be willing to play for the minimum, or close to it, if the Mavs can add multiple stars. ESPN.com

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So it’s on the Mavs to come up with Plan C, D, E and so on. And it’s smart of Cuban to try to create a little PR wiggle room for how this summer is judged. “If we get one of our big names, that would be successful and get us on a two-year plan,” Cuban said. “(If) we don’t get one of the two big names and we sign two or three guys that make us good this year and allow us to compete for the fifth or sixth playoff spot or better and still keeps our cap room for next year to sign … let’s just say we keep it under $18 million, $19 million and we get a lot better with those three players and we still have cap room for two max-out guys, then we’ll also be successful.” ESPN.com

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Dirk Nowitzki has a vested interest in Mark Cuban’s contributions to SMU to fund a research project on flopping. After all, Dirk’s a flopper. Or at least a seller of fouls. He freely admits as much. “We’re never going to get rid of it,” he said recently. “But you got to limit it. It’s part of sports. It’s part of winning. Some people are smart and do a little extra thing to kind of sell the call. To me, that’s part of sports. You don’t want the obvious ones, the really, really bad ones. I think we’d love to get rid of those. But if somebody really does get shoved or hit a little bit, just to sell it a little for the referees so it does get the call, I don’t have a problem with that. I think that’s part of the game.” Dallas Morning News

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"We're going to be active in free agency," said Carlisle, who did not specify any particular players the Mavericks were targeting. "We're an aggressive franchise by nature; our owner (Mark Cuban) is. And that's good. We're going to put together a good team." CSNNE.com

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Steve Popper: Interesting disclosure from Jason Kidd - @Mark Cuban offered him a chance to come to Dallas and learn business side, but he opted for coaching. Twitter @StevePopper

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The nasty feud between Mark Cuban and Jason Kidd is officially OVER ... at least for now ... 'cause Mark tells TMZ the two have made up -- and have even started emailing each other again. TMZ.com

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When we asked Mark how he felt about Jason landing the Brooklyn Nets head coaching job this week, M.C. told us: "I'm excited for him. He has great knowledge on the game so I'm sure he will do well. And yes we have started emailing again so all is well with the world.” TMZ.com

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Time for political correspondents to experience keeping up with Mark Cuban. Many of them saw the owner of the Mavericks leaving the White House this morning and shared their conversations with the media and basketball mogul. Mark Cuban said Obama wanted the inside scoop on trades, coaching moves, all things NBA."I keep my political opinions to myself," Cuban said Dallas Morning News

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Tim Bontemps: Kidd says Mark Cuban reached out about a potential job on the business/front office side with the Mavericks before the Nets came up. Twitter @TimBontemps

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Dave McMenamin: Kobe says on @NBATV he's going to send Mark Cuban his Social Media Award for his #AmnestyTHAT tweet that won him the 140 (character) award Twitter @mcten

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Biomechanics experts at Southern Methodist University have teamed with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to carry out a scientific study of the unsavory practice of player flopping in basketball and other sports. Southern Metodist University

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The Cuban-owned company Radical Hoops Ltd. awarded a grant of more than $100,000 to fund the 18-month research study at SMU, Dallas. “The issues of collisional forces, balance and control in these types of athletic settings are largely uninvestigated,” said SMU biomechanics expert Peter G. Weyand, who leads the research team. “There has been a lot of research into balance and falls in the elderly, but relatively little on active adults and athletes.” Southern Metodist University

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Still, after getting a proper sendoff from Mavericks owner Mark Cuban following his retirement announcement Monday, Kidd says his greatest accolade would be seeing his jersey -- be it the No. 5 he sported when he first came into the league or the No. 2 he later wore while bringing a championship to Dallas -- hanging from the American Airlines Center rafters. “Oh, whatever number he (Cuban) would like to put up, I’ll be there,” Kidd joked. “You know, I wish I would have got (No.) 5 when I came back the second time around, but I wouldn’t mind (either) just as long as my number went up. That would be just the best honor and the highlight of my career.” NBA.com

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It appears the frigid Mark Cuban-Jason Kidd relationship has warmed somewhat in the aftermath of Kidd’s Monday announcement that he is retiring after 19 NBA seasons. During a call-in appearance on 105.3 The Fan’s Gavin & Chris “GBag Nation” show Tuesday evening, Kidd said Cuban sent him an email, congratulating him on his career and retirement. “Yeah, Cube reached out and sent me a nice note,” Kidd said. “Cube is one of if not the best owner in sports and we were lucky to be with him when we won that championship.” Dallas Morning News

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