Mark Cuban Trading Away Players Who Smoke Weed Is What Makes Him The Best Owner in the NBA

Since purchasing a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks back in 2000, Mark Cuban has been the most famous team owner (outside of Michael Jordan) and he’s earned that level of fame with his genius team building decisions like today, when Cuban revealed he will trade players away if they smoke too much weed.

“I’ve traded guys because they smoke too much” -Mark Cuban@patbevpod @patbev21 @rone pic.twitter.com/p5lIrExDV0

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If you get some young dudes on there who are just figuring out what the team or NBA culture is, and you’ve got one dude that you walk down the hall in the hotel and you know he’s on that floor and there’s no doubt about it, and then all of a sudden these other kids start picking up on it.

You see them coming out of their room. You see them a little bit red-eyed coming to practice all of a sudden. You don’t want them going down that road.

Everybody smokes, right? It’s not about that, but there’s smoking, there’s how powerful the s*** you’re doing is, and then there’s how much you do.

If you get past that level and there’s a chance you might drag somebody with you, you got to look at the bigger picture.”

Round of applause to Mark Cuban.

THIS is how you win 1 championship in 23 years. You can’t let the inmates run the asylum.

Everyone knows that’s how a team’s culture works.

One guy is seen smoking weed and then all of a sudden the entire team shows up to practice high and we all know what happens after that.

Look at all the success the Mavericks have had.

Last season, they nearly made the playoffs. Sure, they finished in 11th place in the West but imagine how worse they would’ve been if there was anyone smoking weed in their off time.

Some could make the argument that the Mavs fell out of the playoffs when they acquired Kyrie Irving at the trade deadline but you make that deal every chance you get. You always trade for a holocaust denier when they become available.

It’s about building a culture ya know.

And sure, the previous tandem of Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis didn’t work but they just had to take the chance and trade away a bajillion draft picks to the Knicks for a guy who was quite literally in the midst of a rape investigation.

It’s called culture building. Mark Cuban gets it.

If you can’t fall into Mark Cuban’s culture then you can find work elsewhere. Like former head coach and general manager, Don Nelson, who was fired a year ago for reporting a sexual assault committed against his nephew who was applying for a job with the team when Cuban’s chief of staff, Jason Lutin, invited Nelson’s nephew to his hotel room and got handsy with him.

I trust Cuban.

His team did win the 2011 championship thanks in large part to Jason Kidd helping establish that winning culture. Kidd wouldn’t dare smoke weed, especially considering his previous arrest for beating the shit out of his wife. Makes all the sense to hire Kidd as the team’s head coach.

For culture purposes.

Here’s what you can do if you work for Mark Cuban: