Mark Cuban Goes After Kenyon Martin’s Mother
I can understand being frustrated about a loss, especially the way the Mavericks got hosed by the refs, but this is completely over-the-line:
The NBA is reviewing a postgame confrontation between Mark Cuban and the mother of Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin during which the Dallas Mavericks owner referred to Martin as a “thug” or a “punk,” according to a report in The Denver Post.
Cuban told the Denver newspaper by e-mail that as he walked off the court after the Mavericks’ Saturday night loss in Dallas, he saw Martin’s mother, Lydia Moore, as a fan was yelling that the Nuggets were “thugs.”
“That includes your son,” Cuban said to Moore, according to his e-mail to The Post.
Martin’s agent, Brian Dyke, had a different take on the incident, The Post reported. According to Dyke, an unprovoked Cuban told Moore, “Your son is a punk.”
Either way NBA spokesman Tim Frank told the paper the “situation on the floor postgame is being reviewed.”
Apparently Cuban thinks being a billionaire and a celebrity gives him license to act in a completely boorish manner. Well Mark, it doesn’t. That’s a man’s mother you’re going after there. I wouldn’t blame Kenyon Martin if he put his fist right through your smug jack-ass face after that. The fact is, Mark, your act grew tired a long time ago. That whole “owner-as-#1-fan” routine was cool for awhile, but unfortunately you’ve taken the fan part of it too far. You’re behaving as reprehensibly as any other drunken piece of garbage yelling profanities in front of children and slobbering on everyone and taking a leak wherever the heck he pleases. At this rate you’ll have to move to Philly and buy the Eagles.
