How did the Dallas Maverick owner, Mark Cuban, make his fortune?
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Mark Cuban.....ummm...cigars?
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Mavericks Rule!!!!!!!!
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He makes about $5 mil from basketball. plus he makes ads and contracts with other companies so he makes much more.
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Bin Laden is probably in Sacramento, California running a chain of 7 eleven's. The amount of money that fuck has can buy anything. He probably got to Cuba, took a go fast boat here, got citizenship under another name and is spying for Castro. Who knows. Just my conspiracy theory.
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He was given a condominium by an unknown person in Florida. That REALLY is the truth. He lives in Dade County Florida and works as a insurance broker.
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Wang Zhizhi from China did it.  He accomplished this before joining the Dallas Mavericks when he was on the Chinese National Team.  It is well documented.  The first and only triple-triple in the history of basketball.\n\nAlthough he is no longer in the NBA, he is truly the greatest player of all time (yes, surpassing Michael Jordan, Wilt and others).
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After almost winning the Heisman Trophy while playing college football for Washington State University, he was drafted by the San Diego Chargers.  He was given a huge signing bonus (I want to say $15 million) and due largely to his immaturity, became a millionaire jerk.  He never regained his college form in the pros and finally gave it up a few years ago.  He's now a QB coach for West Texas A&M as of 2006.  His college coach, Mike Price,  actually used his condo in Spokane, WA after Price was involved with the stripper scandal in FL.
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Mark Cuban; 'nuf said.\n\nHave seen him, have been to Dallas, have read his blog. He insults many, but mostly is just an embarrassment to Dallas, and the Mavs, and certainly to the NBA and USA. Watch as the league takes action on him. He's out of control, and sets a poor example to impressionable young people. Oh, and it seems like you're the one that hasn't gotten over the season. Most other people have.
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the florida marlins, what a story. 6 players in the major leagues make more money in one year then the whole Florida Marlins team.
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I always believed that only one miracle was needed: Clipper owner Donald Sterling decides to pay for good players. It seemed for a long time that this would never happen, but suddenly it did with big contracts for Elton Brand, Corey Maggette, and Cuttino Mobley. It's a miracle!!!
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Steinbrenner could definitely sell the Yankees for a billion dollars. The way Forbes comes up with how much a team is worth is by liquidating all of their assets. Like the stadium, name and liscensing. With the Yankees, you also have YES network, and that boosts what the team is worth because it belongs to the Yankees name. You;ve also got to remember that it's really only worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. I think the Red Sox were sold a few years back for 686 million. They weren't worth that much. But that's what the previous owner was able to get for it. On the other hand, when the Montreal Expos were getting ready to fold their franchise, they tried to sell it first. And nobody wanted them. Major League Baseball ended up taking over ownership of the Expos for a payout of . . . nothing. Clearly a professional baseball team is worth more than $0 dollars, but nobody wanted them
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He earned $3 million dollars plus percentage of the ppv profits.\nMorales earned $2.75 million + percentage.
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Yes, he does scare me.  I do not like him one bit.  He is way too involved for an owner.  He needs to sit down and shut it. I want the Mavs to win, but I wish he wasn't the owner.
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Shortly after college, in 1982, Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas and found work with a new IBM PC software dealer. He was fired for choosing to make a sales call to close a $10,000 software deal instead of opening the store on time. Cuban founded a new company, MicroSolutions, and was able to convince some of his previous customers to come along. The Microsolutions became a system integrator and reseller for companies like Novell, 3Com, IBM, Banyan, Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems and an early adopter of technologies such as Carbon Copy, Lotus Notes, and CompuServe. One of the company's biggest clients was Perot Systems. In July of 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe, Inc, then a subsidiary of H&R Block, for $6 million.\n\nCuban and fellow Indiana alum Todd Wagner still eagerly followed their college basketball team, and conceived the idea of broadcasting live games and events through the Internet. They began Audionet in 1995 with a single Packard Bell server and ISDN line, which became Broadcast.com in 1998. They achieved success by broadcasting sporting and corporate events much less expensively than with existing leased lines. By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330 employees and annual revenues close to $100 million. With the stock market now in the midst of the Dot-com boom, Cuban was able to sell the company to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in stock.
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If anything Cuban makes people watch the Mavs more, I love that guy, actually sticks up for his team against crappy officiating. He has been fined millions by the NBA for his actions! I'd love to play on a team where the owner has that much heart to stick up for his team. The Mavs are one of the best teams in the West, they'll go far this year again no doubt. What's great is Josh Howard is back and he had a pretty good game tonight.
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I'm guessing Bill Laimbeer... I don't know exactly what his father did for a living, but I remember hearing sometime during his career that his father was very wealthy, and actually did make more than his NBA son.
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I heard that too!  Still, I guess you didn't hear that Jerry Jones offered Terry 10 million to kill T.O. (in the bedroom with a candlestick), so he could collect on an insurance policy.  I heard Terry took this offer instead.  Man, I guess that's why the Heat won.