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Revision as of 22:35, October 4, 2021
Mark Cuban is the current owner of HDNet and well known as the NBA Dallas Mavericks owner. Mark became a billionaire by selling his dotcom company Broadcast.com to Yahoo. Worth approximately 2.8 billion dollars, he made number 133 on Forbes' "World's Richest People" in 2007. Mark, a native of suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is considered controversial on a number of issues both on and off the basketball court.
Cuban has said he has no problem doing business with the genocidal Communist Chinese regime.[1]
NBA oligarch
He is very passionate having paid well over $1 million in fines for lashing out at officials and referees.[2] He also announced in February 2021 that the team would no longer play The Star Spangled Banner before games[3], though the NBA would later state that it would be played before ALL NBA games, forcing the team to reverse its original decision.
Politics
"Independent, leaning to libertarian. I vote for the candidate who I think will do the least." [4] Cuban trashed Biden's socialist spending and tax plan.
SEC insider trading scandal
Mark Cuban has been named in an insider trading scandal. Accused of saving $750,000. by dumping his stake in an Internet company just after he heard confidentially that the company was about to issue low-priced shares.[5]
Redacted movie
Cuban had financed the anti-American movie Redacted, which flopped at the box office. It was a story of an alleged rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers.
Mark Cuban Foundation
Through the Mark Cuban Foundation, he matched 1 million dollars of his personal money with donations. All funds to be for families of U.S. military persons killed or injured during Iraq Afghanistan wars.[2]
References
- ↑ https://www.outkick.com/mark-cuban-megyn-kelly/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mark Cuban Biography Investing Value
- ↑ https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/538152-dallas-mavericks-wont-play-national-anthem-at-home-games-cuban
- ↑ Austin American-Statesman (May 19, 2006)
- ↑ SEC Calls a Foul on NBA's Cuban, Alleges Insider Trades in Web Firm Wall Street Journal, NOVEMBER 18, 2008