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gsoda3

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  1. Hah, no I completely messed up. What I meant was they're not an executive branch agency. They don't fall under that EO. Their independence was intentionally created to shelter them from these types of circumstances.
  2. Do you not know how p&l is calculated? It's not from value. The first time I heard Cuban say he was operating the mavericks at a loss was in 2007, the year after we should have beat Miami. The last time I heard him say it was two weeks ago. He said it multiple times in between. Of course he wasn't talking about the value of the team. P&L is an income statement figure. Revenue minus expenses. Nowhere does market value of the team figure in. Same with operating cash flows. It's money in, money out. For 20+ years he was paying out of his pocket to keep the Mavs running because he was running the team at a loss, despite having the longest sellout streak in the NBA. He could have raised ticket prices to cover the deficit. He didn't.
  3. And that is....
  4. But they're not. The SEC isn't a government agency.
  5. He's said many times over the years he's lost hundreds of millions of dollars on the Mavs. But you do you former season ticket holder.
  6. Donnie and Friends are undoubtedly getting rich on this. No question about it. My issue is you said it's happening at hedge funds because they're not registered with the SEC and aren't subject to oversight. That's just not true. That EO you posted specifically said "employees of the executive branch". Employees at hedge funds, including the partners, are not part of that EO and aren't exempt from SEC or FINRA requirements.
  7. He said he'd rather divorce his wife than trade Luka. He said he never would have traded Luka as long as he was owner of the team. Has he said the exact words "I wouldn't have sold the team if I knew they would have traded Luka"? I don't think so...? But he addressed that question when he said he never would have traded Luka and he had the contract state he would retain control of basketball operations but the NBA made him take it out.
  8. Agreed. Cuban is a billionaire. Money will always come before the Mavs. He looks bad either way like you've mentioned. Either he didn't do his research on this group and he's dumb or he knew and just didn't give a shit because.... Money. I'll go with the latter. Except when it doesn't, and it never had when it came to the Mavericks until he sold the team. How much money has he *willingly* lost on the team all these years for the sake of keeping ticket prices low? How many times did he say losing games hurts worse than losing money?
  9. I think you assigning blame to Cuban by asserting he should have been able to see the new owners overriding his judgement on basketball operations, ceding final word to a GM that Cuban himself hired, and having that GM do something that almost no one else in the City of Dallas would have done is ridiculous. You yourself said you don't follow the NBA. Yet you're opining on this like you're familiar with Cuban's previous actions. He wouldn't have done anything that would have hurt the team like this. He's sacrificed tens of if not hundreds of millions of dollars for the betterment of this team.
  10. Interesting insight on both points. I've never heard west campus called wampus and I lived there for two years. Do people call it wampus?
  11. Which employees of the executive branch are moonlighting at Hedge Funds?
  12. I don't think you understand how big of a fan Cuban actually was. He was as passionate about this team as any of us in here. He wouldn't have done this if he thought it was even a remote possibility this could have happened.
  13. I was in middle school. Onn the reddit thread an EMT and an ER nurse said there've been bad batches of K and Spice going around. Basically a mixture of mouse trap glue and fentanyl. Who'd they get it from? There's been someone advertising a company called wampuszaza or wampusgreens in the bathroom stalls - apparently a semi-legal source for drugs. Maybe it's there. But police did say the PCL body wasn't affiliated with the university.
  14. Had you even heard of the Adelsons before this deal? The only thing I knew them for was the Sands and even then it was only Sheldon Adelson I had any knowledge of. Why are they the worst? Because Miriam donated to Trump? Sounds like you're being irrational in your anger and assigning blame to Cuban in an unreasonable expectation he should have just known.
  15. Hedge funds are regulated by both the SEC* and FINRA. *As long as they have assets over $150 million. The ones that would profiteer off inside trading with members of Congress most certainly hit that amount. $150 AUM is nothing.
  16. Yahoo passing on acquiring Google for $1 MILLION ranks up there. But this still might be the worst. I'm willing to give Cuban the benefit of the doubt here. He thought he was going to retain control of basketball operations. How could he have predicted 1.) Dumont was going to listen solely to Nico and that 2.) Nico would have done something this blindingly incompetent?
  17. He chose the worse of the two options.
  18. For better or worse they function now as the public square. Because of that the owners not only have a responsibility to their traditional stakeholders but also to the public. yes
  19. Hoggies put on a pretty good show of aggressive hissing and feinting before eventually rolling over and playing dead, complete with lolling tongue. It would be highly comical to see one on someone's shoulder in an HEB. But no, there shouldn't ever be a snake on someone's shoulder in an HEB.
  20. good. i hate these more than you hate zeke.
  21. Tied for fastest on the team. I would have bet a lot of money against that
  22. Fellas, this isn't the cutting edge content imma needs to draw in new users.
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