{"id":112121,"date":"2025-08-26T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112121\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:39:11","slug":"cuban-i-let-people-down-with-luka-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112121\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban: ‘I let people down’ with Luka trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban is still reeling from Luka Doncic’s shocking trade to the Los Angeles Lakers in February.<\/p>\n

“We all were hurt when Luka got traded. Me as much as anyone because I felt like I let people down by not being there. But what’s done is done,” Cuban told the “DLLS Mavs Podcast.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Cuban relinquished control of basketball operations after selling his majority stake in the Mavericks to Miriam Adelson and Patrick Dumont in December 2023.<\/p>\n

Dallas president of basketball operations and general manager Nico Harrison now reports to Dumont on all roster personnel matters, even though Cuban still has a 27% share in the franchise.<\/p>\n

Cuban has already been vocal about the lacking return for Doncic, which consisted of Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 2029 first-round pick. However, he’s optimistic that Cooper Flagg – this year’s No. 1 overall pick – will help re-engage the club’s fan base.<\/p>\n

“We got Cooper. The basketball gods were looking down on us, and Coop’s the real deal. He’s not even 19 years old,” Cuban said. “He could literally – depending on science – play for the Mavs for 25 years. I’m guessing if we do well and win, those sentiments will change.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban is still reeling from Luka Doncic’s shocking trade to the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-112121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}