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DALLAS -- Center Nerlens Noel, who turned down a four-year, $70 million contract from the Dallas Mavericks before eventually settling for the one-year qualifying offer, did not play in Saturday's 111-104 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers?because of a coach's decision. Coach Rick Carlisle, who mentioned that matchups made it difficult for traditional centers to play against Cleveland, said that Salah Mejri had earned playing time over Noel at this point. "Look, minutes have to be earned," Carlisle said. "At this point, if it's between him and Salah, Salah has earned the minutes. There's no doghouse here. There just isn't. It's pretty simple: You compete, and if you earn minutes, you get minutes. Continue to Article

November 12, 2017 1:55:am EST

The man who ran Donald Trump’s down the stretch of the 2016 election, helping to mastermind his victory over Hillary Clinton, is now seemingly lining up at least one candidate to run against the current president in 2020. Steve Bannon has advised billionaire owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban to make a run at the White House in the next election and to do so as a Democrat, according to a report from The Daily Beast Friday. Bannon, meanwhile, was ousted from his role in the White House in August and subsequently returned to his role spearheading Breitbart News, while also fielding anti-establishment candidates to challenge sitting Republicans. Continue to Article

November 10, 2017 6:20:pm EST

Mark Cuban shared his views on the sports and entertainment industries at the DealBook Conference in New York Thursday. Dallas Mavericks owner chairman Mark Cuban thinks he could have beaten both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a presidential election. Continue to Article

November 10, 2017 5:35:pm EST

Mark Cuban continued to speak to the possibility of his running for president on Thursday, this time noting his wife's reaction to such a future political endeavor. As recently as last month, the Dallas Mavericks owner continued to state that he was still weighing a presidential bid. The billionaire businessman and star of ABC's "Shark Tank" was leading President Trump in a 2020 presidential poll released in August by Public Policy Polling. Continue to Article

November 09, 2017 3:08:pm EST

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban believes sports rights fees for the NBA are going to "skyrocket" because ongoing media consolidation has been "irrelevant" for traffic thus far. "One school of thought says, well, sports rights fees must be going down because it's tougher in that market," Cuban explained to CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NYTimes Dealbook conference. "But what they don't recognize is that these large entertainment media platforms, the online — the Facebooks, the Googles, etc, ... none of them have been able to succeed and be truly effective in re-creating audiences" for live content."I think the sports rights fees for our league, in particular, are going to skyrocket."Cuban, who owns the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, also said he would support any of his players who chose to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Continue to Article

November 09, 2017 1:16:pm EST