RE: Does Mark Cuban Think The NBA Is Done?

What you say in your comment is true, and it's good that you mentioned the Rooney family in Pittsburgh.

Ego alone isn't the worst part of those team owners. It's ego combined with lack of vision or intelligence. We deal with it as Knicks fans every day: we could tolerate an Emperor Palpatine because he had vision; instead, we ended up with Admiral Ozzel, and you know what happened to him.

Even though you're anti-NYY (not that there's anything wrong with that), you can see that Steinbrenner could have ended up like the Dolans had he not put the right people in place to run his team. Now he's remembered more as a Seinfeld character than as the lunatic owner of the Bronx Zoo-era teams and a twice-sanctioned owner.

It goes back to winning. Put the right people in place, get on track to winning or even a championship, and not only does it solve many problems but it also reflects well on ownership. It still surprises me that many owners fail to grasp this basic point. Although he was a train wreck the last 20 years of his life, Al Davis of the Raiders knew this to his bones and it showed between 1960 and 1990.