On Friday, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban released more background into the demise of the DeAndre Jordan deal on his messaging app Cyber Dust.
Below are the messages sent by Cuban, verbatim.
Dear Mavs fans,
After all the nonsense coming from an ESPN employee on twitter, I thought I would provide the events of the day on tuesday.
Through all of Monday we were texting back and forth discussing players available , the amount of cap room we had left. Who our staff like. Who he liked. How excited he was.
Then on Tuesday the communications basically stopped and we started hearing rumblings from multiple people that something was up
So I flew down to Houston and got a room at the galleria , which is just a few minutes from his house. I had my driver take me to his house. It's inside a small gated community but the gate was wide open So we drove in and I literally walked up to his door .
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There was no one home . So I texted him saying that I was there . I know something is up. Let's talk . He texted me that he was on a date.
I told him to have fun. I wasn't in a rush, that I was happy to come by there and say hi or if he wanted to make the date fun, take them to Dallas for a night out
He didn't respond .
After about 10 minutes I went back to the hotel. I wasn't going to sit in front of his house. I didn't think that was right.
When I got back to the hotel I texted him that I wasn't in front of his house. Have fun on his date and we will talk .
He hit me back immediately saying thanks.
He know I was in town. He knew I was close by. I knew something was up. I was getting the same reports everyone else was.
I also knew his agents were coming to town . It made sense that he would talk to them and worst case, even if he was having second thoughts the agent would be able to give me updates
Like any big career move it's natural to have second thoughts. So while I was concerned, I still wasn't worried. So I went to bed
More to come
And for those who care. I like this medium because it's like having a face to face conversation. I can say what I want. No trolls. I can reach any size audience . And respond to people easily.
I will also reblast this to +blogmaverick
+letsgomavs and Dust On
Meanwhile, Cuban has received an apology from ESPN's Chris Broussard who tweeted the Mavs owner was driving around Houston frantically reaching out to Jordan's family asking for his address. Cuban refuted the report and said he'd donate $100,000 to any charity Broussard named if he provided proof of his tweet.
Broussard issued the following statement, an apology, Friday.
"Regarding my Wednesday report: I should have attempted to contact Mark Cuban before reporting what my sources were telling me. I always try to carry myself with honesty and integrity both personally and professionally. I recognize that I tweeted hastily, I’m sorry for it, and I will learn from my mistake."
