What if the ultimate price for Mark Cuban’s willingness to open his mouth on all matters but determination to close his eyes on awful things around his own office is the loss of the precious first-round pick the Mavericks have fought so long and hard to obtain through structured tanking this season?
For the players and for Rick Carlisle, who have nothing to do with the “Animal House culture" of sexual harassment that Sports Illustrated wrote about this week, it would seem grossly unfair. As a price to pay for a franchise that apparently is the absolute opposite when it comes to the open and progressive workplace Cuban championed, it could be not only fair but just the beginning.