Cuban agrees with Stern? What Now?

I don’t want to beat a dead horse. Instead I will chop one up and feed it to Michael Vick’s emaciated pit bulls.

David Stern’s ruling was wrong.

How do I know it’s wrong? The same reason that Stern turned on his computer around 6:30 Wednesday night and figured out he had made a mistake.

Mark Cuban agrees with the decision.

In his blogmaverick.com post for Wednesday Cuban states, “First, let me go on the record as saying that in the event that a vote comes up to change the rules about suspensions for players leaving the bench, I will vote against changing it.”

This comment did not surprise me. Cuban doesn’t want to change or challenge any rule that has nothing to do with his team. The part that surprised me was what he wrote next:

“That makes the NBA stronger because it removes uncertainty. Can it result in a game(s) being impacted, yes. However, that impact results from an action a player knew violated the rules and was a mistake. There is no uncertainty about it. All they had to do was not leave the bench.”

What? Come again?

This coming from the man that spent this last basketball season crying about how the leagues strict foul calls in the Finals cost his team the championship. This is the same style of officiating that Cuban used to push for in order to help his team exploit their offensive superiority.

But when a rule flies back in his face he always gets upset.

So as a basketball fan I can only pray to Red Auerbach that next year a fight breaks out in a Mavs game, and Dirk Nowitzki jumps off the bench to throw down some fighting moves he learned while watching Hasselhoff in Knight Rider. Then we will surely get an outraged Mark Cuban screaming and letting the foam and spit ooze out of his rage filled mouth.

Cuban should take his own advice, “Because it’s incredibly simple to educate players about the rule. It’s a rule they fully understand and they understand the consequences of violating the rule.”

Maybe he should sit down with his players next time they go to the Finals and explain to them that fouling one of the best players in the NBA repeatedly could cost them a playoff series. That is if they ever get to the Finals again. If they don’t Cuban will just blame it on Dwayne Wade, or the commissioner, or the planets being out of alignment, or…