Report: Cuban called Martin a 'thug'Comment

The NBA is reviewing a postgame confrontation between Mark Cuban and the mother of Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin during which the Dallas Mavericks owner referred to Martin as a "thug" or a "punk," according to a report in The Denver Post.




Cuban told the Denver newspaper by e-mail that as he walked off the court after the Mavericks' Saturday night loss in Dallas, he saw Martin's mother, Lydia Moore, as a fan was yelling that the Nuggets were "thugs."

"That includes your son," Cuban said to Moore, according to his e-mail to The Post.

Martin's agent, Brian Dyke, had a different take on the incident, The Post reported. According to Dyke, an unprovoked Cuban told Moore, "Your son is a punk."

Either way, NBA spokesman Tim Frank told the paper the "situation on the floor postgame is being reviewed."

According to The Associated Press, Frank said Sunday the league was still reviewing the wider postgame scene on the court, when Dallas' Josh Howard and Cuban were among those visibly upset after Carmelo Anthony hit a game-winning 3-pointer with one second to play.

The shot, which came after Antoine Wright's obvious attempt to draw a foul on Anthony, took the Nuggets from two points down to one point ahead, giving them a 106-105 victory and a commanding 3-0 lead in the second-round series.

Cuban came onto the floor near the front of the Mavericks' bench after Anthony hit the shot, before Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki took the inbounds pass and missed a long shot at the buzzer.

As he left the court after the game, Cuban slightly shoved a TV cameraman, pushing his forearm to move him aside as the owner walked by.

Martin remained on the court more than a minute after the game and could be seen making comments to Mavs players as most of his teammates had made their way to the locker room.

Martin, a Dallas native known for his physical play, was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Monday, a day after knocking Nowitzki to the court in Denver's series-opening win.

After that game, Nowitzki downplayed the contact as "just a hard playoff foul." The Mavericks All-Star has no beef with Martin, either.

"We both played hard, had some great battles and left it at that," Nowitzki said Tuesday. "We were laughing at one move that I made on the block where I had like 10 or 11 fakes and he was just standing there. He asked me what the hell I was doing?"

On the play in question, Nowitzki was off-balance when Martin put a shoulder to him, causing him to stumble and then slide across the lane. Nowitzki disputed that he made the foul look worse that it was.

"I don't think I really acted on that play," he said. "It was pretty obvious."

Nowitzki doesn't think Martin will change his style because of the fine.

"K-Mart is K-Mart. He's an aggressive player, an aggressive defender," Nowitzki said. "He goes to the basket hard. I don't think that's going to be in the back of his mind."

Mark Cuban needs to shut the fuck up and sit the hell down.
[Edited 5/11/09 9:25am]

SCNDLS said:

Lol.....he doesn't know what he is getting himself into.

SCNDLS said:

Instead of yelling at a woman, why not man-up, go to Kenyon Martin's face and talk that smack?

uPtoWnNY said:

Exactly. I'm so tired of his grandstanding and constantly interjecting himself into the spotlight. I hope David Stern fines HIS punk ass for this and for shoving the cameraman. He actually got into an email exchange with a local reporter claiming he DIDN'T shove the reporter.

uPtoWnNY said:

Not going to happen...Cuban knows he would get knocked out.

SCNDLS said:

Cuban is just a spoiled brat and big baby who whines all the time. He is lucky he owns a team.

Sowhat said:

All that is true, but I'll take Cuban over the idiot we have in New York any day. There is no worst owner in pro sports than Jim Dolan. Look at his hires.

uPtoWnNY said:

Cuban's done a lot for the league but his head is permanently on SWOLE. I know it's because he was a loser in high school and ended up being rich and famous so now he's overcompesating. The shit's still annoying and he's ridiculously pompous even in private with them Cheetos-yella teef of his.

uPtoWnNY said:

I'll have 2 agree. Maybe the Redskins owner?

Graycap23 said:

Snyder's a fool, but the 'Skins made the playoffs in '05 & '07. Knicks have had eight straight losing seasons, and were the laughingstock of pro sports under Isiah. And Dolan approved a $29mil contract for Jerome James. Doesn't get any dumber than that.

uPtoWnNY said:

I see your point. Is Crawford still on that team?

Graycap23 said:

Walsh dumped Crawford(Warriors) & Randolph(Clippers) months ago. Getting rid of those ridiculous contracts got us under the cap, thankfully. But there's more of Zeke's damage to be undone.

As for Cuban, you can bet Stern will have something to say about this shit.
[Edited 5/11/09 13:06pm]

Nuggets' Martin: I'll talk with Cuban

A day after Mother's Day, Kenyon Martin lobbed a verbal salvo to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in defense of his own.

Martin, whose mother was verbally confronted by Cuban after Saturday night's game, said he was going to "take care of it" as early as Monday night, as the Nuggets looked to sweep the Mavericks in their second-round playoff series.



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"I don't feel I need to call his name in the media and all that, but it's a little personal," Martin said after the Nuggets' shootaround in Dallas, according to a report on The Denver Post's Web site. "And I'm going to take care of it."

The incident, during which Cuban referred to Martin as a "thug" or a "punk," according to an earlier report in The Post, was part of a raucous postgame scene the NBA said it was reviewing.

Cuban told the Denver newspaper by e-mail that as he walked off the court after the Mavericks' Saturday night loss in Dallas, he saw Martin's mother, Lydia Moore, as a fan was yelling that the Nuggets were "thugs."

"That includes your son," Cuban said to Moore, according to his e-mail to The Post.

Martin's agent, Brian Dyke, had a different take on the incident, The Post reported. According to Dyke, an unprovoked Cuban told Moore, "Your son is a punk."

Neither scenario amused Martin.

"Don't say nothing to my kids or my family," Martin said, according to The Post. "If you got something to say, say it to me. But I'm going to take care of it. I'm not going to do the whole media thing, back and forth. That's his thing. I'm more of a face-to-face type of dude."

"So whenever the opportunity presents itself, then I will address it. But I got a game to go win. At some point I will, but I got a game to go win, first and foremost. So that's my focus and concentration right now."

Asked if he thought the confrontation was Cuban's way of trying to get under the Nuggets' skin, Martin said yes.

"That's what he's trying to do, but it ain't going to work," Martin said, according to the newspaper. "I'm focused on what we need to do as a team. That's what I'm here to do. But if other things present themselves along the way then you got to address them. And this is one of those situations. I don't back away from nobody except the law."

Martin said he had not experienced anything like this during his nine-year career in the NBA.

"Nobody in his position, not at all," Martin said. "But of course, a college game where people in the stands are saying stuff to your family, that's fine and dandy, during the course of the game. But when the game is over, you don't say nothing to nobody's parents; especially mine. My mom or my kids, you don't have no words for them. I'll take care of it."

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has apologized to the mother of Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin.
He apologized Tuesday for a crack he made after a Mavs loss in Dallas on Saturday in their best-of-seven NBA playoff series. According to Cuban, a fan called the Nuggets "thugs." Cuban looked at Martin's mother, Lydia Moore of Dallas, and said, "That includes your son." Martin's agent told the Denver Post Cuban said, "Your son is a punk."


GAME ON! BLOG: More on Cuban's apology

In a Tuesday post on Cuban's blog titled "An Apology to Kenyan Martin's Mom," Cuban wrote: "It doesn't matter why I said it. I shouldnt have said anything. Now, the reality is that this has gotten out of hand."

The Mavs trail 3-1 in the best-of-seven series after Monday's 119-117 Dallas win.

Graycap23 said:

Ummmm, the only thing missing from his apology is an actual apology. Yesterday all he said was that she could sit next to him at any time. WTF is that? I hope Kmart pops him in his lip and he's gutta enough to do it.

Cuban Apologizes After K-Mart Calls Him MF'er

In an open letter on his blog, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban apologized Tuesday for telling the mother of Denver's Kenyon Martin that her son was a thug and all but promised a Game 5 win in Denver Wednesday night.

K-Mart Calls Cuban Fa**ot M-F'er

Cuban's comment was uttered while leaving the court Saturday following a very controversial non-call that resulted in Dallas losing Game 3 and falling 0-3 in the series.

"It started as a smart ass comment that I know that no one heard ... I should have not said anything and I was wrong," Cuban wrote in his blog.

Cuban's apology came Tuesday after Martin, a Dallas native, directed a tapestry of obsenity in Cuban's direction at the conclusion of Dallas' Game 4 win Monday night at the American Airlines Center.

While walking off the court, Martin looked in Cuban's direction and said, "You better walk that way. You better walk that way you fa**ot mother fu**er. You gotta come to Denver bi**h."

Talking with fans, Cuban can be seen laughing off the verbal assault.

Back in his blog, Cuban continued to mend burned bridges, even offering to let Martin's family stay in his suite when the series returns to Dallas for Game 6.

The series will only return to Dallas at this point if the Mavs win Game 5 ... so even in his apology, Cuban was telling Martin and family that the Mavs finally had Denver's number and that the series was far from over.

Cuban then continued to smooth over his infraction while assuring the Martins, and any other readers, that his family has also played the victim in opposing arenas -- and that he understood their pain -- all while assuring them it would be different in Game 6.

"So if we can put this behind us, I will make sure when the series comes back to Dallas, your family and friends, and that of your teammates are very comfortable at our Arena," Cuban wrote.

While optimism can take you far in sports, it's not clear if the Big Mo has completely shifted into Dallas' corner. Dallas is now 1-7 against the Nuggets and are heading into hostile territory against a team that would like to end this series once and for all.

We won't have long to wait to see what will happen. Tip off for Game 5 is Wednesday night at 8 p.m. in Denver.

Cuban, who has a previous engagement, will not be in attendance for Game 5. (Yeah, I bet. )

Here's the video of Kmart going off
http://www.nbcdfw.com/spo...enver.html

Did ya'll see on TV when LaLa got into it with a Dallas fan? Lawd, last night was a hot mess.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/spo...Worth.html

SCNDLS said:

Yeah, and I hope Kmart suffers a career ending injury while doing it as well. That would be great!

jockeyb4u said:

Sowhat said:

How is Cuban a spoiled brat?

Graycap23 said:

Hmm? Let's see...an "ass-kicking from a 6'8 CRAZY-ASS, MAD MUTHAFUCKA" or an "Apology"...what to do...what to do?...

jockeyb4u said:

jockeyb4u said:

Do you actually watch the Mavs games?

MuthaFunka said:

It was still a half-assed apology he gave AFTER Kmart clowned him after last night's game.

SCNDLS said:

It appeared that she was getting into it with a female fan.
I couldn't hear what was said on my computer. The lady may have
said something negative about the nuggets players and la la went off.
[Edited 5/12/09 12:59pm]

SCNDLS said:

Cuban was scared shitless though.

SCNDLS said:

Well KMart isn't a choir boy by no means but he plays hard on the
court and sometimes he can go overboard with the physicality but
even with that said i still don't view him to be quite the
asshole and attention whore cuban is.