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Yes, Toky draft here though. All right, all right, well,
I guess sort of as we discussed just moments ago. I'm scrolling through the
phone and then my eyes get real wide as I see essentially the headline mark
Cuban's selling majority interest in the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Addelson, Miriam Miriam.
You don't see a lot of Miriams anymore or ever. That was my first
thing. That was the first thing I didn't say that to me was you
know what, I'll say, pretty name, Miriam Miriam classy, but you're
right, not not popular. You think this is a classy lady. We
should probably get on her good side now, she okay, I thought of
that too. I mean we're gonna bounce around a million angles on this,
but yes, I mean, you know, my other works very closely with
the Mavericks. I sent him the news when I saw it, and he
was like, oh my god. He didn't know. It's called a lot.
Everyone off guard, everyone off guard. And keep in mind Monday,
Mark Cuban announced that he was leaving Shark Tank in twenty twenty five because he
wants to spend time with his teens. Is you wants to have a couple
of years with his teens while they're still in the house, which I think
that's great, a couple of summers. No one does that, right,
That's what everyone says when they need the force field around why they're really leaving
to do anything? I think, doesn't that open up the other thing?
You don't do that already? It's too late to even jump into that,
isn't it. Yes, we're talking about the presidency. Okay, Well,
I mean I have it at the bottom of my page. The conspiracy is
tied to this thing, which yeah, I mean that is one. Yeah,
it crossed my mind. And if you're clearing the decks for that,
and then I'm like, okay, that makes a little bit of sense.
I mean, he's been sheepish about that forever. We've had him on the
Normathon back in the day every year, and every year Norm would say,
you run for president, you know, and he'll and he always he always
mentions his kids. And then he does say when my kids are a little
older, how older as kids? So they mid teens, they might not
having Adam saying their day all day long. I'm not going to trigger Kevin.
Dude, I knew I knew a kid or one of our buddies sons
who's now in college now, who went to school with one of Mark's kids,
so he might have one that's college aged. As crazy as that sounds,
like three kids, okay, I guess just figuring out their age would
give you a little info on if when they're I just want to spend more
time with my kids when they're annoying teens and the last thing they want to
do is talk to their dad. I mean, if they're like five or
two, I don't know. I don't have kids, but according to Wikipedia,
it would be a twenty, a seventeen, and a fourteen year old.
Okay, that's not that doesn't work. Then one kid's already gone.
One kid is gone before you leave shark tank, and then you have the
one leftover kid that you want to spend. No, well that's the boy.
No, yeah, yeah, that's the boy. So maybe you know,
Okay, no, that's not it, that's not this. So I
yeah, it cross my mind. All right, run for president and in
the you know what we currently have. I think, assuming he would run
as a Democrat, he you know, there is room in this world right
now for a young, younger, you know, candidate to swoop in.
I think you would run as a Republican, you really do, because the
Democrat is already there. He is already the president. He is so openly
liberal on a lot of a lot of core policies that I don't think he
could legitimately run as a republic I don't know. I don't know. He
that you can't win as an independent too. He knows that he would go.
He would have to take down maybe he has to take down Trump,
who's yeah, and god, he's I mean it might take a celebrity to
do that, is you now? I mean, look, celebrity political candidates
work. They've worked for a long time. Is the new owner of the
Dallas Mavericks. Would they appreciate him running against Trump? Right right? Considering
they were Trump's biggest financial donor in the twenty sixteen election in the twenty twenty
re election campaign. Yeah, I guess before we kick around everything, let's
cover just the x's and o's. So yes, she and her husband were
the largest donors of Donald Trump throughout his presidency, like number one, the
largest donation of his twenty sixteen campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund
and the Mueller investigation in a Russian interference, and his twenty twenty campaign.
They are the largest. So that's another thing. If you're Cuban and you're
really planning to run for president, I guess I assumed it would be Democrat
or maybe independent. But that is something that a lot of people are gonna
think is odd that you just sold your team to the number one largest Trump
supporter family in the world. Yeah, But what it could be is that
an independent run that you know, is not going to work. Just to
get your name out there, just to get it, you know, people
to view you like that and then in four years maybe try something and they
try that sometimes too, you know, just get your name of the hat
and then make your big run. But I don't know. I don't either.
That's all way past the point. Yeah, it's a great deal for
him. He bought them after two eighty five million dollars in two thousand and
now he sells them for three point five billion and gets to keep us some
stake of the ownership and gets to continue to be the leader of the organization.
At nine o'clock, we're gonna have Tim Cato on, yeah, from
the Athletic and he will shed light on any questions we have or things we
don't get right. And one of my biggest ones is I think it's two
billion dollars goes toward the purchase, and that would mean Adelson would be acquiring
about fifty seven percent of the NBA team based on the three point five billion
dollar valuation, So he's not essentially, he's not just selling the team that
he bought for two eighty five for three point five billion. I think it's
two billion, and he still has that minority stake and he continues to run
basketball operations entirely for now. But whatever, Yes, just financially, it's
incredible, and god, is there anything more profitable than buying a professional sports
team. Yeah, that's the play. Especially basketball has seemed to be growing
too. Yeah, you had good timing. You may think a little different
about baseball. We're very fond of the Rangers right now. But you know,
baseball might not be the one where you see a high trajectory. Buying
a hockey team might not seem like the grace of that. Buying a pro
football team or an NBA team is absolutely cannot miss. Yes, sure shot
stuff. I think if you buy any NBA team or NFL team, you
essentially wait a year, wait two years, and you make a billion dollars.
Just flip it, I mean oh yeah, oh yeah, or make
it there or you just flip it and make more. Yeahtient. Did you
know anything about the Addelson family before? I mean no, Why didn't I
know who they were reading up on? It was like very interesting, very
interesting people. Yeah, Like you know, sometimes you just go when you
look at people have a lot of money. I don't know, maybe I
shouldn't be this way, but I have been like, oh, they probably
just got it handed down to them, like you you forget that, like
people earned it, like they did a lot of stuff. She's the richest
Israeli in the world, forty second richest person in the world, fifth richest
woman in the world. Is that Wow? Think her husband's died twenty twenty
one. Yeah, her husband died and her husband was the man or dude
behind the Sands Casinos Las Vegas Sands, that's the company and they own,
I guess primarily casinos in resorts in Singapore and Macau. I think they sold
all their two properties, both properties and the last veiggest strip in twenty twenty
one, and that may be where all those billions, you know, actually
came from that he passed away. And I all want to her, but
she's a doctor. She's a medical doctor. It's not like she's a who's
the RAMS lady? The Rams lady? Oh yeah, I'm McCaskey or something.
No, fuck a rams lady. I think she was like a showgirl,
right rams Zone donkey? No for her before him? Yes, who
owned? What a dumb turn that I'm wasting everyone's time with. Yeah,
but you just have to know and Walton No. Georgia Frontieri Frontiera, Yeah,
died in two thousand and eight and she had a twenty eight year ownership.
But I'm pretty sure she was a showgirl dancer maybe in Vegas. Hell
yeah, who was just a hot that married whoever the dude was. He
died, and she suddenly is one of the richest people in the world world.
And you know, anyway, it's not that she's a medical doctor,
Mary Maddilson, and you know it is very successful on her own right,
maybe not to the tune of fifth richest woman on planet Earth, but I
mean she's a legit businesswoman and a very legitimate Israeli doctor for a long time.
Sheldon Adelson, you know his nickname, Mike Old Sheldon the king Maker?
Is that right? Because of his frequency and the size of his donations
to the Republican Party over the years, they called Sheldon the king Maker.
I don't know, man. They also have the thing they have in common
here though you might be like, how does well. I think a bigger
topic that we can get into if we want is the new Arena. But
there is a focus on healthcare. And Miriam had helped with addictions and things
like that, treated patients with addictions, and her and her husband, Sheldon,
had started a charity. It's about healthcare obviously. You know Mark Cuban's
company that's basically about, Hey, if the insurance companies are screwing you,
we can try to help you get your prescription medical meds that are way more
affordable than you know, what you would have to pay out a pocket for.
And it's a very good thing. I mean, I've used cost Plus
Drugs Mark Cubans Company for the last six months or so for one thing that
I take, and it's great. Yeah, it's great. It saved a
lot of people money and helped a lot of people so far. But you
know, I don't know deeper than that. I don't want to go into
big pharm of mumbo jumbo because I don't know anything about that. Two hundred
and eighteen million dollars to conservative candidates and causes during the twenty twenty election cycle,
two hundred and eighteen million in one elect in one election cycle, and
more than ninety one million directly to President Donald Trump's re election efforts in twenty
twenty. And they're huge, you know, advocates of gambling obviously. I
mean they're the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, a big supporter of state legalization to
legalize sports betting, and established casinos. They've spent millions on lobbyists there,
so there's an obvious tie in with that. You know, Cuban a couple
of years ago said that he then mas next arena should be part of a
massive casino. I agree, Oh that sounds awesome. And you weren't do
the Venetian. Just do the Venetian here. Yeah, put the basketball,
put the arena on the fifth floor like Madison Square Garden. I don't know
if it was Danny. Last week I was talking about how Dallas needs something.
We need our own sphere. We need a couple of statues, we
need something to make people come here and be like God, I have to
take a picture. I was worth going to Dallas take a picture. And
it's not just a grassy knoll. But this might be the medium, the
happy medium where we suddenly look like Macau or Singapore and it's because of a
casinos. And whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I guess
I don't know, but it sounds kick ass. So the you know,
a new restaurant opened up a Reunion Tower. It was the old Wolfgang Puck
spot, but now it's a new restaurant. I forget what it's called actually,
and it was fine, but I'd never been. Part of the reason
I went is i'd never been to Reunion Tower. I said, oh,
I've lived here all these years, I never went up there. So I
went up there. And what they do, you know, because you can
see out it, you don't know where you're gonna sit. They seat you
at a table. Well, I happen to be sitting on the southeast side.
And then all you do is look out, so it's the opposite side
of where the buildings are, you know, and you go, yeah,
look at all this open land. Incredible, we live in this city.
You know, look, you know it exists, you know what it's like
down there. But you get up from that point of view and you go,
man, there's a room for so much more here, you mean,
like Cedars area. And then okay, that's interesting because I was wondering that
on my drive in this morning, if we were gonna build mini Vegas or
mega Vegas over the next hundred years in DFW, where it would be.
I think I have to be east of seventy five and probably a little further
south. I could see, I guess I could see it being just the
cedars that right there, right across because it makes more sense to make it
halfway up the day, up seventy five toward Frisco Plano, where everything is
already modern up there and it's just sitting there ready to go. Boy,
I think it might be up there, and maybe maybe even further north,
and maybe that's what he's thinking. Maybe it's more closer to North Dallas,
maybe even further north. Maybe maybe where roller town sits north of that even
Yeah, I don't know, because that's where I guess you can still get
the land. I mean, if you're casino owners. The Mavericks a little
different than like the Rangers had to be really careful about cannibalizing the uh fort
Worth crowd. Rangers score very well in the eight one seven. The Mavericks.
There are tons of match fans in the eight one seven, but it's
a little bit further of the hall. It's whatever it is. It's twenty
minutes and on a weeknight game, that counts when you're thinking about buying tickets
to a game. It absolutely matters to everyone. So I don't know,
Hey, maybe it's just keep adding on to what they've done right there around
that deep Elm area. Maybe they just try to make it better. I
don't know. I don't know. There's a lot of a lot of things.
Well with the Mavericks practice facility now is though there's room over there too,
Yeah, but there's room for one thing, a bunch of stuff,
a whole bunch of things. I mean, realistically, whoever does this,
I don't know that they're going to think of building a single one off casino
with a MAVs a new MAVs facility in it. Maybe they are, but
I think they'd be thinking the strip. That's reason one for this though,
right are we? Do we agree like that is the big motivation for this?
Well, I don't understand it. But with what Cuban has said in
the past and her you know, her family's success in the casino business,
yeah, that you have to immediately jump to that and think that's the reason.
But if Cuban wants to do that, why be a minority owner?
Like why sell? Now? Why do you have to go that far with
the relationship, especially when gambling is not legal in Texas yet? Right,
And I'll go ahead and tell you, like I think it should be.
I've thought that for a long time. But until the Dan Patricks of the
world and the greg Abbots of the world and the Ken Paxtons of the world
are no longer walking among us. I don't really see gambling being legalized in
Texas. I mean, dude, Bally thought gambling was going to be legal
in Texas and they had a miscalculation there. I don't think I have a
hard time believing gambling will be legal in Texas by It won't be a by
twenty twenty five. Well, what can change the minds of the greg Abbots
of the world is when the largest contributor to your party moves to town.
And maybe that's what it takes. Wants things done directly. You're talking about
Miriam Addelson who once said that there should be a book of Trump in the
Bible. Now he will finally have an answer to his favorite Bible verse.
Well, it's a very personal I don't want to answer. Now, just
give us one book. Well, look, I would hate to say it's
a very personal but I love the book best book. But I just name
one book in the Bible. Are two Corinthians, Uh Trump, it's very
personal Trump Chapter four, verse sixteen, Sleepy Joe. This serves to be
prosecuted. This is wild. It is very wild and here at one other
angle, and we'll talk about this a little later on the morning. Is
where when I was shut my eyes, I was like, what does Kyrie
think of this? You know, I dot he cares really dude, whether
he's a I think he's a smart man. But however he comes off,
he has been seemingly happy here saying all the right things. Your boss as
of what not today, But whenever this finally goes through, your boss is
now the largest donor. I mean, he considers himself politically minded, and
there was probably some peace of mind. I would think. Maybe I don't
know what he really thinks of Mark Cuban, but some level of respect.
I mean, he could be the dude, I'm not showing up for work.
I don't I'm not working for this person. Well, it's also just
telling maybe he loves it too. I don't know, Like, I don't
know where Kyrie exactly politically aligns. I just know his wheels off well.
I think also, I think there's a whole thing where I have a hard
time believing he would care about that, because it's almost like you just take
their money. They've got the money either way, and might as well take
it. There don't think Mark might be doing this might have just been too
good of a deal for him to pass out. I thought that it might
just be straight up business. Imagine if they keep the job I like doing.
I agree with that. I thought of that as well, like what
if Mark does have political aspirations, what's better than taking billions from someone who
would never contribute to you, assuming you would be liberal at all or independent
sure, and use that money to assist in the funding of I guess a
campaign which it wouldn't necessarily come out of his pocket. But there's a lot
of misinterpretations of this. Timmy so Kevin Sherrington wrote an article is like Mark
Cuban wants out? Why now? And I'm like, well, he's not
getting out. It's very clear that he's not getting out now. He could
be in the future. The other this is a small thought that crept in
my head and I don't even want to entertain it that much, but it's
like, you can't ignore the thing that jumps in your head, right.
I kind of went, does he maybe know that Luke is unhappy and might
not want to be here? And maybe it's like, what's the point of
sticking around? And trying to rewire this thing again if he were to go,
and maybe it's just getting ahead of it. I thought that now I
didn't think too much about it, and I kind of went, now,
that's stupid. So I want you to know I don't full I don't believe
that, but it is something. As we entertain ninety different angles to this
story, and we'll get into more of it little bit at eight, a
little bit eight thirty, a little bit at nine. And I think we
should do a similar story next because I think we touched about it. I
think we're about to enter a world where money is about to just take over
everything in American sports, and we're seeing an example of that possibly, and
we'll discuss that with you next on ninety seven one, The Free