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Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Exposed “Basic” Skip Bayless Over 12 Years Ago

Arun Sharma
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Skip Bayless Has Always Been "Basic", Mark Cuban Exposed Him 12 Years Ago

To be considered a sports journalist is one of the highest honors one can receive. You have millions of people waiting for your views after the game. Skip Bayless, on the other hand, is eagerly anticipated for his meme-worthy content rather than his basketball knowledge.

A perennial hater of all things LeBron James, Bayless has a template in mind when he talks about the Lakers man. It’s either “no clutch gene” when he misses last-minute shots or “Michael Jordan would never” if he passes to an open teammate. Either way, he wouldn’t be impressed if LeBron invented the cure for cancer.

So when he brought Mark Cuban to try and egg him on to join the LeBron-hating bandwagon all those years ago, it backfired spectacularly.

Not yet the white-haired, marathon-running, up-to-no-good presenter he is today, Skip and his golden locks thought Mark Cuban was going to take his side. Why not, since his team had successfully shut down Bron? In a finals appearance, that was so crucial to his legacy. 8 points in a finals game is no joke.

However, Mark Cuban knew what he was up against. Placed in the middle of Stephen A. Smith and Bayless, he started shooting facts in quick succession. Skip was reeling; he couldn’t collect himself.

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Skip Bayless is out of his depth when asked about Basketball – Mark Cuban had one question to prove it

Many NBA franchise owners have been called passive in the past. Nobody cared what their team was doing—as long as they got their money. The trend changed when a fresh-faced billionaire named Mark Cuban came onto the scene. He was not a tech genius who lucked into money; he was also a superfan.

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Cuban asked Skip Bayless one question: “What defensive schemes did we run on LeBron James?” to which his reply was laughable. Struggling to even string two words together, Skip proved Mark’s exact point. He called almost all mass-media sports analysts “basic” because they only speak in generalities.

We all are to blame—we watch Undisputed more than “Old Man and the Three.” Nobody has time for insightful, resource-based debates; instead, the public enjoys a grandfather screaming his heart out about someone fit enough to be his grandson.

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Mark Cuban is not just a tech entrepreneur who lucked into buying an NBA team

For the past 23 years, Mark Cuban has toiled tirelessly to tame a wild bronco like the Dallas Mavericks. A franchise that had no direction was brought into shape quite seamlessly. He did all of this not because he knows how to run a business; he did it because he understands basketball.

The clip here shows everything a sports “analyst” should be. Speaking about what plays were run, what succeeded, and why. Reading numbers off a sheet isn’t analyzing anything; you’ve got automated voices for that now.

Mark was proud to speak about how his team operated better to stop a marauding LeBron James. He called for respect for having figured out what Bron was capable of and adjusting their gameplay accordingly. But once he heard Skip say that LeBron failed and you didn’t succeed, he lost it.

Cuban also deserves respect for going onto a show that was set up for him to get irate. He outclassed the most-watched “analyst” out there, all while wearing an I Love Smurfs shirt. Skip Bayless got his tongue tied by a smooth-talking Cuban; Stephen A.’s silence is a testament to that.

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Arun Sharma

Arun Sharma

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Arun Sharma is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. A double degree holder and a digital marketer by trade, Arun has always been a sports buff. He fell in love with the sport of basketball at a young age and has been a Lakers fan since 2006. What started as a Kobe Bryant obsession slowly turned into a lifelong connection with the purple and gold. Arun has been an ardent subscriber to the Mamba mentality and has shed tears for a celebrity death only once in his life. He believes January 26, 2020, was the turning point in the passage of time because Kobe was the glue holding things together. From just a Lakers bandwagoner to a basketball fanatic, Arun has spent 16 long years growing up along with the league. He thinks Stephen Curry has ruined basketball forever, and the mid-range game is a sight to behold. Sharma also has many opinions about football (not the American kind), F1, MotoGP, tennis, and cricket.

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