Mark Cuban is taking his successor to court docket.
The previous Dallas Mavericks majority proprietor Cuban is suing present Mavericks majority proprietor Patrick Dumont for allegedly freezing him out of enterprise alternatives associated to the workforce. The Dallas Morning Information reports that Cuban has alleged that Dumont shut him out of the workforce’s plans for a brand new enviornment and different profitable improvement alternatives.
Cuban’s submitting reportedly claims that Dumont engaged in “adversarial enterprise practices” in his efforts to maneuver the Mavericks to the location of the previous Valley View Mall in Dallas, Texas (some 10-15 miles north of the workforce’s present house of American Airways Middle in Dallas, Texas). The billionaire businessman Cuban claims that he nonetheless has a proper to be concerned within the workforce’s enterprise alternatives and is requesting additional particulars concerning the funds and company construction of the Mavericks’ challenge for a brand new enviornment.
You may learn The Dallas Morning Information’ full report on the scenario here.
Cuban formally offered his controlling curiosity within the Mavericks to Dumont and his mother-in-law Miriam Adelson again in 2023. Finally, Cuban explained why exactly he decided to sell the team.
However the relationship between Cuban and Dumont has quickly deteriorated over the past couple of years. Cuban, who continues to be a minority proprietor of the Mavericks to today, anticipated that he would nonetheless have a say over the workforce’s day-to-day basketball operations. Nevertheless, that finally proved to not be the case, most notably when Cuban was not consulted by Dumont on the workforce’s franchise-altering commerce of famous person Luka Doncic in 2025.
Earlier this yr, Cuban reportedly explored the possibility of buying back his controlling curiosity from the Dumont-Adelson household however was finally rebuffed. Cuban has since expressed his regrets over whom he sold the team to, and now he’s taking Dumont to court docket over his newest grievance concerning the Mavericks.
