With two other texas brothers (the Rockets and Spurs) rising in the 90s, the Dallas Mavericks began a new journey into the new century under new owner Mark Cuban. For more than two decades, Cuban has been with the team like a patron saint, whether it is Miami in 2006 or the championship in 2011, he let the lone ranger "never go alone". This issue of Crazy Brother comes to tell the story of the growth of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
|| Mark's upbringing ||
Mark Cuban was born on July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mark's ancestors were Jewish families in Eastern Europe, and after immigrating to the United States, mark became part of the middle class, his grandfather sold goods on trucks, and his father worked as a lifelong car decorator.
Mark inherited his grandfather's business acumen and his father's hard-working spirit. When he was 12 years old, he saved his first bucket of gold by selling garbage bags, and Mark used the money to buy his first pair of basketball shoes and has been associated with basketball ever since. In order to get into college, Mark earned $1100 in the stamp market and the currency market as the starting capital of his college career, and worked part-time as a disco dance teacher and evening host to earn college tuition.
Mark wasn't the one who lost his studies for the sake of a small profit. Interested in psychology, Mark began taking psychology courses at the University of Pittsburgh in his junior year of high school and skipping his senior year (four years of american high school) to enter the University of Pittsburgh. However, Mark found that due to his lack of social experience, he could not put his knowledge of psychology into practice, so he transferred to Indiana University to take economics courses in his sophomore year, and graduated with honors.
Like most business graduates, Mark joined a bank after graduating in 1981, but Mark found that his job would be replaced as computers became more widespread. Mark found business opportunities from the crisis of unemployment, he delved into computers and networks, and in 1982 he came to Dallas to set up his own computer consulting company, MicroSolutions, and within 7 years the company's profits reached $30 million.
In 1995, his college friend Todd Wagner found Mark and sketched him a blueprint for broadcasting sports games on the Internet, and Mark, who had just sold the company, had enough start-up capital, so the two of them immediately set up the famous sports video website BROADCAST.com, which allowed the network broadcast of North American sports events to develop rapidly.
Mark Cuban sold the company to Yahoo Sports for $5.9 billion in 1999, and the following year he bought the Dallas Mavericks (later the Lone Rangers) for $285 million, beginning his 21-year career as a Lone Ranger owner.
|| ordinary origin, extraordinary life ||
Yearning for and pursuing a better life. Growing up in a middle-class family, Mark certainly had the option of attending a vocational college and finding a decent job to spend his life in peace, but Mark knew that only by reading and mastering more knowledge could he have a better life. With his family not having the financial means to attend college, Mark earns tuition through his own hands to provide for his own college, and eventually graduates.
Know what you're going to do. Mark was interested in psychology in high school, so he crossed his senior year of high school to take a psychology course at the University of Pittsburgh. When he found himself ill-suited to study psychology, he chose to transfer to Indiana University to study more practical economics. Mark never wasted his time waiting, and once he had set his goal, he immediately moved toward it.
Mavs Fan For Life。 Although a businessman, Mark Cuban has always had empathy for his employees and his players. Former NBA player Deronti West was reduced to a tramp after retiring, and although his career as a Lone Ranger was simply terrible (he was banned indefinitely by the team), as a former member of the team, Lone Ranger boss Mark Cuban personally approached him and placed him in order to rehabilitate him from drugs, reunite with his family, and return to life.
After the defeat in the 2006 Finals, the Morale of the Lone Rangers team was low, so Mark Cuban used his private jet to take the players on vacation to Vegas to prepare for the coming year. The following year, the Lone Rangers' players did not live up to the expectations of their bosses, and the team's record ranked first in the league.
In 2011, when the Lone Ranger won the first championship in team history, team owner Mark Cuban was overjoyed, and although his idea of "replacing the championship ring with a championship bracelet" was not implemented, he spent an additional $1.4 million to build a championship ring, thinking of ways to treat players and commemorate Dallas's hard-won sports milestone. In addition to 15 players, 20 coaches plus team staff were given a $40,000 championship ring.
|| crazy brother felt ||
Stay grateful. In recent years, when disasters have occurred frequently, Mark has not made a big move to "donate money to earn fame", but has continuously donated, donating every money to institutions in need and giving back to the society with his meager strength.
If there is no definite ideal, first earn future capital. If we are immersed in the fantasy of the future, the dream will never shine into reality, and only when we continue to explore in reality will we find those truly attainable dreams. And when we find our dreams, money is the thing that can help us dream the most.
Mark Cuban is the patron saint of the Lone Rangers, and he cares about everything from building a new arena to equipping players with consoles. He built Dallas' team honor and culture. Players on the pitch are not only fighting for salary, fans are not only shouting for love off the pitch, they are all making their own efforts for the glory of the team and the glory of the city.
(Basketball Mania)