I’m a college sports fan, so why did I sit in my parked car last night listening to game one of the NBA semi-finals between Dallas and Phoenix? Mark Cuban.

I think Cuban is brilliant, he took a nobody NBA franchise in a football tradition town and turned them into a franchise that is the envy of other NBA fans. Notice I didn’t say teams. I was listening to callers on a sports talk show, and one after the other they were saying I wish Cuban owned the Lakers, or just about any other NBA team or better yet the Atlanta Braves.

Cuban was a basketball fan first, and when he purchased the Mavs his passion for basketball has earned him fines, publicity, hatred from other teams fans, and more publicity. He’s turned this whole thing into us vs. them, and it’s working. The town has the fire, the fans have the fire. And the team has a chance to make it to the NBA finals.

Call me a bandwagon fan but I have to pull for a team that the owner gets it. Cuban is a fan, and I feel a little more connected when I see the owner of an NBA team sitting in the stands biting his nails, screaming at the top of his lungs or hanging his head in disappointment.

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