MORE MARK CUBAN.

If you know me, you know that I love Mark Cuban. I love him a little because he is rich. I love him a lot because he is crazy and obsessive. As owner of the Dallas Mavericks he's become an NBA basketball fanatic. Which means he now spends an enormous amount of time and money on basketball related things. In the past he's hired staticians to travel around and track NBA referee activity, worked at a Diary Queen to prove a point, beamed a Mavericks logo into the sky like the Batman light and made countless absurd and fantastic statements, all provoking the ire of NBA commissioner David Stern.



And now he's at it again. NBA commissioner Stern has decided to introduce a new ball to the game. Many players have complained about the new ball and new Cuban has joined in. But the best thing about Cuban is that he doesn't just complain; he takes action. He's hired a team of scientists to study the new ball. The results:

1. The new ball doesn't absorb water well, making it slippery.
2. The new ball bounces differently off the backboard.
3. When dropped from five feet, the new ball bounces back 4" lower than the old ball.

All of these factors could significantly affect the performance of players, which I believe gives them the right to complain about the change. Thank you Mark Cuban for being so rich, so passionate about basketball and so magnificently crazy.