Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic (right) and Mark Cuban (left) argue a call during the second half of the game against the New Orleans Pelicans at the American Airlines Center. |Cuban spoke at length about the stunning move in a Thursday interview.

by: Dan Lyons

For 24 years, Mark Cuban was one of the most recognizable owners in sports. After selling off his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson and Dumont family, the outspoken Cuban is on the of team affairs, which was made clear by February’s

Cuban did not have much advanced notice of the deal, according to NBA insider Marc Stein, and was too late when he to back out of the deal. The trade also made clear that Cuban no longer manages the team’s basketball operations, something that

In some of his most detailed comments since the trade, Cuban told WFAA that he was “upset” by the trade. His biggest issue: the return that Doncic fetched.

“If the Mavs are going to trade Luka, that’s one thing. Just get a better deal,” Cuban said. “No disrespect to Anthony Davis, but I still firmly believe, if we had gotten four unprotected number [first-round draft picks] and Anthony Davis and Max Christie, this would be a different conversation.”

When asked directly whether he ever would’ve traded Doncic, he did not want to entertain the hypothetical.

“I’m not going to go there. It doesn’t even matter.”

Cuban’s most interesting takeaway may be with the franchise’s struggles to articulate the move under its new ownership.

“You’re going to make mistakes. I think the biggest challenge that the Mavs have right now is there’s nobody who’s really outgoing to communicate. It’s not so much what you do, but how you communicate what you do what you do.”