[外電] Hearing excerpt: Cuban on Nash's exit from Mavericks

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http://tinyurl.com/mcscut From staff reports In an excerpt from the arbitration hearing transcript, Mark Cuban explains how Steve Nash got away to Phoenix in 2004: … One day we were signing him, and one day we weren’t, but there was all the reality in the middle. I’ll tell you exactly what happened, because I remember it like it was yesterday. It was at 10:00 o’clock in the morning. We went to Steve’s condo. … Donnie Nelson and I. We had all, including Mr. [Don] Nelson, kind of gotten a framework to start a negotiation from. We were going to go in there and offer him $10 million a year for four years knowing that there was a little bit of wiggle room in there that if he came back to negotiate, but that we had also agreed that he was not worth a maximum contract. And so we went in there, and it was Steve and his agent, Bill Duffy. And we walked in, and we told him the 10 years — $10 million a year for four years, you know. And, you know, he just had twins, and we were really excited. Steve ’s eyes were welling; my eyes were welling up. Steve hugs me. He hugs Donnie. … We walk out the door. Donnie and I are wiping away tears. We are high-fiving. We think this is done. Little did we know that Bill Duffy, his agent, despite the fact it was against NBA rules, already has Phoenix in Dallas. And so this is 10:00 to 10:30, 10:45. All of a sudden I get an urgent message, call Steve Nash, call Steve Nash. I’m thinking, OK, he’s ready to give me the go, all right? I go down to my office at the American Airlines Center, and I still have my notes … and I am talking to Steve, and he’s like, “Mark, I’ve got Phoenix in the room. They tell me I have to make a decision right now. I told them I had to call you first.” And I said, “OK. What’s going on?” He goes, “They made me a hell of an offer.” I said, “Well, how much did they offer you?” you know? “More than $10 million a year?” “Yeah.” “More than $11 million a year?” “Yeah.” “More than $12 million a year?” “Yes, north of Mike Bibby money,” those were his words, “north of Mike Bibby money.” And I said, “So they basically gave you a max-out contract.” “Yeah.” And I said, “Is it four years?” “No.” “Is it five years?” “No.” “So it’s six years,” the most they can give for another team. “Yeah, but the last year is only a half guarantee.” I’m like, “Oh my God.” And he’s like, “You know, it’s like match or not, match or not right now. That’s all my agent’s letting me do. There is no other, there is no let’s talk about a sign-and-trade. There’s no if only we can do this. There’s no other options. Either match or I got to say yes, because if Phoenix walks out of the” — he’s talking, “if Phoenix walks out of the room, they are rescinding their offer and you are not matching the offer, right?” I said, “Oh, my God, Steve, I mean, you know, we told you to — we wanted you to go look for other things, but we didn’t think you would come back with basically a max-out offer.” And you know — I don’t know how long I didn’t say anything, and it was like, ‘Mark,’ and I am like, “Steve, you know, I love you to death, and I wish you nothing but the best, but I can’t — I can’t meet, you know, what amounts to a maxed-out offer. And you and I discussed that before, and we know that. And, you know, I wish you all the best,” and that was it. Editor’s note: Contacted Thursday, the Phoenix Suns said they didn’t break any rules in the Nash deal. “After 12 midnight negotiations were allowed to begin with free agents and this was early the next morning clearly after negotiations could begin,” spokeswoman Julie Fie wrote in an e-mail. “Our people flew into Dallas that morning, not prior.” Mark Cuban談Nash的合約他說當時小牛開出了四年四千萬原本以為確定了但不久後Nash打電話給Cuban說鳳凰城剛開了一張約比Mike Bibby約還高然後是六年約他們要Nash現在決定是否簽約 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.42.97.21

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