Mark Cuban clears up this 'off-season' and 'conditioning' issue that none of us could possibly understand

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Just tell us the truth

Hey, Mark Cuban's a billionaire. Surely he understands complicated issues like conditioning and the off-season more than the rest of the population.

A week or so ago, Rick Carlisle said that he was sitting Dirk Nowitzki so he could get in shape. Nowitzki was then asked and he said it was to rest his knee.

Whatever, really.

Cuban, who is so fucking awesome (just ask him), went on the Ben & Skin Show this morning and "clarified" the Nowitzki conditioning issue.

“His knee hurts because he didn’t have the time to prepare. When you don’t have the time to prepare, you’re not conditioned to play the way you’re accustomed to. So it’s not like he was a fat slob. It’s like anything else. The older you get, the more prepared you have [to be], particularly when you’re Dirk, when you have a very definitive process you go through every summer. When you can’t do that, you’re not going to be in position to play your best basketball.”

So. Nowitzki knee hurts so he took some time off. For some odd reason, Carlisle called it "conditioning."

Both Nowitzki and Cuban go public in stating that it wasn't because Nowitzki's out of shape (which is completely different from you and I being out of shape ... we mean basketball shape) but because of the knee, which isn't healthy ... because he's out of shape.

Bottomline: Nowitzki won a championship, had the weight of expectations and 30 years of relative failure lifted off his shoulders and he wanted to party a little.

We don't blame him in the least. Why the owner has to be such a condescending prick is the problem.

To me, all of this goes back to Cuban's assertion that he can control the media and that the media, actually, is not important. That he can make and break the news. Considering not a single negative thing has been printed about his basketball franchise over the past 12 months (deservedly or not) is proof that he's sort of right. Notice that Ben & Skin weren't exactly grilling Cuban on Nowitzki considering Cuban pays at least part of Skin's paycheck.

Mavericks fans were treated like shit in the way the team handled the Roddy Beaubois injury ordeal last season. This small blip is the same thing. Ownership doesn't think you are very smart and they sort of talk as if this were fact.

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