Mark Cuban’s Good Crazy Side

There’s a crazy side to professional basketball that has nothing to do with tabloids and ethics. It’s actually a “good crazy” kind of like when you were a kid and ran into your English teacher at the grocery store. That was weird because teachers aren’t real people who eat food and drive a car. But there’s something fun about seeing things out of context like this video of Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks.

Cuban has had his share of negative publicity stemming from juvenile conversations with an opposing  player’s mother in the stands or infantile exhibitions protesting referees. But to see him at a World Wrestling Enteratinment (WWE) event gettin’ his butt handed to him is just fun to see, even if staged. Sorry to ruin the myth for those of you who still think wrestling is the real deal. (You and I should also talk some time about a certain fairy who allegedly exchanges money for teeth.)

Flanking Cuban at the arena that night were Shawn Merion and Drew Gooden, Dallas Mavericks players, and if I didn’t know better, I would’ve expected them to form a three-man tag team to challenge the fellas in the “shorter-than-Daisy Duke” briefs. But they didn’t. And I was disappointed. Nevertheless, I was reminded that basketball can and should be fun on and off the court. It’s nice to see an NBA player throw out a pitch at a Dodgers game or Steve Nash go, literally, toe-to-toe with a soccer great doing tricks at halftime of an exhibition game. These instances humanize the superhuman. Here’s to Cuban being rammed into an 8′ table in front of Screaming WWE enthusiasts.