First: the quote from
Don Nelson on his $6.3 million arbitration victory over
Mark Cuban in a dispute over missing wages,
captured by Tim Kawakami of the
San Jose Mercury News and spread by
Ball Don't Lie and
TrueHoop.
This was just receiving what I've already earned and been owed for a long time. He just wanted to make life difficult for me. It's like a pimple on his behind. But it was a big number for me.
$6.3 million's a whole lotta bagels
^, but someone who
plays poker in Maui with Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson probably isn't struggling to keep cream cheese in the fridge. Still, Cuban's ridiculously wealthy, he owed Nellie this money, and in
Marc Stein's ESPN.com story, Cuban admits as much.
"I got exactly what I wanted out of the deal -- the true facts of the situation. ... It was all worth the hassle to find out what really happened."
In case you've forgotten, Cuban withheld the cash and sued Nelson for
using his secret knowledge of the Mavericks to beat them in the playoffs when coaching the Warriors. I'm shocked that this line of argument did not work!
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