During Saturday night's game 3 of the Nuggets-Mavericks Game 3, there was an exchange in which Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin's mother that her son was a thug.Cuban has now issued a public apology on his blog, to both Martin and his mother.
"at this point I would like to apologize to you and your mom KMart for my comment. I should have not said anything and I was wrong. Hopefully you will accept the apology and we can move on."
He also offered her and the other families of Nuggets players the chance to watch the game from his personal luxury suite, and/or their own suite.
"When the series comes back to Dallas, your family, and the family of other Nuggets players are welcome to stay in my suite, with my family. Its amazing how tempers mellow when real people talk to each other and realize that its still just a game.
If that isn’t acceptable, I’m happy to provide a suite, free of charge to them as well and place whatever security is needed to make them feel comfortable."
If that isn’t acceptable, I’m happy to provide a suite, free of charge to them as well and place whatever security is needed to make them feel comfortable."
Some people are questioning whether his blog was the proper outlet for this sort of thing, and I think that the fact that he hasn't met with Martin and his mom personally only serves to magnify that point. While the apology was certainly appropriate and necessary, there was probably a better and more personal way to go about it. When Cuban posts something like that on his blog, it's almost as though he's doing it more for publicity than anything else.
An Apology To Kenyon Martin's Mom [Blog Maverick]
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