NBA News: Mark Cuban Takes on Skip Bayless, Leaves With His Dignity

By | June 22, 2012|

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has never been one to bite his tongue. He is consistently one of the highest-fined owners in professional sports, and never has a problem telling people what he thinks.

Enter Skip Bayless. The brash, equally obnoxious talking head from ESPN’s First Take that enjoys taking the unpopular side of an argument and pounding it into the ground until he’s red in the face. It’s certainly a good strategy for ESPN, as he is one of the most talked about on-air personas the network has.

But this morning, Cuban and Bayless squared off in a debate for the ages. Skip, who is notoriously anti-LeBron James, found himself in the middle of an argument with an equally hard-headed individual. And we’re all better because of it. (Okay, not really, it’s just completely enjoyable to watch.)

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/CVFQCJR23FXXNWQHF45O2DO2WU Da J

    Skip Bayless is a egotistical retard. Can’t stand him. Love seeing someone smart enough to shut him up, and I can’t believe it took this long.

  • http://twitter.com/WaynesRCworld Fastwayne

    Never listen to Bayless, Stephen A nor Cuban,  they all deserve each other. Blow hards trying to one up the other.  Wanting it more, most prepared, mincing words that really don’t matter.  Would you listen to Cuban as a radio host?

  • http://www.facebook.com/arthur.vandelay.71 Arthur Vandelay

    meh

  • mamba24

    i just thought the sequence where cuban asked him what defensive schemes were the thunder using and skip just kinda had a derp moment and just started naming players and crap lmao he said what schemes were they using not who is on the team dumbass haha

  • Crystal

    I’m not a fan of Cuban but I love that he holds nothing back.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L5HKJV55PO52NOCC6WCK7MB7RE curt

    Cuban asked him comment about the zones and doubling………Skip was stumped for a munite
    apparently he has lost his B ball brain. He  just duz fo fo chick flick style commentary of no substance now.

    Nawwww that’s not it Cuban just wanted it more

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1028858614 Samuel Bel Poze Adras

    skip bayless clearly didn’t know what he was talking about. cuban made him look like a kid

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