You won’t find Mark Cuban putting up money for an NBA Europe franchise.
The former Mavericks majority owner told Front Office Sports on an episode of Portfolio Players that he couldn’t justify spending the reported $500 million to $1 billion the NBA is seeking for franchises in its prospective European league.
Agent Misko Ražnatović, a major figure in European basketball, told FOS the NBA Europe price tags are “science fiction” to him.
Cuban said he recently met with a banker working on the European project and came away with a similar sentiment.
“I can buy a team in a smaller league, win that country’s league and work my way up,” Cuban explained to FOS.
