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By the time Mark Cuban arrived in the Dallas Mavericks' locker room, he'd already peeled off the Jerry Stackhouse jersey he had been wearing in support of his suspended forward.
The symbolism was fitting: Stackhouse's hard foul in Game 4 of the NBA finals was old news. The way Game 5 finished, Cuban had a whole new fight on his hands.
Cuban was irate over what he considered a series of officiating breakdowns at the end of Dallas' 101-100 overtime loss to the Miami Heat on Sunday night. The loss left the Mavericks trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination going into Game 6 in Dallas on Tuesday night.
When time ran out in Game 5, Cuban ran onto the court to vent at official Joe DeRosa, then stared down and screamed toward commissioner David Stern and a group of league officials, from the court, then the stands.
Cuban was still boiling about a half-hour later during a testy interview with reporters.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/nba/specials/playoffs/2006/06/19/cuban.reaction.ap/index.html
The symbolism was fitting: Stackhouse's hard foul in Game 4 of the NBA finals was old news. The way Game 5 finished, Cuban had a whole new fight on his hands.
Cuban was irate over what he considered a series of officiating breakdowns at the end of Dallas' 101-100 overtime loss to the Miami Heat on Sunday night. The loss left the Mavericks trailing the series 3-2 and facing elimination going into Game 6 in Dallas on Tuesday night.
When time ran out in Game 5, Cuban ran onto the court to vent at official Joe DeRosa, then stared down and screamed toward commissioner David Stern and a group of league officials, from the court, then the stands.
Cuban was still boiling about a half-hour later during a testy interview with reporters.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/nba/specials/playoffs/2006/06/19/cuban.reaction.ap/index.html