Dallas Mavericks: Mark Cuban Uses Twitter To Discuss Officiating

During a frustrating game, Mark Cuban took to Twitter to free his mind on his team and officiating.

It’s no secret that Mark Cuban is not a fan of the way games are officiated in the NBA. Throughout his time as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s been nailed with many hefty fines due to his words regarding refs or the way that they operate during games, most notably during and after the 2006 NBA Finals.

Earlier in the 2015-16 season, Cuban again opened his mind on the situation as he proclaimed that three-second violations had been lacking. He explained that the Mavs had turned in games for review and that the NBA had come back to them explaining how they had missed quite a few obvious violations.

Soon after, it seemed as if more and more of the calls began to show up during games at the American Airlines Center.

On Mar. 25, during a game against the Golden State Warriors, Cuban reopened his thoughts on referees via Twitter, as he thought they were many questionable calls and no-calls throughout the course of the game.

Cuban started things off by going after referee Derrick Stafford, talking about how he was simply calling travels that weren’t there and not calling various violations like moving screens.

Rick Carlisle is famous for getting a technical at times when his team needs a boost, but Cuban seemed to believe that Carlisle needed to yell about the officiating this time around.

Cuban tweeted again soon after that and gave a few short and self-explanatory thoughts on his view of what NBA referees should be like.

Later on, Cuban expressed his frustration with some calls against Dwight Powell and said that he gets more fouls for “doing nothing” than anyone else playing in the league.

That wasn’t the end of things either as Cuban included a few other replies and retweets the criticized the way the refs were operating against the Mavs.

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Watching the game, it was obvious that the refs were missing some calls, but that’s just how it tends to go against teams like the Warriors or other elite teams like the San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers. When your team has a ton of wins plus players that serve as faces of the NBA, there will be calls that don’t exactly match the beliefs of the opposing players.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has been fairly lenient of Cuban’s behavior since he acquired the job. Besides a $25,000 fine for discussing received commitments from Wesley Matthews and DeAndre Jordan during the summer, Cuban has avoided any serious trouble.

That is most likely going to change now. It’s one thing to speak to the media in the locker room about something that mainly fans and individuals around the franchise will hear about but it’s another thing to blast a specific person on Twitter where millions of people will see it almost instantly.

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Whether it’s simply an act of acknowledging a real problem in the NBA or just the fact that Cuban is frustrated with his team’s recent play, he did mention a few well-known flaws in the officiating system. For that, he is most likely going to lose a little extra cash.