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Michael Jordan was standing in his Washington Wizards management suite that night 23 years ago when he noticed that someone down on the court, next to the Dallas Mavericks bench, seemed to be gesturing toward him.“Who is that?” he wondered.That was Mark Cuban, the Mavericks’ brand-new, forty-year-old billionaire owner.“Is he threatening to come up here and fight me?” Jordan asked. No. Cuban was just excited that his Mavericks, then one of the NBA’s worst and least interesting franchises, had beaten the Wizards by eighteen points. At that point in the Mavs’ history, any morsel of success probably tasted like a championship. Even from Jordan’s perch far above the court, he could see that Cuban was going to be unlike any other owner in NBA history.…

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