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Cuban likens whiffing on Rondo to a business risk

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports

The sad tale of Rajon Rondo and the Dallas Mavericks is in the past, but it was reborn Wednesday thanks to the Boston media when the Mavs visited the Celtics.

Asked about the gamble to acquire the mercurial point guard from Boston last December, billionaire Mavericks owner Mark Cuban basically put it in simple business terms.

"Shit happens, right?" Cuban said, according to MassLive.com's Jay King. "There's a lot of risks I've taken that have worked out just fine. They're not all gonna work."

But before Cuban totally dismissed the deal as a failed "Shark Tank" scheme, he was quick to point out his team landed Dwight Powell in that same trade that featured five players and two draft picks. The Canadian forward has now emerged as an important rotation piece in Dallas.

"I think when it's all said and done, that (Jae) Crowder-for-Powell trade will be a break even," Cuban added.

Crowder isn't doing so bad in Boston himself. And even Rondo, seven months removed from setting fire to his bridge with the Mavericks, is putting up good numbers for the dysfunctional Sacramento Kings.

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