Mark Cuban on DeAndre Jordan: 'Never did I think I had to quarantine the guy'

Mark Cuban remains perplexed as the dust settles on DeAndre Jordan's decision to spurn the Dallas Mavericks and return to the Los Angeles Clippers and new details of the controversy come to light.

Particulars of where and when Cuban and Chandler Parsons wined and dined Jordan - a private room at Nobu - and what exactly unfolded at the big man's house the day he u-turned back to the Clippers were among the facts revealed Monday in a report by ESPN's Ramona Shelburne and Tim MacMahon.

Cuban reiterated to ESPN that he never saw Jordan's about-face coming.

"Never in a million years did I think I had to quarantine the guy," Cuban said of the days between the Mavs' verbal agreement with Jordan and the lifting of the NBA's moratorium on player movement.

Jordan's perceived jump to Dallas was even sealed with a toast. "They all had tequila," Cuban said. "I had vodka."

Cuban said he drove by Jordan's Houston home on July 7, but didn't go back the following day, when Doc Rivers, Steve Ballmer, Chris Paul, J.J. Redick, and Paul Pierce were there to make the Clippers' last-ditch pitch.

"What do you think I'm going to do, cowboy it up and kick the door in?" Cuban said. "Come on. That's not how you do business."

As for what was really going on inside Jordan's house while basketball Twitter devolved into a plethora of emjois, ESPN has the goods:

Jordan had basically decided to return to the Clippers by mid-afternoon. Then they all kind of just hung out for five or six hours to make sure he signed the contract after 11:01 p.m. local time. Rivers watched summer league games. Redick, Pierce, Paul, and Jordan played spades and video games.

Rivers reportedly clashed with one of Jordan's agents, Jarinn Akana, as the two exchanged heated words once Akana arrived at Jordan's home, according to Shelburne and MacMahon. Akana reportedly felt the Clippers were behaving unethically, while Rivers believed Akana and fellow agent Dan Fegan were acting in Cuban's best interest rather than Jordan's.

On a more comical note, the report also revealed that Blake Griffin's infamous door-guarding tweet was in fact produced using a Google stock image.