Mark Cuban says he cleared the air with Clippers' Ballmer over Jordan saga

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With NBA owners meeting in Las Vegas on Tuesday, an awkward moment was sure to be shared between Dallas Mavericks honcho Mark Cuban and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer – less than a week after the great DeAndre Jordan Texas two-step of 2015.

And while Cuban admits the encounter started off "frigid," he says the two technology billionaires quickly cleared the air over the matter. In a posting on his new toy Cyber Dust on Wednesday, he said:

It started off more than a little frigid, but we both cleared the air on a few things. I told him exactly what I told other owners, I didn't have a problem with his Hail Mary approach to keeping a player. I understood why they did it. And even how they did it. They got their player back. End of story. (There) are still a few unresolved issues that the NBA will have to work through but one I don't feel is an issue is the moratorium. Nothing that happened with this deal was the result of the moratorium. The thing about the NBA is that you don't know which deals are the good deals and which arrows you avoided till you start playing the games. My guess is that we open the season against the Clippers. That's when the real fun will begin.

Listen, Cuban is a businessman and knows there's no rule to stop what happened. He probably would have done the same thing if another franchise was about to sign one of his players.

It's an interesting sentence about the "arrows" however.

And in summary, he's right. Let's hope the NBA schedules Clippers-Mavericks in Dallas for a TNT doubleheader early in the season.

- With H/T to The Dallas Morning News