The Mavericks vs. the Bloggers

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Tuesday’s Layup Drill
Published 3/11/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
... He’s going to leave the door open to play tomorrow night, but I suspect the Pistons will shut him down for another game so that he’ll be as healthy as possible for Friday’s game against the Spurs. Mark Cuban says bloggers are no longer allowed in the locker room since “a blogger is a blogger is a blogger.” (I just wish someone had told me earlier — I’m behind on my funny kitten pictures.) Henry Abbott challenges Cuban’s position. (Whew, I’m not much of a cat person ...

The Internets: Cuban bans bloggers from Mavs' locker room
Published 3/11/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
... TrueHoop: "Time will certainly prove Mark Cuban wrong in his assessment that all bloggers must be given equal access. For one thing, it's impractical. I very much doubt the Mavericks can offer every interested blogger the kind of access they are now offering Tim McMahon (which includes a seat at a game), which Cuban appears to be promising. ... A lot of bloggers, I'm thinking, do not expect to be allowed into locker rooms. I know I probably lose every time if the debate is which kind of blog is most fun at a party. But I think I ought to win if the contest ...

Orlando Magic News for March 11th: Turk Eligible for Most-Improved Award
Published 3/11/2008 by Ben Q Rock <info@thirdquartercollapse.com> at Third Quarter Collapse: Front Page Posts
... Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has controversially banned bloggers from the Mavericks' locker room. Henry Abbott of TrueHoop has a brilliantly concise rundown of the situation here. Anyway, Hardwood Paroxysm offered its take on the Cuban Blogger Crisis in ...

Henry Abbott on Cuban, Mavs, Bloggers
Published 3/11/2008 by DanShanoff.com at Dan Shanoff
You don't have to care about sports-blog "inside baseball" to find this reporting and analysis by Henry Abbott about the Mavs banning bloggers to be fascinating. ...

Tuesday Linkage
Published 3/11/2008 by Ben <info@blazersedge.com> at Blazer's Edge: Front Page Posts
... UPDATE: Henry at TrueHoop mentions Blazers Edge at the end of his must-read look at Mark Cuban's ill-conceived war against bloggers. The Blazers are 100% right on this issue. My guess is Mr. Cuban will see the light and come to his senses sooner rather than later... ...

Just for the record
Published 3/11/2008 by perkisabeast at perkisabeast.com Blog
... While Truehoop’s Henry Abbott is all aflutter about Mark Cuban banning bloggers from the locker room. We are not surprised, the Celtics banned us from the locker room as soon as the team got popular. How’s that for loyalty? ...

Preview and Chat: The Toronto Raptors
Published 3/11/2008 by Kurt at Forum Blue And Gold
... Cuban Banning Bloggers: I’m not going to try and do more than Henry Abbot did today over at TrueHoop. He sums it up well. ...

Cheap Shots #119
Published 3/12/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Why Cuban’s “No Bloggers In The Locker Room” Policy Makes No Sense: Funny that it’s coming from Mark Cuban, of all owners. [True Hoop] ...

The Owner With A Boner Doesn’t Hate Bloggers. Just One Specific Blogger
Published 3/12/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Except this isn’t just a case of every Tom, Dick & Blogger. MacMahon’s coverage is of a relatively high quality, and while the vehicle for delivery might be relatively new, he’s every bit as real a journalist as his print media colleagues. And that, writes True Hoop’s Henry Abbott, might be what caught Cuban’s attention. ...

Links: Evaluation, Nuggets Blogs, Blogger Ban
Published 3/13/2008 by Spartacus at 3 Shades of Blue - A Memphis Grizzlies Blog
... , TrueHoop, et al) and agree with much of what has been said. Of course, as it so happens, we here at 3SoB have been politely asked to refrain from contacting anyone within the Grizzlies organization after our initial sitdown with Chris Wallace, even as we continue to provide some of the best coverage of the team outside of the lone newspaper in town. We have abided by that, even as other teams give blogs more access that we have ever dreamed of requesting. I have no problem with teams protecting themselves from media outlets that would seek to ...

Random Shizzle: Dirty edition
Published 3/14/2008 at Hornets247.com Blog
... League office will see it the same way and hand down a suspension. And just in case you haven't seen it, here's the YouTubeness... Adam Haluska is back on the radar, having latched on with the D-League's Iowa Energy. He played his first game on Tuesday and racked up 19 points and 7 rebounds. Meanwhile, Marcus Vinicius is nowhere to be found. Back to TrueHoop: Mr. Abbott tackles Mark Cuban's ban on bloggers in the Mavs locker room. A fine read. The NBA really does ...

Is Cuban Schitzophrenic, or Just Full of Himself?
Published 3/14/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... Cuban is either being incredibly obtuse in order to make a point about his blogger ban, or a substantial portion of his business portfolio of the past several years is a complete sham. Neither option seems commendable. (This seems like a good place to link to two of the best takes on the blogger ban from [shudder] actual blogs: Henry Abbott's TrueHoop post [pay no attention to discussion of that Ziller fellow], and Hardwood Paroxysm's ...

Buzzer Beaters - 03/16
Published 3/16/2008 by Connor at Hoops Addict
* It seems that every blogger has been up in arms about Mark Cuban’s decision to ban bloggers from the Mavericks locker room. While reading through a flood of posts on this topic, the only bloggers who I have agreed with (to varying degrees) are Hardwood Paroxysm, Odenized, and True Hoop. As much as I would like to see bloggers gain access to locker rooms, in larger markets such as Toronto, New York, Dallas and Los Angeles, there just isn’t enough room. When you factor in beat writers for local newspapers, people snagging ...

Game #68 - Preview: Celtics @ Mavericks
Published 3/20/2008 by Jim at Green Bandwagon: Front Page Posts
... Finally, the Mavericks have recently banned blogs from the their locker room for home games. And regardless of what Cuban says a number of people believe the decision stems from his unhappiness with Dallas Morning News blogger Tim MacMahon. I don't know if that's true. But I do buy the argument that Cuban is incredibly keyed into content on the Internet. Just read this ...

50 Reasons Being an NBA Blogger is the "S"
Published 4/7/2008 by kellex at le basketbawl: The NBA Basketball Blog
... NBA jersey in public. Deleting comments pisses certain individuals off. It allowed some random guy to visit every single NBA arena. Writing about broke ass NBA players is entertaining. Because I love Damon Jones’ style. Because I can say “I wrote a blog about that before he did!” Mark Cuban is a hypocrite. You can call yourself ...