DALLAS - If this turns into anything more than playful teasing from one outspoken NBA owner to another, let it be known that Mark Cuban threw the first punch at Mikhail Prokhorov.
And he started with a haymaker.
"He's a p---y," Cuban quipped Thursday when asked about Prokhorov.
Cuban, who spoke while on his exercise bike in the Mavericks locker room, lifted his head up to smile, and then continued to verbally jab at the Nets' new owner.
"(Prokhorov) doesn't come to games," Cuban said. "Who the hell knows?"
When (Johnson) was with us, the expectation was to win a championship," Cuban said. "I don't think that's the situation right now with the Nets. I think he recognizes that his job is progress more than rings right now. But you never know. If Prokhorov does what I did to try to make deals and get something before the trade deadline then all that changes.
"But, you know, building a true professional team means having to spend money. We just haven't seen it."
Asked if there was any added motivation to beat Prokhorov's team, Cuban responded, "Who?"
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so much for the blueprint to greatness and all the talk outta that team....


