Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban played the fashion police on Thursday by criticizing the NBA's choice to make all 10 teams during its slew of games on Christmas Day wear short sleeved jerseys, The billionaire owner said he "hated" the jerseys the teams wore.
"Hated them," Cuban said before the Mavericks lost 116-107 to the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night per ESPN. "I just thought it made our guys look more like a high school wrestling team or a college wrestling team."
Cuban was just one of many people within the NBA to criticize the holiday jerseys that teams donned on Wednesday. Luckily for Cuban, his team had off and didn't have to wear the jerseys Christmas Day. Still, he felt very strongly about how other teams looked in them.
Cuban said he understood why the league would market the jerseys for fans who don't want to wear tank tops, but he didn't feel as though the players actually had to wear them in order for them to sell.
"I could have thought of better ways to sell [the short-sleeved jerseys] and a lot of different ways by having them in a casual-wear situation," Cuban said, according to ESPN. "We would have been better off, if we want people to wear them casually, to get the trainers and everybody else to wear them to show them in a realistic setting. So I would have done it a little differently, but we'll see what happens."
Cuban said he believed that the hardcore fans will buy them and they'll sell well but fans won't like the tight fit.
"I think the people that will buy them are more the jersey heads and the people who are trying to be hip and cool as opposed to the mainstream fan who just wants something to wear to work or something to wear to school," Cuban told ESPN. "I don't think schools are going to be happy if 16-year-old boys come in wearing skin-tight gym wrestling gear. My opinion, they'll sell, but we could have sold more."
He added: "You live and you learn. That's just my opinion. Maybe I'll be wrong. Maybe they'll sell like gangbusters in China."
Cuban will have some more important things to worry about as the Cavaliers (16-13) have lost three of their last four games and travel to Chicago to play the Bulls (11-16) on Saturday.
Dallas is currently in eighth place in the Western Conference and third in the Southwest Division.
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