Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban doesn't believe New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady deserved his four-game suspension for his involvement in Deflategate.
Cuban thinks Brady deserved more, at least if he played in the NBA.
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USA TODAY Sports' For the Win reported on posts Cuban made on his app CyberDust about the Brady suspension.
"As far as 4 games being upheld, the NBA owner in me is surprised it wasn't extended. The old saying 'the cover up is always worse than the crime' applies here.
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"Once he destroyed his phone this week all went from did he break the rules of the game to 'can he get away from deceiving the commissioner (the NFL's Roger Goodell).
"We can argue whether 4 games was too much for deflating the ball. You can't argue whether 4 games is enough for trying to make a fool out of the commissioner of the NFL.
"The NFL can't have their players, agents and Lawyers thinking that if they do wrong and just destroy the evidence, it will all be OK.
"That can undermine the integrity of the league.
"If this was the NBA, I truly think the suspension would've been more than 25pct of the season.
"So while Pats fans I'm sure will disagree, I think the punishment of 4 games for trying to destroy evidence is actually lite."
Brady has reiterated his innocence, writing a post on his Facebook page, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is accusing the NFL of leaking false information on the PSI of the footballs in question in the AFC Championship Game and never correcting it.
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