NBA Fines Mark Cuban $25,000 Over Twitter Comments

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 31, 2009 - 12:02pm.

Dallas - Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban was fined $25,000 by the NBA over comments he made about basketball officials on Twitter, PEHub.com reported. The outspoken Cuban has racked up nearly $2 million in NBA fines to date for his antics. "how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground ?," reads one of the offending Cuban tweets. "can't say no one makes money from twitter now. the nba does )," Cuban wrote later.