“How could you let Steve Nash go?”  It’s a question I’m going to hear for a long time. It’s a question Mavs fans deserve an answer to. As best I can, I will try to go through all the logical, illogical, emotional and financial scenarios that we explored in putting together the offer that we thought would keep Steve a Dallas Maverick for the rest of his career. read on...

[Via Blog Maverick]

Wow. I just read this and I am beyond impressed. I have been reading Mark Cuban's blog for some time now, and it never ceases to amaze me how accessible this guy is. And right now, I am absolutely green with envy for Dallas Mavericks fans.

This blog entry by Mark gives the sports fans a look at the process. He divulges everything that led up to Steve Nash, star point guard, signing with the Phoenix Suns. He clues us in to the contract talks, the discussions with the agent. He tells us what was going through his head every step of the way. He gives us the compare and contrast about how the business of signing a basketball player is totally different from "normal" business. In short, he gives us backstage access to the part about sports that every fan wishes he could be a fly on the wall for.

I know I would like my teams' owners/managers to have blogs, and be this open. I think if I spend the money and emotional capital being as big a fan as I am of my teams, then I deserve to have Danny Ainge blog about why he traded away almost all of the Celtics last year. I want Theo Epstein to blog about why he isn't making a move for more starting pitching, and how he lost out on the Beltran and Garcia races. Then I want Tito Francona to blog about why he won't bunt, won't send runners, and won't leave David Ortiz in for extra innings. While we're at it, Mike O'Connell can get on the bandwagon and blog about what he's doing to keep the Bruins from exiting in the first round next year, and Jeremy Jacobs can blog about why he spends more money trying to land the concessions contract at Buffalo's arena than he does on getting and keeping the right players for the team. I'm never really pissed at Bob Kraft or Bill Belichick

Because now, folks, Mark Cuban has set a precedent. He's become the accessible sports owner. And by his accessiblity, he has accountability to fans, and when things are going badly, that's all we ever really want anyway is accountability. We just want to know why things are how they are. If I were a Mavs fan, I would have been super pissed about Nash leaving, but at least after reading Mark's blog, I would understand it.