Months earlier, Yahoo had purchased Cuban’s Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion in Yahoo stock. So, yes, Cuban could more than afford the Mavericks. “I remember sitting on the [Mavericks] bus right after I bought the team, with Nellie and [Mavericks assistant] Del [Harris],” Cuban recalls. “Yahoo’s stock price had just gone up like $75. I said, ‘Oh, I just paid for the Mavs purchase.’ That’s how crazy it was. “It was funny money.”