Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban hasn’t always been on the side of players on his team protesting during the national anthem.
It was back in 2017 that he said he would stand and have his hand over his heart, and that he “expects” his players to stand for The Star-Spangled Banner that would play before games, in the wake of what Colin Kaepernick and other athletes were doing in 2016.
But last June, he told ESPN’s Outside the Lines, “I think we’ve learned a lot since 2017. I think we’ve evolved as a country. And this is really a unique point in time where we can grow as a society, we can grow as a country and become far more inclusive.”
That has led to Cuban to stop playing the anthem before Mavericks home games this season. Here’s everything we know about that decision so far: