In a long piece over at Grantland.com, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban discussed his 15 years in the NBA, dealing for Rajon Rondo this season and the first-round matchup with James Harden and the Houston Rockets. Here’s the jab the 56-year-old billionaire said about the Rockets’ roster:
“[The biggest difference is] practice time. There’s no more predictable team than the Rockets. You know exactly what they’re gonna do,” he says. “But James Harden is so good. That’s what analytics have begot. Right? Predictability. If you know what the percentages are, in the playoffs, you have time to counter them. Whether you’re good enough to do it is another question. Because they are very talented, and James Harden, I think, is the MVP. Because that’s not a very good team over there.”
Game 1 of this first-round playoff series is Saturday in Houston.
