Mark Cuban Could Buy Back the Dallas Mavericks with Investment Group

Tensions Around Team Management

Since selling his majority stake, Mark Cuban was expected to remain deeply involved in basketball operations alongside the Dumont and Adelson families. “Nothing has really changed except my bank account,” Cuban said in 2023. “I feel really good. I think it’s an excellent partnership. It’s what the team needed on and off the court. I’ll continue to oversee the basketball side.”

BREAKING: An unidentified Dallas investor group is interested in partnering with Mark Cuban to buy the Mavericks back from Patrick Dumont, @TheSteinLine has learned.

A source close to Dumont told me « the family remains excited about the future of the franchise and the Cooper… pic.twitter.com/C1lCVwZt4X

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 9, 2026

The reality, though, appears more complicated. Mark Cuban was reportedly not consulted ahead of the Luka Dončić trade last season—a move so unpopular it eventually contributed to Nico Harrison’s dismissal on November 11. One team source told ESPN’s Tim MacMahon that Cuban was “overvaluing” his actual influence inside the organization.

Cuban didn’t hide his frustration publicly. “If the Mavs are going to trade Luka, that’s one thing,” he said last March. “Just get a better deal. No disrespect to Anthony Davis, but I firmly believe that if we had gotten four unprotected first-round picks, Anthony Davis and Max Christie, it would be a different conversation.”

The Franchise’s Uncertain Future

Currently, Cuban still holds 27% of the franchise as a minority owner and serves as official advisor to Dumont since Harrison’s firing. However, according to Stein, this stake « can be reduced to 7% by Miriam Adelson/Dumont at the new owners’ discretion within the first four years of the partnership. »

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Reached Monday, Mark Cuban declined to comment. On Patrick Dumont’s side, a source told Marc Stein that the family “remains excited about the future of the franchise and the Cooper Flagg era.”

What’s unclear is whether Cuban has real interest in teaming up with a group to buy back the Dallas Mavericks—or whether Dumont would entertain a sale at all. If the chatter proves accurate, it would reopen questions about how the fallout from the Dončić deal and the subsequent Anthony Davis salary dump have shaped Cuban’s confidence in the organization’s new direction.