The Mavericks,
the Dallas Mavericks,
skip the national anthem recently
that got a lot of attention,
including my own husband asking me
if I heard about it.
He was excited to hear what
I had to say.
But I hadn't heard about it
everyone else had, but
the That story is
a lot more complicated than what
was originally presented to me.
It was reported that they had
abandoned the tradition altogether.
And remember Mark Cuban is
the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
So that's how it was originally
reported and then later on.
Mark Cuban said no, no, no,
that's not true.
That's not true. I didn't say that.
That's not what we're
doing >> [COUGH].
Let's go through the details as
we understand them and
then was please at any moment,
feel free to jump in and correct me
if I make any mistakes here.
So the Mavericks did not play
the anthem,