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DALLAS -- Mark Cuban faced off with TNT's Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley
in
cyberspace this week, before the feud spilled over to TV.
The Mavericks owner took exception on his blog (blogmaverick.com) with
comments from Barkley and Smith on the Mavs' defense after Tuesday's
double
overtime win at Phoenix. Cuban wrote about the "idiots on TNT" and added
there is "a reason why Kenny and Charles haven't gotten head coaching
jobs."
The TNT duo fired back Thursday night, spending a good deal of time
justifying their basketball credentials and taking shots at Cuban.
Smith: "If there's some idiot around here, it's not sitting in this
studio."
Barkley: "I'll never have as much money as [Cuban], I'll never know as
much
about computers, but if he lives to be 1,000, he will never know more
about
basketball than [Smith and I]. If he knew something, he wouldn't have put
that little soft cake team together."
Cuban said he holds no ill will toward Smith and Barkley.
"No bad blood. They are great guys and I think the world of them," Cuban
said Friday. "But the same old, same old gets old, so I blogged about it."
Cuban wasn't backing down from his criticism.
"They say the exact same things about each team and player every time they
play," Cuban said. "They talk in generalities when they could easily offer
more in depth information. And they could actually back up what they say
with facts, which would make them more authoritative and interesting."
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