Ok, maybe it isn't as obvious to everyone as I thought. But here it is in a nutshell. Cuban was specifically speaking to the motive of a player. That a team would give a max contract to LeBron but not to Ilgauskus is:
1) obvious in the public conscience,
2) not speaking to what he hopes LeBron's thought process is.
Cuban's fine wasn't 100K because he said his team, and every other team, wants LeBron. The gravamen of Cuban's fine is that he told the media something that he could only convey to LeBron in negotiations, specifically the preference of using a sign and trade and not leaving Cleveland high and dry.
If Cuban had restricted his response to "Sure, we want Lebron. We will do whatever we can to entice a sign and trade," his fine would have been substantially less. The same reason everyone is pegging this as such a "smart" decision by Cuban, despite the fine, is exactly why the fine is worth so much more.
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RT @TyLawson3 Good game between Dallas and Portland. Good thing we didn't end up getting Dallas. Coach Karl lost his mind.
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