Cuban already admitted that he dropped the ball big-time by committing to the idea that Phoenix could only offer Nash so much because they wished to hold some money back to throw at a second player. (So, so laughable in retrospect--or, for many us, at the time. How ironic that Cuban thought he was going to get one over on a team that was trying to have its cake and eat it too, by doing exactly the same.)
There is no other word besides "lowball" to describe Cuban's piss-poor negotiating tactics with Nash--unless, that is, you want to include words or phrases like "disloyal," "naive," and "out of your realm." If you want to sum it up as "insulting," you probably won't find much argument.
The truth, of course, is that is was far more down to idiocy than it was to insult.
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