It took less than one game for the critics to be proven exactly right about just how badly the Dallas Mavericks screwed up their trade of superstar point guard

This year’s trade deadline might be the most eventful in NBA history. Many teams are sensing that the Larry O’Brien trophy is ripe for the taking, and to that end, teams such as the Golden State Warriors and Dallas Mavericks pulled off bombshell moves that they believe will be for the best.

In a conversation with Bill Gates at the Eisemann Center in Richardson on Friday night, Cuban was blunt in his first public response about the trade that sent the international superstar he drafted to Los Angeles. "I've had a rough week," Cuban told Gates to begin the event per Sarah Hepola of The Dallas Morning News.