Mark Cuban didn't think he had to 'quarantine' DeAndre Jordan

DeAndre Jordan isn't a Maverick. Shocking, I know? 

Instead, after five days of being one in principle, he decided to head back to the Clippers and sign with the team he's played his whole career with as soon as the NBA's moratorium ended. Of course, the last day of the moratorium was one of the most entertaining in NBA free agency history.

In a recent ESPN feature, Ramona Shelburne and Tim MacMahon chronicled the process for Jordan and all the surrounding parties.

And Mark Cuban had some grievances to air: "Never in a million years did I think I had to quarantine the guy," Cuban said.

Cuban and Chandler Parsons pitched Jordan on how they could turn him into a star in Dallas, where he would no longer be eclipsed by Blake Griffin and Chris Paul. From Shelburne and MacMahon:

Click here to read the full article. It's fantastic.

(H/t ESPN.)

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