The majority of the NBA world continues to slam Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks owners for deciding to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for a lackluster return. While there is the occasional person who says the Mavericks came out on top, those people are few and far between.

The Luka Doncic trade was so unexpected and controversial that a certain segment of frustrated fans have refused to accept any basketball-centric motivations for the deal. Instead, those fans have looked for conspiracies that might explain the out-of-left-field deal between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers.

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.