Mark Cuban tells his team that it would be best to lose for the rest of the 2017-18 season

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said that he had a meeting with some members of the team and told them that the best for the franchise is to keep losing to have better chance at the upcoming NBA draft.

Per ESPN, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban calls tanking "brutal" but acknowledged that he told his team that it would be best to lose for the rest of the 2017-18 season.

"I'm probably not supposed to say this, but, like, I just had dinner with a bunch of our guys the other night, and here we are, you know, we weren't competing for the playoffs. I was like, 'Look, losing is our best option,'" Cuban said on the podcast. "Adam [Silver] would hate hearing that, but I at least sat down and I explained it to them. And I explained what our plans were going to be this summer, that we're not going to tank again. This was, like, a year-and-a-half tanking, and that was too brutal for me. But being transparent, I think that's the key to being kind of a players owner and having stability."