Dallas Mavericks

“And it set me off with a lot of those guys and probably cost me a championship in 2006.”

“When I bought the Mavs, everybody like, are you an idiot? It was the highest price ever paid for a sports team. Two hundred eighty-five million dollars, and everybody thought I was a moron.”

“I had one situation where somebody actually told their whole team, don't respond to her. Don't do anything she's asking to be done because she won't be here in 90 days.”

“When the George Floyd thing happened, some of our African American men said, somebody call sent. We need to talk like today. And so we talked for three hours that Friday night. And then that Monday, my leadership team called turned into a whole conversation ar…”

“I think the hardest part is to try to institutionalize a new culture while you're purging the old culture.”

“I had one-on-ones with every single employee in the organization.”

“I put together a 100 day plan. And it was a 100 day plan that had four main pieces to it. The first piece was to model zero tolerance, complete an investigation and to really let people know that we have zero tolerance. For sexism, for racism, for sexual haras…”

“And so now we have almost 50% women in leadership and 47% people of color.”

“We had eight home games that we missed at the end of the season because we shut down. And so we had to, fortunately for us, most of our fans Didn't ask for a refund. Most of them said either carry it on, give me a credit into next season, and let's see what ha…”

“Oh, I was definitely supported by Mark. I mean, he wanted to see some changes. He did give me free reign to make the leadership changes that needed to be made. Some people didn't think that was going to happen. And he said, no, do what you need to do.”

“We've had some season ticket holders who have called and asked for a refund because of our stand on some issues”

“And then on February 21st, 2018, I started getting all these text messages. And actually, I thought it was one of my kids. I have four kids, so I thought it was one of my kids looking for money. So I handed my husband the phone and said, one of the kids need m…”

“And I will tell you, after having over a 120 of those sessions, I fell in love with the folks at the Mavs.”