Even the biggest nut finds a squirrel every once in a while

Being a supporter of Mavs owner Mark Cuban is like dating a really hot crazy chick. You put up with a lot of dumb bullshit and whining, but the winning is amazing.

One day he's suing Don Nelson for knowing his team.

The next he's playing the "I-told-you-so" card after Tim Donaghy, a NBA ref was charged with being cohoots with the mob and participating in point shaving.

One day I think Cuban's insane. The next he looks like an astute business man who knows a bad product when he sees it. As crazy as we think he is, he was right on this one -- the machine is broken and it needs to be fixed. Donaghy could be the only NBA ref in history to do such a thing, but even one dirty ref is far too many especially in a sport where the referees, umpires or judges can award points with one call.

And I've never understood the very real double standard the NBA refs have for stars. How can Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade and others get away with anything and themselves garner bullshit calls, while any other player couldn't? How is this scenario even remotely fair or good for the product?

Considering he's been known to blog about his colon, I thought Cuban was very tactful is addressing Donaghy's situation in regards to the NBA. Granted, he wanted to throw it in the face of commish David Stern, which he does, but he states that maybe we can start realizing that just because it's a good product doesn't mean it can't be a better product. The only media member I have known to be very openly critical of NBA officiating, ESPN's Bill Simmons, is also on board with changes. Both Cuban and Simmons -- no matter how out of touch I sometimes think they are -- are right.

Whether or not the NBA catches any other refs in the point-shaving scheme, that cloud will hang over the league for years and the best way to handle the PR side of it all is to make drastic changes. Mark Cuban-esque changes. But does Stern really have the guts to kowtow to his sworn arch-nemesis and admit that the system is flawed? Does he ever?