DALLAS -- When Mark Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks in January 2000, he didn't have a timetable for turning around a franchise that went 239-549 (a pitiful .303 winning percentage) during the '90s.
"You can't plan that, you just don't know," Cuban said as he worked out on a Stairmaster before Wednesday night's Nets-Mavericks game.
Cuban, however, knows when things could turn around for the Nets and their brethren across the Hudson River, the Knicks: in a New York minute. Actually, he gives it a little more than a month.
"I said this to Kiki and Rod both," Cuban said about Nets coach and GM Kiki Vandeweghe and team president Rod Thorn, "there's about a month, five weeks left in the regular season. In five weeks, them and the Knicks become the darlings of the NBA. They're all anybody's going to be talking about in regard to free agency.
"They're gonna go from being zeroes to heroes. The guys in the locker room who will stick around over there, they'll be talking about them as they're key components in the next generation Nets.
"Five weeks. They're going to be everybody's darlings."
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