Mavs locker room blogger-free these days, except for Cuban

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DALLAS (AP)—Mark Cuban is the only blogger allowed in the Dallas Mavericks locker room.

At Cuban’s direction, the Mavericks have created the first blogger-free policy in the NBA, perhaps in all of pro sports. As a blogger himself, he believes people writing for blogs don’t need behind-the-scenes access to do their jobs, even if those blogs are run by newspapers.

The policy was put in place after Cuban decided to keep out a reporter for The Dallas Morning News whose primary job is writing for the newspaper’s sports blogs.

Cuban said his point is that if he allows one blogger in, then out of fairness he would have to allow all of them, even if it’s just a suburban teenager who runs a fan site. Instead, he said it’s better to keep them all out.

“My choice, my decision,” Cuban said, adding that he hasn’t discussed it with the league office. “We brought it to their attention after the fact. I think they recognized, look, it wasn’t a blogging issue, it was a space issue. If you run out of space, you’ve got to put the velvet rope somewhere. So what do you do? Do I say, `Oh, you’re major media, you can get in and little mavsforum and mavstalk and mavswiki, you can’t get in?’ I’m not going to do that.”

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