Rodman to Cuban: Stay out of the dressing room

(Dallas-AP) -- It looks like Dennis Rodman's honeymoon with Mark Cubna and the Dallas Mavericks owner is over. The outspoken Dallas forward spoke out after the fading Mavericks lost 101-to-86 on the

Wednesday, March 8th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(Dallas-AP) -- It looks like Dennis Rodman's honeymoon with Mark Cubna and the Dallas Mavericks owner is over. The outspoken Dallas forward spoke out after the fading Mavericks lost 101-to-86 on the road to the Seattle SuperSonics last night.

He told The Dallas Morning News that Cuban, the Mavericks owner-in-waiting, that he's hanging around the team dressing room too much. In Rodman's words -- "That's like Jerry Jones, and it's dumb."

Jones is the Dallas Cowboys owner who's got a reputation for spending a lot of time on the team's sidelines and in the locker room. Rodman added that -- in his words -- "That's why the Cowboys went down."

As for the Mavericks -- who dropped their fifth straight game --he says -- quote -- "We're like that movie 'Lost in Space.' We have no sense of direction." And of the Mavericks defensive woes, he said -- quote --"Nobody wants to pay the price. No one wants to play both ends of the court."