Owner Mark Cuban spent some time on 105.3-FM Tuesday and clarified a couple of points that he's made in the past.

He said he wasn't opposed to the idea of tanking, but it's not necessarily something the Mavericks are trying to do.

"We're tanking while we're trying to win," he said, emphasizing that playing all of the younger players on the roster is a built-in mechanism to ensure a certain amount of losses, but also playing those young players with Dirk Nowitzki and Wesley Matthews to give them chances to win and learn how to win.

Cuban also said again that he doesn't see marquee free agents changing teams as much as they have in the past.

"I don't see us going after the big fish because they can make too much money staying with their incumbent teams," he said, referring to the new collective bargaining agreement.

Twitter: @ESefko