Technology entrepreneur and NBA team owner Mark Cuban spent the weekend wondering how his star player, Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks, failed to win the All-Star Skills Competition. Cuban also spent time on Twitter explaining that the Mavericks online shop had received 20,000 Dogecoins for team merchandise, thus making him the busiest merchant receiving handling this digital currency.

Something else that Cuban included in his remarks was an interesting calculation. The Mavericks owner estimates that if he were to clear about six million worth of Dogecoin this year, the token would appreciate to an exchange price of $1, a value that many other competing cryptocurrencies have tried to achieve without success. The Mavericks are the only NBA team that accepts Dogecoin, which trades under the symbol DOGE, and it should be noted that that the $1,000 worth of sales completed with DOGE does not include arena tickets because the coronavirus pandemic has nixed attendance since last year.

The Dogecoin success story is rather interesting because it was never meant to be a serious cryptocurrency token. DOGE was inspired by a funny meme featuring a cute dog; the token was eventually welcomed by the Reddit community as its unofficial currency a few years ago, and the rest is history. Another interest fact about DOGE is that Cuban is not the only tech entrepreneur who has shown interest in the token. Tesla Motors CEO is another fan of the token, and he has boosted the value of DOGE by mentioning it in his Twitter updates.

Cuban has also explained that DOGE is a fun token that should be appreciated for its entertainment value and as an amusing way to learn how economic theory is evolving in the 21st century; in other words, he is still on the fence about how serious DOGE should be taken, but he will likely continue to accept it at the Dallas Mavericks online store. It is unclear whether he is still holding on to the DOGE tokens or if he has already exchanged them. The Mavericks shop also accepts other tokens such as Bitcoin and its competing fork, Bitcoin Cash.