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Mavs owner Mark Cuban on Donald Trump: 'It's rare that you see someone get stupider before your eyes'

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The NBA season is over, and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban would like you to know what he thinks of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In an interview with Extra, Cuban said, "It's rare that you see someone get stupider before your eyes, but he's really working at it...You have to give him credit. It's a difficult thing to do, but he's accomplished it."

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Cuban challenged Extra interviewer Renee Bargh to come up with one good deal Trump had made. She couldn't.

"When he talks about his great renegotiations, they're renegotiations, so tell me if you think this is a good deal: I lose four casinos, they go out of business, but I'm really good at renegotiating the debt of his companies that have already gone out of business," Cuban told Extra.

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"He'd get kicked out of Shark Tank so fast, it would make your head spin," Cuban said, referring to his ABC show.

Trump and Cuban haven't spoken in a month, since soon after Cuban started "picking on him," to his own admission.

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"What happened was I really didn't like Ted Cruz, so I started helping Donald, tried to encourage him, 'cause I thought he'd be, and to this day thought he'd be a better candidate than Ted Cruz," Cuban told Extra. "But at some point, you've got to start learning and understanding the issues, you know? Donald has been at this a year but you don't look at him and say, 'Wow, he's gotten so much smarter on this topic or that topic.' In fact, you look at him and say, 'What the hell are you talking about?' That's not good for America."

Also on Tuesday, Cuban said on Twitter that if Trump were indeed even "fractionally" as rich as he claims, he would write a $200 million check to his own campaign.

Cuban followed up that tweet by retweeting a series of things he said about Trump's campaign earlier this month, including the idea that Trump will "have to grovel for that cash and will."

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Trump's actual wealth has been a topic of debate recently. Forbes puts Trump's wealth at $4.5 billion. Trump's own financial disclosures have put it at $10 billion.

This isn't the first time Cuban has hit on Trump's wealth claims.

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Earlier this month, Cuban told Fusion that Trump had, "at most, $165 million in liquid assets," as of May 27.

Cuban, whose own worth is valued somewhere in the neighborhood of $3.2 billion, argued that Trump's self-financed campaign is likely "blowing through that money" and will need to start fundraising.

Last year, near the start of Trump's candidacy, Cuban posted to his CyberDust app and called Trump a 'Paper Tiger' whose net worth is a 'play number.'

Cuban has also called Trump's run a "Seinfeld campaign" that is "a campaign about nothing."

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But all that talk hasn't stopped him from theorizing about a vice presidential run under Trump, or Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for that matter.