A lot of people have a problem with the Cowboys signing Greg Hardy. Mark Cuban isn’t one of them.
The owner of the NBA team also located in Dallas said that while he didn’t think the Cowboys handled their signing of the Pro Bowl defensive end correctly, he thinks it's unfair to not give Hardy a second chance.
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“I think they handled it wrong publicly ... (but) you can't just throw people away," Cuban told the Dallas Morning News . “What are you going to say about Greg Hardy? You can’t ever get a job?"
Hardy spent the majority of last season on the commissioner's exempt list after being found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in Charlotte last summer. He asked for a bench trial, but the charges were dropped when his accuser, Nicole Holder, failed to show up in court last month.
The Cowboys signed Hardy to a one-year deal earlier this week.
“If a guy is an alcoholic, we’ll work with him," Cuban said. "If he’s a drug-addict, we’ll work with him. If a guy is in a hit-and-run accident, we’ll work with him. If a guy has domestic abuse (problems), some people want to throw him away. And you can’t throw your mistakes to the curb. At some point, somebody’s got to take responsibility for him.
“The question is, is he working with a counselor? Is he going through support programs? Is there somebody there, if he’s got a significant other, if they’re working with them? And making sure he really is rehabbing himself.”