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Separated at birth? Mark Cuban and Dinos Trigonis

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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OK, so he hasn’t drawn any six-figure fines from the NBA or considered purchasing the Chicago Cubs.

But club coach extraordinaire Dinos Trigonis has a similar tell-it-like-it-is way about him that reminds me a lot of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. And he looks more than a bit like the billionaire and former Broadcast.com mogul.

Trigonis says he occasionally hears that he bears a resemblance to Cuban. That might come in handy if Trigonis shows up in need of a last-minute reservation at Spago or wants to jump the line to get into a trendy Las Vegas nightclub. Just saying.

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-- Ben Bolch

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Left photo: Dinos Trigonis. Credit: Courtesy of Nick Koza. Right photo: Mark Cuban. Credit: Marc Serota / Reuters

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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