{"id":575073,"date":"2026-02-01T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:32:14","slug":"jason-kidd-goes-on-expletive-filled-rant-after-111-107-loss-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575073\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd goes on expletive-filled rant after 111-107 loss to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 111-107 loss to the Houston Rockets<\/a>, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd went and fulfilled his media obligations in quite an unusual fashion. Kidd, who as we well know, is not typically one to give you much in a press conference setting. Well, Saturday night\u2019s postgame presser was much different than any old postgame presser.<\/p>\n

For that, it\u2019s time to open up the quote board for the second time in a week!<\/p>\n

I saw a foul. Sean [Wright], Simone [Jelks] and Jason [Goldberg] (the three officials for the game) were awful tonight. It\u2019s unacceptable. It\u2019s a foul and he needs to be at the free throw line. Does he make both? That\u2019s up to the player.<\/p>\n

Well, Jason Kidd decided today was the day he is going to open up the checkbook and make one payable to Adam Silver, because this one will likely cost him $25,000. I get it, it\u2019s been a frustrating year and the Mavs have lost a ton of close games. But in fairness to the officials, Cooper didn\u2019t get a ton of contact on that drive. I\u2019d be willing to bet he says the same thing, and would probably like to have that one back. But hey, that\u2019s life in the league as a rookie. You live and learn.<\/p>\n

Criticism? That\u2019s your opinion. You guys write that [well written article]. I\u2019ve done this, I\u2019ve played this game. I\u2019ve played it at a very high level, and I know what the [rhymes with firetruck] I\u2019m doing. I don\u2019t give a [fudge] about what you guys write, because you guys have never played the game. I build players, so I know what the [wow, another one!] I\u2019m doing. So, if I take criticism, it only makes me better. Because if I wasn\u2019t doing it right, you guys wouldn\u2019t be poking holes in what I\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ll allow, I\u2019d like to offer my honest reaction to this set of answers from Jason Kidd.<\/p>\n

Because Kidd quite literally never gives anything of substance in pressers, this whole thing just feels like a bit. It screams like he came in pissed off, and was looking for a way to defend himself for his team going 32-50 in the 82 regular season games that have passed since the Luka Doncic trade one year ago (Los Angeles, by the way, is 51-31 in the same time with the 2022-23 Mavericks surrounding Luka). And, in case you forgot, who was sitting up there in Cleveland on Feb. 2, saying that he and Nico Harrison were \u201caligned\u201d in the vision? Oh yeah, that\u2019d be the head coach of the Mavericks, Jason Kidd. Well Jason, I guess this is a bit more than you bargained for?<\/p>\n

Oh, and another thing. The complaints about the point Flagg experiment all came because Jason Kidd, head coach of the Mavericks, simply had Cooper Flagg bring the ball up, hand it off to someone, and then sit his happy self in the corner while you tried to force feed Anthony Davis. Those same lineups that Kidd ran in the early season games actually work now because Flagg is able to actually run offense with the ball in his hands. Funny how that works!<\/p>\n

So spare me the routine when you, Jason Kidd<\/p>\n

However, since none of us here played in the NBA, I probably just made it all up, I don\u2019t even understand what good basketball is. So, I offer my congratulations to Jason Kidd, who is now winning at a 47.5% clip in his career without Luka Doncic on his roster. Maybe he\u2019ll parlay all of that knowledge and wisdom into being the GM one day. Frankly, I just fear it\u2019s going to be for this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 111-107 loss to the Houston Rockets, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd went and fulfilled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,1320,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-575073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-mavericks-news","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115995393675173741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}