{"id":575866,"date":"2026-02-01T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575866\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:32:19","slug":"jason-kidd-rips-media-officials-after-saturdays-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575866\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd Rips Media, Officials After Saturday’s Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Saturday\u2019s loss at Houston, Dallas\u2019 fourth straight defeat, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd went on an expletive-filled tirade regarding media criticism of Kidd using Cooper Flagg<\/a> as team\u2019s de facto point guard to open his rookie season, writes Christian Clark of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI don\u2019t give a f\u2014 about the criticism,\u201d Kidd said. \u201cThe criticism, that\u2019s your opinion. You guys write that bulls\u2014. I\u2019ve done this. I\u2019ve played this game. I\u2019ve played it at a very high level, and I know what the f\u2014 I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Clark observes, the Mavs went 2-5 and had the worst offensive rating in the league in the first seven games of the season before Kidd moved Flagg off the ball. But the Mavericks have once again been playing without a traditional point guard of late and the No. 1 overall pick has thrived the past two games, putting up 49 points and 10 rebounds on Thursday and finishing with 34 points, 12 rebounds and five assists on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t give a f\u2014 what you guys write,\u201d Kidd said. \u201cBecause you guys have never played the game before. I have built players. I know what the f\u2014 I\u2019m doing. To take criticism, it only makes me better. Because if I wasn\u2019t doing it right, you guys wouldn\u2019t be poking holes at what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN<\/a>, Kidd also ripped the officiating crew following Saturday\u2019s loss. He was particularly upset about a play with 25 seconds remaining, when Flagg drove down the lane and missed a left-handed layup that would have tied the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a foul,\u201d Kidd said. \u201c[Officials] Sean [Wright], Simone [Jelks] and Jason [Goldenberg] were awful tonight. The referees were unacceptable. It\u2019s a foul, and he needs to be at the free throw line. Now, does he make both? That\u2019s up to the player, but the referees did not do their job. They were terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flagg set a record for a teenager when he scored 49 points and his 83 combined points are the most a teenager has scored over a two-game span in league history. The 19-year-old also became the first teenager to record consecutive 30-point double-doubles, per MacMahon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely felt some contact, but at the end of the day, the refs are the ones making the call, so it is what it is,\u201d said Flagg. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s tough. You just got to play through it. It\u2019s part of the game. It\u2019s not the first time in my life that I haven\u2019t got calls, and it\u2019s probably not going to be the last. So whatever it is, just got to keep playing through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, Dallas (15-of-26) attempted 11 more free throws than Houston (11-of-15), Clark notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Saturday\u2019s loss at Houston, Dallas\u2019 fourth straight defeat, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd went on an expletive-filled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,225,3716],"class_list":{"0":"post-575866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-jason-kidd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115997518026368885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575866","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=575866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}