{"id":577132,"date":"2026-02-02T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/577132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:03:21","slug":"mavericks-jason-kidd-gives-expletive-laden-reaction-to-cooper-flagg-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/577132\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks’ Jason Kidd gives expletive-laden reaction to Cooper Flagg question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> may have lost their last four games, but it’s clear they drafted a superstar in No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Duke product scored 34 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the 111-107 loss to the Houston Rockets<\/a>, and delivered a 49-point explosion on 20 of 29 shooting in the 123-121 loss Thursday to the Charlotte Hornets<\/a>. It marked the most points scored by a teenager in NBA<\/a> history, and Flagg’s second 40-point game. LeBron James<\/a> and Anthony Edwards<\/a> are the only other teens to drop 40 points in multiple NBA games.<\/p>\n

It took Flagg some time to get rolling at the next level, and part of that was because he was called upon to be a primary ball-handler. Following Dallas’ loss to Houston, a reporter asked coach Jason Kidd about the criticism he took for that decision, and he went off on an epic rant<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t give a f— about the criticism. Criticism? That’s your opinion. You guys write that bullshit,” Kidd said. “That’s not — I’ve done this. I’ve played this game. I’ve played it at a very high level. I know what the f— I’m doing.<\/p>\n

“But I don’t give a f— what you guys write. Because you guys have never played the game. And so I build players. So I know what the f— I’m doing. So to take criticism, it only makes me better. Because if I wasn’t doing it right you guys wouldn’t be poking holes in what I’ve done.”<\/p>\n

In Flagg’s first seven games at point guard, he averaged 13.6 points per contest, 6.3 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.1 turnovers while shooting 38.8% from the field. If one zooms out and examines his rookie season at large, Flagg averages 19.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game while shooting 48.4% from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a lot of pressure and a lot of responsibility that comes with being a point guard, and I don’t know if I was ready for that or if I was ready to handle that right off the bat,” Flagg said in November, per ESPN<\/a>. “I tried my best, and I mean, that’s not to say I can’t go back to it and can’t work on it and get better, but I think it’s just worked out where it’s been better to have somebody else helping out, relieving pressure. … It wasn’t perfect, but I think I learned a lot through that.”<\/p>\n

Flagg will look to stay hot and get the Mavs back into the win column on Tuesday against the\u00a0Boston Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks may have lost their last four games, but it’s clear they drafted a superstar in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,225,78019,30795,686,149,70309,4057,78020,166,78021,6,12,2550,1783],"class_list":{"0":"post-577132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cooper-flagg","10":"tag-cooper-flagg-news","11":"tag-cooper-flagg-stats","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-dallas-mavericks-updates","15":"tag-dallasmavericks","16":"tag-jason-kidd-quotes","17":"tag-mavericks","18":"tag-mavericks-losing-streak","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-draft","21":"tag-nba-standings","22":"tag-nba-trade-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116000706166306885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577132","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=577132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}