{"id":691152,"date":"2026-04-01T03:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:51:20","slug":"dragged-into-another-mavericks-firestorm-jason-kidd-is-focusing-on-the-task-at-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691152\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragged into another Mavericks firestorm, Jason Kidd is focusing on the task at hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE \u2013 An\u00a0NBA game was to be played here in Fiserv Forum Tuesday night, but as Mavericks-Bucks tipoff neared, coach Jason Kidd found himself having to put out a brush fire 1,000 miles away in Dallas<\/a> about a trade that occurred 423 days ago.<\/p>\n

Not just any trade, Kidd realizes, but The Trade of Luka Doncic<\/a> from which the franchise largely has moved on \u2013 or had until former majority owner Mark Cuban seemingly brought gasoline and matches to a podcast interview<\/a> that was released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Mark Cuban says Mavericks’ coach Jason Kidd was part of decision to trade Luka Doncic<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen are we going to move on?\u201d Kidd he asked a Dallas Morning News reporter during a brief one-on-one interview about 90 minutes before tipoff on Tuesday. \u201cWe have to move forward. We’re focused on the present and the future and we’ve got an incredible opportunity to build.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kidd\u2019s initial rhetorical question could have been meant for Mavsland in general, but, clearly, it mostly was directed at Cuban, whom Kidd said he phoned Tuesday after the Intersections podcast\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

During the podcast, Cuban expressed regret for selling the franchise to the Miriam Adelson and Patrick Dumont families<\/a> in Dec. 2023 and criticized general manager Nico Harrison\u2019s Feb. 1, 2025 trade of Doncic. Then suddenly, briefly, he injected Kidd into the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t justify it for our coach and our general manager to stand up and trade our best player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuban offered no specifics or elaboration, but those three words, \u201cfor our coach,\u201d essentially hung Kidd out to dry.<\/p>\n

Kidd, on multiple occasions, has said he didn\u2019t learn of the trade until the 11th hour. During the following day\u2019s news conference, Kidd praised Doncic, but emphasized, \u201cWhen you look at the vision of the team and what Nico wants to build, I truly support that and truly believe the players we\u2019re getting are ones that can help us win a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, Kidd saw no point in rehashing the events leading to the trade and his role, if any.<\/p>\n

Mostly he spoke passionately about Mavericks fans, a bright future with rookie sensation Cooper Flagg<\/a> \u2013 and of seemingly being thrust into the middle of his former boss\u2019s spat with his current one, team governor Dumont.<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe the Mavs fans have built before and will build again,\u201d Kidd said. \u201cAnd we want them to be a part of this build.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the things that are going on between two owners is between the two owners. I think we have a great owner in Patrick and he’s going to give us every resource to build a championship team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of respect to Cuban, he helped me and my family. We won a championship together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two owners will figure it out. I truly believe that we have to focus on the present and the future. We’ve got a great opportunity.\u201d
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With that, Kidd turned his attention back to the evening\u2019s task at hand, his 24-51 Mavericks facing the 29-45 Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2013 An\u00a0NBA game was to be played here in Fiserv Forum Tuesday night, but as Mavericks-Bucks tipoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,2087,166,87203,87234],"class_list":{"0":"post-691152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-mark-cuban","10":"tag-mavericks","11":"tag-tp-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-tp-luka-doncic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116327421380202708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691152","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=691152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}