{"id":694864,"date":"2026-04-02T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:35:00","slug":"mark-cuban-jason-kidd-on-luka-doncic-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694864\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban & Jason Kidd On Luka Don\u010di\u0107 Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than a year after the Dallas Mavericks made the dramatic decision to trade<\/a> Luka Don\u010di\u0107, the ripple effects of that move continue to shape the conversation surrounding the team.<\/p>\n

Renewed attention followed comments from former majority owner Mark Cuban, who suggested that multiple people within the organization \u2013 including head coach Jason Kidd \u2013 may have played a crucial role in the decision to get rid of Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n

Speaking before a game this week at the American Airlines Center, Kidd made clear he is ready to move beyond any controversy connected to the trade. \u201cWhen are we going to move on?\u201d Kidd told<\/a> The Dallas Morning News. \u201cWe have to move forward. We\u2019re focused on the present and the future and we\u2019ve got an incredible opportunity to build.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 I think we have a great owner in Patrick, and he\u2019s going to give us every resource to build a championship team,\u201d Kidd added.<\/p>\n

Cuban\u2019s comments, made during a recent appearance on the \u201cIntersections\u201d podcast, offered a different perspective on the trade. He pointed to growing internal tensions between the front office and Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s personal team, as well as between key decision-makers and other players across the league. Cuban also referred to what he described as a \u201cconfirmation bias\u201d influencing the decision to go ahead with the trade at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was animosity between our former general manager and some people on Luka\u2019s team, his agent, some people that worked around them. I don\u2019t think they got along. I think there were issues that J-Kidd coached with Anthony Davis and was close to him, and Nico was close to AD,\u201d Cuban said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although Cuban stopped short of directly blaming anyone for losing Don\u010di\u0107, his comments suggested that the trade didn\u2019t stem from a single decision-maker but rather from a mix of internal factors. And maybe, one of those factors was the relationship between Kidd and Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n

Kidd declined to engage these claims, reiterating his respect for Cuban and shifting attention to current ownership under Patrick Dumont.<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly believe the Mavs fans have built before and will build again. And we want them to be a part of this build. And so the things that are going on between two owners are between the two owners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Since the trade, the Mavericks have faced challenges on and off the court. The team has struggled in the playoff chase, currently 13th in the Western Conference as of press time.<\/p>\n

The implications of the Don\u010di\u0107 trade continue to resonate despite positive developments such as Cooper Flagg\u2019s impressive rookie season. While discussions about this trade persist outside the locker room, Coach Kidd\u2019s message inside it remains clear: the team\u2019s future will not be determined by previous decisions or poor trades, but by the current rebuilding process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a year after the Dallas Mavericks made the dramatic decision to trade Luka Don\u010di\u0107, the ripple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,47753,686,149,87541,4057,87542,7650,44767,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-694864","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-rookie-season","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks-2026","13":"tag-dallasmavericks","14":"tag-jason-kidd-luka-trade","15":"tag-luka-doncic-trade","16":"tag-mark-cuban-mavericks","17":"tag-mavericks","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116337739382497060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694864","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=694864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}