MAVS hire Masai Ujiri as new team President

[KillerLeft]

Kidd’s contract and money owed will not be a barrier or even a factor in the decision IMO. Dumont can’t say that Masai has full control and then come back with, wellll I don’t want to pay a new coach and one that’s not here at the same time. It comes down to a combination of three things: What Flagg thinks, if Kidd wants to be here, and if Masai wants to bring in his own guy or not. That’s it.

Agreed about the timing of everything. I'd say the recent extension will be less of a barrier now, when the franchise is changing hands and Dumont is focused on giving Ujiri every resource needed, than it might be in a similar hypothetical situation even two years down the road. Still, it would probably be easier (should Kidd and/or the Mavs want to part ways) if another franchise had designs on hiring him and Kidd wanted to go there. In that sense, it's a shame all of this didn't happen last summer. 

I keep seeing folks suggest things along the lines of "if Flagg wants Kidd to be here, you keep him." I agree to a point, but I think that's short-sighted. A 19-yo is probably not the best judge of what's best for the franchise or even for himself, frankly, AND, I think that's the kind of thinking that got us to the place where Luka became an undisciplined problem in some key areas. I don't believe that Flagg would respond to change like a primadonna (not yet, at least) and I think the Mavs, during Luka's early seasons, might've trained him to become "difficult." Obviously, staying on the same page with your franchise player is important, but I think "give him whatever he wants" is and always will be a dead-end approach employed by mid-tier franchises, at least in a general sense. 

None of this to suggest one course of action over another, and I'm hopeful that managing a guy like Flagg while steering the franchise effectively is a specific area in which Ujiri is likely to excel...just saying.