06-29-2021, 11:17 AM
(06-29-2021, 10:57 AM)fifteenth Wrote: "-why this franchise hasn't earned trust to make a hire like Jason Kidd"
I think the success of Tim's first article (on which I think he did a great job) is encouraging him go a bit overboard. The above statement doesn't make any sense.
Agreed. People are acting as if the Mavs organization is a single entity that should be forever condemned for the sexual harassment scandal 2 years ago.
They say because of that history Kidd should automatically be disqualified from the Mavs HC position. I remember locked on Mavs podcast saying something to the like of "Kidd might have grown or changed, but the Mavs shouldn't have been the first team to give him a 2nd chance because the Mavs aren't qualified to make that choice", a statement strikingly similar to Cato's above.
It makes absolutely no sense to me. The people that committed the crimes have been fired from the organization for years and aren't making the choice to hire Kidd. People are condemning Cuban as if HE was apart of the scandal himself and committed sexual assault as well, which has never happened. He was a clueless bystander that was found at no fault by the NBA and the 3rd party investigation that was conducted. There is something to be said about Cuban's blindspots if he never noticed what was going on in his organization, but that's not nearly the same sin as domestic abuse/sexual harassment.
People love being on soap boxes nowadays and want to give righteous judgement no matter the logic behind it.
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