2020-2021 MAVS NEWS: Archived

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On Kidd and whether the Mavs are doing the right thing in hiring him, I understand the idea that "he's learned" or "that was long ago."

But in light of the Mavs repeated issues that keep popping up, hiring a top manager whose track record is like Kidd's has to raise doubts about the Mavs response to such issues, and their sincerity. Didn't Cuban swear that he didn't know, but in the future he wouldn't let people who act like that work for him? Has such behavior really been made a disqualifier for a job with the Mavs? Or does that only apply to the underlings, but not the big shots (who, all along, have been the children with the loathsome behavior problems)?

Those are very legitimate questions. And while I'm sure they'll have pre-planned answers, talk is cheap. In light of the Mavs organizational history, this is a really bad look - and one that they don't seem to care about.

Not necessarily right at you, Gump, but just a jumping point.

For me, that was nearly 20 years ago, and he's remarried with no incidents of domestic violence since.  Honestly, I've got no problem with that.  It's a bigger risk than someone who doesnt' have that in his background, because if it were to happen again, it would be WAY worse, because of the history, but I think at some point, this nonsense cancel culture thing needs to stop.  People change, people grow and for me, Billups' stuff shouldn't even have been brought up.

This stuff from decades ago taht get selectively brought up because someone has a special interest in getting their stuff read is pathetic.  There is no one here that thinks either of those guys are beating their spouses right now...no one here would bet their house on it.

MY greater concern is Kidd's continued pattern of questionable ethics situations.  To me, that's worse, because that's has been done multiple times in multiple situations at multiple places from legal judgment to different situations in his career from the way he left the Mavs the first time as a player, to the way that he left the second time to Brooklyn to the Bucks to the DUI to whatever....that's a character pattern and THAT, more than a domestic violence situation from pretty much 2 decades ago, with no incidents since, is a bigger red flag to me.

To translate, if he had consistently had domestic violence allegations since 2003, that's would be a no...yet, he's consistently had these problems with integrity and stuff.