2020-2021 MAVS NEWS: Archived

[michaeltex]

Trying out, below, a couple of opinions that I’m not sure of. Feel free to beat me up for them if you like.

1. What’s a rehabilitated criminal supposed to do? Domestic abuse or otherwise, once you’ve served your time, don’t you get to be reintroduced into society? And doesn’t that mean returning to the world of the employed? Is it ok to hire Jason Kidd to a low-level construction job but not to a coaching position? Because coaches are role models? Like the great Bobby Knight? Woody Hayes? Cheatin’ Bill Belicek? Because head coaches have more opportunities to commit further domestic violence than regular folk? Should Kidd be banned from marrying too—or even shacking up?

2. Isn’t “branding” just a bit overdone these days? I mean, I support our troops and all. But I don’t cheer for the Mavs because they support our troops, and it insults my intelligence a little that they seem to think my allegiance can be bought that way. Or by their cool billboards. Or their support for local charities. I support them cause they’re my local team, just like I cheer for the local high school and my country’s olympians. So now the media is “branding” them as misogynists (an argument the Mavs, admittedly, have provided ammunition for). Do I now have to start caring about the brand?

Hey, even Bill Cosby got out of jail...