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2639767, Hard to summon tears for dude
Posted by Cocobrotha2, Wed Jan-24-18 04:37 PM
>And has been mostly remarkable in his coaching career for his
>strange, if innovative and hilarious, late game tactics. So
>he's famous for things besides his unselfishness and
>brilliance.

My lingering impression of him over the years is of him being a bit of an asshole but I had to refresh myself on his track record.

http://www.espn.com/blog/new-york/brooklyn-nets/post/_/id/19596/history-of-jason-kidds-past-incidents

not saying he's singularly the worst person in the NBA or even, objectively, THAT bad (other than the alleged wife beating). But with all the little power plays he's participated in over his career, this whole situation reads more like karma than racism.


>And lots of great, brilliant players made for shit coaches.
>Magic and Larry seem like the obvious ones here, but all great
>passers always worry me as far as coaching goes because they
>just see shit that can't always be taught.
>
>Full disclosure: I haven't watched enough Bucks basketball
>over the last two years to really judge Kidd as a coach. I
>just also know a lot of other people in here haven't either.