Before we begin, a big, fat, juicy disclaimer: all public comments made by NBA coaches (or any professional sports coach, for that matter), should be taken with a grain of salt. What a coach says in a public interview isn’t set in stone and even at times counter to what is going on behind the scenes. Having said that, what Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said during a recent radio interview was fairly encouraging.
The Dallas coach spoke with Marc Stein on local radio station 97.1 The Freak for Stein’s weekly Saturday program this weekend. During the discussion, Kidd made some pretty interesting comments about the Mavericks two first round rookies: center Dereck Lively and forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper.