Jason Kidd will be paying for his words.<\/p>\n
The NBA fined the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> head coach $35,000 for profanity and criticism of officiating during a post-game press conference, it announced<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n Kidd went off in front of media on Saturday after his team’s fourth straight loss as he fielded questions over his use of No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg as a point guard.<\/p>\n “Criticism? That’s your opinion,” Kidd said. “You guys write that bull—-. I’ve done this. I’ve played the game.<\/p>\n “I played it at a very high level. I know what the f— I’m doing. I don’t give a f— what you guys write because you guys have never played the game. I build players, so I know what the f— I’m doing. To take criticism, it only makes me better. Because if I wasn’t doing it right, you guys wouldn’t be poking holes in what I’ve done.”<\/p>\n Kidd also called out officials for what he viewed as a missed foul on Flagg in the final minute when a basket could have tied the game in the eventual 111-107 defeat to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw a foul,\u201d Kidd said. \u201c(Officials) Sean (Wright), Simone (Jelks) and Jason (Goldenberg) were awful tonight. The referees were unacceptable. It\u2019s a foul, and he needs to be at the free-throw line. Now, does he make both? That\u2019s up to the player, but the referees did not do their job. They were terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd will be paying for his words. The NBA fined the Dallas Mavericks head coach $35,000 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-449644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}