{"id":231631,"date":"2026-04-02T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:22:16","slug":"jason-kidd-fired-by-dallas-mavericks-or-april-fools-day-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231631\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd fired by Dallas Mavericks or April Fools Day prank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1, 2026, 9:42 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Dallas Mavericks are having a rough year, to say the least. As of publishing this, they&#8217;re 24-52 and continue to see the Luka Doncic trade backfire so very very badly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But: Did the franchise actually fire head coach Jason Kidd on Wednesday, as one viral tweet claimed on the same day that some people wondered if <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/04\/01\/carmelo-anthony-lakers-retired-announcement\/89417426007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmelo Anthony was coming out of retirement<\/a> to rejoin the Los Angeles Lakers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The answer is: Look at your calendar. It&#8217;s April 1. Seems like @Mavs_FFL with its 181,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) pulled an April Fools Day joke. As you&#8217;ll see from the replies, some folks got got.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As you were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1, 2026, 9:42 a.m. ET The Dallas Mavericks are having a rough year, to say the least.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,102,104,103,6317,6318,6326,70497,179,217,46,9025,36],"class_list":["post-231631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-accessfree","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sstssportsnba","tag-sstsnnba","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcarmelo-anthony","tag-tagexclude-social-autopilot","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}