Kidd is the Defacto DAL GM

[mvossman]

Kidd is the defacto DAL GM.

This is by far the most disturbing revelation of this past offseason and early season.

1) Kidd refuses Dragic a spot and instead wants Campazzo (Dragic then shines in CHI while DAL clearly could use someone to help Luka get some rest from ballhandling/creation).

2) Kidd wants McGee and promises him a starting role (McGee then absolutely sucks).

3) Nico trades for Wood, then Kidd refuses to start him and refuses to play him in clutch minutes and refuses to give him starter level minutes while purposely trashing him in post game comments (Wood meanwhile plays REALLY well but then stops getting the ball in recent games).

4) It is reported all of this was done autonomously by Nico and Kidd and that Cuban was not involved or entangled with it.

• I like Nico listening to his coach as you need to do this as a GM. 
  
• I love Cuban staying out of things. 
  
• But I HATE Kidd as the defacto GM and talent evaluator. This team is going to go nowhere quick if Nico doesn't figure out a way to get Kidd in his place. But I am not sure how that is going to happen.
  

I am calling it now: I do not think this has a happy ending for us Mavs fans.

I feel like Kidd had influence on the Brown signing, the Dragic non signing, and the McGee signing.  Those all look like (or were) bad decisions, but we are talking about a min contract, a 3 mil/year contract, and a 5 mil/year contract.  By far the biggest GM decisions were Wood and letting Brunson walk, and I don't think he was a significant factor in either.

Way too early to talk conspiracy theories regarding Wood.  Didn't Nico say that both have to prove it to each other?  Seems like we are in that stage right now.  Roster decisions never move fast enough for fans, but Kidd has always been methodical regarding this.  It will take some time.  Way too early to come to these kind of conclusions.