KIDD FIRED - Hughes/Grgurich also fired - Vin Baker Hired

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[JEIS]

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After reading this, I totally did a 360° on my opinion of Kidd.

[Treebeard]

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After reading this, I totally did a 360° on my opinion of Kidd.

The cynic in me thinks the agent recommended this bit of damage control.

[VooDoo7]

Bite me, Kidd. You **** fraudulent piece of ****.

[KidA24]

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Awww. I think we should bring him back guys.

Also, who made that font on that background? Can't even read it.

[JEIS]

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After reading this, I totally did a 360° on my opinion of Kidd.

The cynic in me thinks the agent recommended this bit of damage control.

He is just being a Dick... trying to sabotage "continuity". Kidd saw first hand what kind of damage the Jabari letter did.

Probably why He and Jabari had a strained relationship.

(green)

[sidney lanier]

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After reading this, I totally did a 360° on my opinion of Kidd.

Awesome post.

[ZeppelinPage]

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Nobody gives a flying ****.

[randy84]

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Nobody gives a flying ****.

I find it funny that all the players call him Joe instead of Coach.

[HKPackFan]

In all my years of following sports I still probably know about as much as Jon snow, but sometimes there are moments that have common threads amongst all sports.

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1657781&start=320#p62249144

I didn't hear the interview, but when a GM starts going heavy into defending the coach, isn't that often the kiss if death?

[SKG]

He is a snake, not falling for that, he just realized you cant close doors on any team, you never know

[FlagsFlyForever]

I forgot Frank Johnson was on the staff.

Also going to be interesting if they need that roster spot in two weeks and have to cut Jason Terry.

They will need to cut somebody regardless in about three weeks when Plumlee's two-way expires and they have to decide if they want to cut Plumlee or keep him and cut somebody else. Terry is the obvious candidate.

[Diggr14]

Horst firing Kidd shows the guy has some balls. Still ecstatic that they made the move.

[MickeyDavis]

Milwaukee Bucks forward Jabari Parker is inching closer to his return from a torn left anterior cruciate ligament suffered last February. When he does return to the court, the coach who spent the most time with him this season during his recovery won’t be on the sideline to see it.

During a session with the media on Thursday at the team’s practice facility, Parker mentioned that Bucks assistant Frank Johnson had been let go, making him the third coach — along with Eric Hughes and Tim Grgurich — released in the wake of head coach Jason Kidd’s firing Monday.

“It was kind of really hard for me to accept,” Parker said, noting that he saw Johnson every day and looked forward to their time together. "Not having him by my side is really going to be hard for me.”

Kidd, who played four years with the Suns when Johnson was an assistant there, knew firsthand that Johnson had a knack for relating to younger players. That played a role in his decision to bring Johnson onto his staff for this season as he planned for the 59-year-old to work with Parker.

Johnson and Parker didn’t initially hit it off. Parker was apprehensive about placing his trust in someone he didn’t know and didn’t always respond well to Johnson’s coaching. He questioned why and how things were being done.

Over time, the barriers broke down, especially when Parker learned that Johnson could relate to his situation. During a two-year stretch during his own playing career, Johnson broke a foot four times.

After that initial period, the two have been nearly inseparable. Wherever Parker was Johnson wasn’t far away, whether that was during practices, shootarounds or on-court pre-game work.

When Johnson was on the road with the team and away from Parker, he had a knack for keeping things light and having fun with players. While they were preparing to leave shootarounds, he would often put up shots — trick and otherwise — with certainty he could make them, much to the delight of everyone watching from the sidelines. During a regular three-point shooting game some players participated in, he would razz whoever was in last place by waving his AAA card or dropping it on the floor in front of them and asking if they needed a tow to the next position.


While Johnson no longer has an official role with the team, Parker intends to keep their relationship going.

“I’m going to do the best I can to still keep him involved because he’s such a vital piece to my development," Parker said. "I emphasized that way before I was getting to that point. I kind of need him. But he’s in a good position mentally and I can keep calling him for help.”

[PG Graveyard]

I don’t understand why they fired Frank. Especially with Jabari still technically rehabbing.

[TroyD92]

I don’t understand why they fired Frank. Especially with Jabari still technically rehabbing.

He might have decided to leave with KIdd. We really don't know the circumstances of any of the coaches.

[fansinceforever]

Now we just have to make the right move(s) instead of correcting our mistakes.

Getting excited over correcting mistakes is very John Hammond Era.

[paulpressey25]

Just a reminder, Kidd's tweet was free. Monta's newspaper ad actually cost some dough that someone paid for, back in 2012 when print newspapers could actually charge for ads.

[AussieBuck]

Jason Kidd is once again not the Bucks coach. Been another good day.

[DavidDunn21]

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