
Do you know how you have a good, healthy franchise overall? When the owner never jumps in on the basketball Ops unless completely necessary. It’s why the Philadelphia 76ers are trash, it’s why the Sacramento Kings are dysfunctional and on the other side it’s why the San Antonio Spurs are consistently great.
The Milwaukee Bucks have been underwhelming this season. Most of us thought that they were going to be in the mix for the top Playoff spots, but they’re really not, they’re pretty stagnant. Jason Kidd attempted to shake it up with a trade deadline move, but in came Bucks ownership to veto the move.
At last week’s trade deadline, Kidd tried to engineer a massive deal with New Orleans that Milwaukee ownership ultimately rejected, league sources tell me.
That wouldn’t have happened a year ago. But the fact that it did now speaks to the growing division within Milwaukee’s ownership group on Kidd.
At the least, there’s an increasing reluctance to grant Kidd player-personnel power — never mind his hopes of moving out of coaching and into the role of Milwaukee’s top basketball executive.
I mean if Jason Kidd is the coach and only the coach then he shouldn’t be engineering trades. That’s definitely understandable on the owners side. If you want a trade, tell the front office and maybe they’ll let you help engineering it. Don’t just go rogue and do trades behind the owners back.