Shanked (Why Jason Kidd & the Bucks showed boyz why they'll NEVER win in the NBA)

"Y'all really gone do this bruh?"

Steve Jobs once said, “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” John Quincy Adams broke it down like this, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are leader.” Then Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese poet and philosopher, shut the buildin’ down with, “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say; we did it ourselves.”

Well playboy… you can throw all of that out of the window for the Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry because every dun in America knows he exists now. After the foolishness that is Jason Kidd stepped to the Russian and got told where he could go, as I explained a few days ago in the Hot Joint entitled "Kickin' Rocks." His homeboy/former Nets minority owner/his personal financial advisor/new co-owner of the Bucks hired him as their new head coach on Monday.

Here’s the problem pimpin’, they already had a coach in Larry Drew! So Jason Kidd tried to pull a power move on the Nets and when he couldn’t get what he wanted he used his friendship to take another duns job. The Bucks agreed to give the Nets two second round draft picks in 2015 and 2019 in exchange for this cat.

Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I’ve been tryin’ to tell you boyz for years that players don’t win championships organizations do. There’s a reason why more than fifty percent of all NBA titles have been won by two organizations, the Celtics have 17 and the Lakers have 16. Why? Because they’ve been better run front offices than the rest for a longer period of time.

There’s a reason why San Antonio is bangin’ bruh! The average fan can’t even name the owner or the GM because leadership stays out of the way. Nelson Mandela tried to tell you cats that when he said, “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”

It’s the front office that creates an environment that makes it suitable to win championships playa. They buy the groceries so that the chef can cook. They create a positive work place so that the best players would want to play there. Now how positive is the work environment in Milwaukee this mornin’ bruh after management comes in and fires a boy and hires their boy?

That’s why the freakin’ Milwaukee Bucks are still the Milwaukee Bucks playboy. Big Momma used to always say, “It ain’t always what you do. It’s how you do it.” What kind of standard did Marc Lasry set when he ran into the joint and pulled the table cloth out from underneath Larry Drew’s dinner with his family? Real talk! Now everybody in the buildin’ is on pins and needles. And guess what they’re lookin’ for jobs this mornin’ instead of doin’ their jobs! Boyz are gonna be loyal to themselves first!

If the head coach can get pushed out of the ride on the overpass then everybody else can get ran over too. In one decision Lasry destroyed the confidence of an entire organization. Bump the team! Do you think that the GM is comfortable this mornin’ after bein’ told to hire a dun that essentially wants his job too? And oh yeah… you’ve got a young team that just saw all of this play out in front of them. Jabari Parker just flew in after the draft to meet his head coach that sold him on the future of the Milwaukee Bucks that isn’t there anymore because the owner tripped on him to hire his boy. And by the way his boy is foul. I’m just sayin’!

Do you really think that any veteran free agent with half of a brain would even consider goin’ to Milwaukee now? Not that they would have considered it in the first place but they darn sure aren’t goin’ up there now. And that’s the edited version playboy!

It’s not like they fired a boy for a Phil Jackson or Gregg Popovich! It’s not like the Broncos tellin’ Tim Tebow that is was a wrap for him because they were bringin’ in Peyton freakin’ Manning. These duns destroyed the work environment for Jason Kidd bruh! Maybe you don’t know Jason Kidd like I know Jason Kidd so let me introduce you to him.

He’s the same cat that instigated a freakin’ mutiny his freshman year at Cal that got his head coach, Lou Campanelli, fired. He’s the same dun that created a beef with Jimmy Jackson in Dallas to force a trade to Phoenix. In 2001 he was arrested for firin’ on his now ex-wife. In 2004 he helped run Byron Scott out of New Jersey after actin’ a complete fool on him in December of 2003 in the locker room. In 2007 this dun faked a migraine to miss a game against the Knicks and then asked boyz to let him go and was traded back to Dallas.

In 2012 he gave the Mavs a verbal commitment to re-sign only to bounce to New York. Only weeks after signin’ with the Knicks he got popped for drunk drivin’ and after finally pleadin’ guilty to it he started his coachin’ career with the Nets with a two game suspension from the league as a result of it. Then this past season this dun told one of his freakin’ players, Tyshawn Taylor, to bump into him to spill his pop on the floor because they were out of timeouts. Wheredeydodatat?

This is the clown that you completely destroyed company morale for bruh! Are you serious? They would have been better off gettin’ Jack the Ripper to come up in that piece. At least boyz would know what to expect. This dun is comin’ at you from every angle. You don’t know what he might do! So now everybody in the buildin’ has their heads on a swivel because they don’t know whether Lasry is gonna shank ‘em or Jason Kidd! One this is for sure and two is for certain, you can't win with boyz tryin' not to get stabbed in the shower. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Kickin' Rocks (Why Jason Kidd stepped to the wrong Russian and got told)

"Oh so it's like that now huh?"

Les Brown, the famous motivational speaker, once said, “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” Vince Lombardi said it this way, “Winning is not everything but wanting to win is.” Then Bernard Meltzer, the famous radio host, leaned back in his chair and hit boyz hard with, “Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”

Well it looks like old dull Jason Kidd tried to pull a power move on the Brooklyn Nets to gain more control within the organization and boyz weren’t havin’ it. Therefore, they’ve given the Milwaukee Bucks permission to holler at that dun. According to a confirmed New York Post report ole boy stepped to ownership about havin’ personnel control in addition to coachin’ and they were like “You can kick rocks on that bruh.” 

Can you imagine Prokhorov chillin' in his office talkin' to some hot chick and Jason Kidd walks in and interrupts him like ole boy did Big Red in the Five Heartbeats. "Hey dawg I need more control!" Prok: "Hold on a second bruh I'm busy." Kidd: "Hey man I need to talk to you about my royalties and your books!" Prok: "My office hours are between 9 and 5!" Kidd: "Screw yo office hours I wanna talk now!" Prok: 

"You want more control of what playboy?"

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Ole boy just saw Derrick Fisher and Steve Kerr, both new coaches, sign five year $25 million deals. Keep in mind that he just finished the first year of a four year deal worth $10.5 million. So in his competitive brain he’s under paid. Like I keep tellin’ you boyz out here, “YOU’RE ALWAYS WORTH WHAT A BOY IS WILLIN’ TO PAY YOU!”

However, if he’s not willin’ to pay you he’s gonna tell you to kick rocks because what you won’t take another dun is always willin' to take. It was completely unreasonable for both Kerr and Fisher to get $25 million relatively speakin' in the first place but boyz dumped it out anyway. That’s life and you can’t hate on them gettin’ it. Everybody’s situation is different babyboy. However, if you start runnin’ around comparin’ your check to the next cats check you’re gonna find yourself in trouble bruh. That's why they never discuss bread on the job.

Fortunately for Kidd, the Bucks wanted to holler at him because co-owner Marc Lasry is tight with him. Not only was he a former minority owner of the Nets but he was Kidd’s financial advisor. Now it doesn’t look like he’ll be coachin’ the Bucks because they’ve got a coach already. It should be interestin’ to see how it all shakes out though.

Let me give all of my duns out there the disclaimer on some real talk though. You can only step to ownership, managers, supervisors, the boss man or whatever you call them and pull a “Kidd” if you already got bread. Because you gotta be prepared for a boy to tell you to kick rocks. Jason Kidd has more bread than he can count so it really wasn’t about the bread for him, it was about his ego pimpin’! He wasn’t gonna be shown up by some duns that just walked into a job especially Derrick Fisher in New York and watch him get $15 million more. In his mind that was disrespectful.

Now the crazy thing is that other coaches in the league are lookin’ at Jason Kidd and feelin’ the same way because they’ve been puttin’ in crazy work too and still there's no surprise in the Cracker Jack Box for them either. Most cats had to pay their dues for years on the sidelines as video coordinators and assistants etc. Think about duns like Brian Shaw, for example, that waited for years to get the nod. Patrick Ewing is still waitin’. Then you’ve got cats like George Karl and Lionel Hollins that are veteran coaches that can’t even get a sniff and a dun pulls off his uniform one day, puts on a suit the next and gets the keys to the Bentley whether it’s for $10.5 or $25 million and you’re trippin’on wantin' more control bruh?

It’s nuts and you got the nerve step to a boy after one freakin’ year of coachin’? That’s asinine! But once again, he’s got the leverage to do it because he’s got bread and his boy in Milwaukee is gonna make the landin’ soft for him. Life ain’t fair playboy so you gotta get in where you fit in. Don’t worry about Jason Kidd because he’s gonna be alright. But don't try this at home!

It might even be a blessin’ in disguise for the Nets because with Kidd kickin’ rocks they may be able to move on from some of the agin’ veterans that were considerin’ stickin’ around because of their boy. Paul Pierce was lookin’ to re-sign and KG, who turned into Old Otis durin’ the Eastern Conference semi-finals against the Heat, has given indications that he would play his final year in Brooklyn.

If nothin’ else they wouldn’t be upset if KG turned in his thick & thins and thong toe sandals he was wearin’ durin’ the playoffs and took off the suspenders and belt he was rockin’ at the same time when the Heat made him look like Uncle Leroy down at the car wash out there. KG needs to sit his butt down somewhere and hopefully with Kidd bein’ greedy has helped him make that decision. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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Pocket Farts (The REAL reason Jason Kidd is making a complete fool of himself)

"La La La La La La! I can't hear you! La La La La!"

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “People only see what they are prepared to see.” Ed Bradley, the famous journalist best known for his work on 60 Minutes, gave it to us like this, “Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.” Then Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and microbiologist, shut the building down with, “Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

Well somebody should have told ole dull Jason Kidd that before he jumped head first into the Brooklyn Nets head coaching position. Now this time last year he was still playing for the Knicks. Now he’s making a complete fool of himself trying to coach all of his boys. The Nets are 7-14 at this point and getting worse by the minute because this dun is pulling capers by the day.

We all saw the foolishness of the cup spill a couple of weeks ago. Then he cursed out and benched Lawrence Frank, the one cat that he brought in to lean on because he knows more about coaching the freakin’ game than he does. How does a boy curse the dun out and tell him not to come to practice anymore that has forgotten more about coaching than Kidd even knows? I’ll tell you how playboy. Because he let his ego climb out of his pocket and fart on his shirt!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Not only did he not have an ounce of head coaching experience. He didn’t have an ounce of coaching experience at all, at any level. Here goes my roof top screamer throwing his two cents in, “Man what you are talking about bruh? Mark Jackson didn’t have any head coaching experience when he took over at Golden State! You just be talkin’!”

Listen you freakin’ idiot! You’re exactly right! He didn’t have any head coaching experience. However, he didn’t pull off his jock on Monday and start coaching on Wednesday. He retired in 2004 and worked as an analyst until 2011 bruh. He was able to see the game from an entirely different perspective and gain a better understanding of it before diving in. Not only that, he’s old enough to be the guys he’s coaching dad and he acts like it.

Now Kidd is 40 but he’s still one of the fellas. He’s the dad that’s still rockin’ the flat bib, the new jersey and the retro 1018’s to match. He’s the dad that’s still standing in line waiting for the new sneakers and the PlayStation to come out. He’s the dad that’s smoking weed with his teenage son and his buddies. He’s the quote unquote cool dad that all of the kids love and all of the other dads are laughing at.

On some real talk, he was just kickin’ it with all of the duns that he’s coaching right now. He was just on a road trip with most of these cats or cats just like them this time last year. They’re still talking about the episodes and foolishness that they’ve been involved in or those that they are still involved in bruh. He's the freakin' substitute teacher for crying out load.

Think about the cup spilling incident. No way would an experienced coach with the proper relationship with his players ask a boy to bump into him to make a mess to stop the game. That was some old Three Stooges type foolishness. Based on the simple fact that he’s one of the fellas he could ask a boy to do that. They all laughed about it in the locker room until the Bat phone rang and the commissioner was like, “Listen here playboy, Ima need 50 stacks for that ignorance out there tonight.”

There has to be a definitive line of separation between coach and player just like father and son. It's like when father and son both smoke weed. As long as they don't smoke together the line is still drawn. However, the day that they start smoking together they become boyz. That's Jason Kidd right now bruh.

You know all of the other coaches are laughing at him because he tried to short change the system of paying dues first. He took an old school cut in the line and now he’s getting a rotten apple instead of candy for Halloween. Think about all of the boyz that had to put in work as an assistant first for years before they got a job like Brian Shaw and a host of others. Patrick Ewing and duns like Nick Van Exel are still waiting in line! Yeah boyz are enjoying the foolishness that is Jason Kidd right now, believe that.

I thought that it was smart of him to hire Lawrence Frank to come alongside of him because he knew nothing about what he was getting himself into. Then the one cat that is trying to keep him from taking the propofol gets cursed out and reassigned to filing reports. Are you kidding me? It’s bananas to say the least! Just because you played the game of basketball doesn’t mean that you can coach it. Coaching at the NBA level has more to do with managing people and egos than X’s and O’s bruh. That’s why Phil Jackson was the best that ever did it. He managed egos and allowed his staff to “help” him coach.

Jason Kidd is letting the pocket fart coach for him and it’s killin’ him! That dun won’t last two years playa. Stop me when I start lyin’!

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