Mavericks’ Jason Kidd insists ‘no mind games’ at play with Jaylen Brown praise
New York TimesDALLAS — When Jason Kidd called Jaylen Brown Boston’s best player twice on Saturday, the Dallas Mavericks coach did more than spark a potentially divisive Celtics debate that dominated the media conversation heading into Game 2 of the NBA Finals. And when the Celtics’ Jrue Holiday added more fuel to that fire a day later, saying on SiriusXM radio that he agreed with the assessment, one could only imagine how satisfied Kidd must have been with how he played these mind games. “It wasn’t mind games,” Kidd, whose Mavericks are down 2-0 heading into Game 3 on Wednesday, told The Athletic after practice Tuesday. Everybody was speculating, and no one really asked me that.” Only Kidd knows if he’d pass a lie detector test on this subject, but he made a valid point about his and Brown’s shared history that had been overlooked in the whole discussion.
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