Asked Friday to clarify what that meant, Kidd said, “I was called (by) Nico (into) the room, and he told me that there was a trade that was going to go public at 11 o’clock. That’s what happened. That’s the details of the conversation. I waited until 11 o’clock, and that trade, the world changed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7169852/2026/04/03/jason-kidd-mark-cuban-luka-doncic-trade/

Do you believe Jason Kidd? Or Mark Cuban?

basketball_content | Spurs

160 | 6 hours ago

I have incredibly little faith in either of them

CIark

36 | 6 hours ago

I need nico to tweet from Cancun: yeah he knew all along

CIark

137 | 6 hours ago

Nico: there’s a trade that’s coming at 11

Kidd: ok what is it

Nico: can’t tell you it’s a secret

fuzzythinker | Nuggets

17 | 5 hours ago

Kidd: Ok, why tell me now?
Nico: So you’ll be ready at 11

Any-Question-3759

11 | 4 hours ago

Narrator: he was not ready at 11

ExpressionAlone5204 | Thunder

14 | 6 hours ago

Lmaoooo

flaming_burrito_ | Wizards

7 | 4 hours ago

Right, the fuck you mean you were waiting until 11? Trades aren’t some shit for a GM to be coy about, if I’m the head coach you better fucking tell me who you’re trading. I simply don’t believe this

iXeons

66 | 6 hours ago

Lmao, God. Nico turned this place into post-WW2 Germany with all the finger pointing

Luck-Silver

24 | 6 hours ago

Nuremberg trials for Luka.

pwnd32 | Lakers

25 | 6 hours ago

Jason “just following orders” Kidd

Few_Position_2727 | Lakers

9 | 6 hours ago

Can you imagine the kind of responses he’s getting when he applies for a new position? Lol I bet they give him an interview just to ask wtf he was thinking without seriously considering him

iXeons

7 | 5 hours ago

“So, we just drafted this guy 1st overa—“

“Is he fat?”

“…what?”

scooterln

37 | 5 hours ago

My tin foil hat is Cuban wants Jason Kidd fired so he dropped this little info right before Luka goes back to Dallas to bring out fire Jason Kidd chants.

That being said, Jason Kidd is being literal when he says he wasn’t part of the process. Meaning he didn’t have phone calls with Rob Pelinka working out the deal. But he knew it was going to happen.. he shared Nico’s “vision” lol

Kidd has been a snake in multiple franchises. No way he all the sudden is an innocent bystander when something shady went down

LemonButterRum

14 | 5 hours ago

yup, Kidd is trying to save face via clever semantics, when he’s probably the first one frustrated with Luka and his team

persephonepeete

3 | 4 hours ago

I don’t believe that. what vision?? the vision where his STAR player is traded to a better franchise to play with Lebron James??

no. he doesn’t have to be ‘innocent’ to be a bystander. he could have been cursing Luka out at 10:30pm and still been baffled that the trade Nico was talking about was Luka.

DaBusDriva2 | Lakers

30 | 6 hours ago

He just sat there and let Nico keep repeating “J Kidd is in agreement”

Initial-Distance-338 | Kings

20 | 5 hours ago

What is he supposed to do. Disagree with the GM? Coach Dave Joerger did that and got fired.

BrotherSeamus | Thunder

3 | 4 hours ago

Could have twitched uncomfortably whenever Nico said Kidd was involved. Or at least given him the side-eye.

Or gone full POW and started blinking FUCK NICO in Morse code.

persephonepeete

3 | 4 hours ago

I keep saying he was sat up there looking like a damn hostage. his face was unlike anything I’ve seen before. not quite rage. not quite agreement. slightly perplexed.

RedtheGamer100 | Hornets

1 | 5 hours ago

Yes cuz nba coaches are never rehired 😂😂😂

Odd_Bate | Knicks

11 | 5 hours ago

Bro thinks JKidd wants to be jobless

persephonepeete

2 | 4 hours ago

…as opposed to what?

Nico -“Head Coach and I are in total agreement.”

Kidd -“Nico cut that shit out man you know I didn’t say that shit when you told me. Matter of fact I SAID…”

Front Office-“Thank you ladies and gentlemen, members of the press this meeting is over”

mollifierDE | Mavericks

19 | 6 hours ago

Do you believe Jason Kidd? Or Mark Cuban?

Cuban himself said that he was informed via phone by Nico Harrison when the trade had already been agreed upon. In other words, he wasn’t part of any discussion or decision-making. So how would Cuban know that Kidd was involved?

RedditFan3510 | Mavericks

-6 | 6 hours ago

Because he talked to other people with the Mavericks? He still owns the team.

Why didn’t Kidd deny it in the first place? It took him 72 hours?

Jaerba | DET

7 | 5 hours ago

Cuban is both a firefighter and an arsonist.

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

3 | 6 hours ago

Why didn’t Kidd deny it in the first place? It took him 72 hours?

Are you for real? Did you even read the article you linked?

RedditFan3510 | Mavericks

-9 | 6 hours ago

Did YOU?!?! It’s obvious Luka believes Kidd was responsible too. Ig guess KL2 knows more than Luka and Mark Cuban!

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

7 | 5 hours ago

In response, Kidd denied his involvement and said the Mavericks must look forward as they build around rookie forward Cooper Flagg.

Asked Friday to clarify what that meant, Kidd said, “I was called (by) Nico (into) the room, and he told me that there was a trade that was going to go public at 11 o’clock. That’s what happened.

So the article says he “denied his involvement” and then later added more info when he was “asked Friday to clarify what that meant.”

Seriously, did you even read it?

RedditFan3510 | Mavericks

-6 | 5 hours ago

That doesn’t mean he didn’t know they were thinking about trading Luka you idiot.

Do you believe in Santa Claus too???

VictorAkwaowo1 | Mavericks

14 | 6 hours ago

I AM SOO FUCKING TIRED OF THIS SHIT

jcdc11

8 | 6 hours ago

“Unfortunately” lmao

l33txxXXxx

6 | 6 hours ago

Kidd be lying his ass off. He probably crazy enough to urge it behind closed doors.

WoodersonHurricane

6 | 5 hours ago

Let’s also never forget that Jason Kidd beat his wife.

nurikxix | Spurs

3 | 3 hours ago

Well yeah. We’ve known J Kidd is a piece of shit; we’re litigating if he participated in the ritual sacrifice of the Mavericks

dae5oty

4 | 6 hours ago

He asked his wife to hit him to miss the Lakers trade call

Mr_Hugh_Honey

5 | 5 hours ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if Kidd knew about it on at least some level, but to be fair to him, Nico very proudly told everyone that he kept as many people in the dark about it as he could, so he really might not have known anything about it until it was too late

ExpressionAlone5204 | Thunder

3 | 6 hours ago

Dammit Kidd you’re going to make me TRUST Mark Cuban

1GeorgeMarcus2MJ8LBJ | Rockets

3 | 6 hours ago

J Kidd is a liar. Josh from locked on fantasy basketball podcast called this shit over a year ago

AgentChris

2 | 4 hours ago

I still don’t know why they traded Luka

ImpressionCertain736

1 | 5 hours ago

Both players in the trade are injured so who really won

FizzyLightEx

1 | 4 hours ago

I always felt like Nico was a fall guy. It felt like the narrative was socially engineered for him to take all the blame even though he doesn’t have the control to unilaterally do any big decisions like trading a superstar in a covert operation without getting the green light.

rocket_beer | Celtics

1 | 2 hours ago

This was 100% orchestrated and approved by the league

The league needs the Lakers to have superstars

Bournerounderz | Spurs

1 | 2 hours ago

He’d rather admit to commiting war crimes than trading Luka away.

persephonepeete

0 | 4 hours ago

I just don’t understand why ya’ll believe a head coach can override a gm. Nico didn’t like Luka. Nico traded him.

The only way Pelinka and Nico could keep that a secret is if NO one knew about it. How fast is that getting leaked to the press by someone in the mavs org to enrage the public and bully Nico into not doing it? Kidd may have leaked it his damn self.

LeBron did not know…why would he. AD did not know. Luka did not know. Kidd knew a trade was coming…what head coach would have allowed that to happen if they had a say?

JamToEarDelivery

0 | 2 hours ago

“the world changed”. man barely anything changed in the world. what else ya got, chin?

Jason Kidd denies trading Luka: Unfortunately, as I have said, I was not part of the process…. I waited until 11 o’clock, and that trade, the world changed”