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Mavs’ Jason Kidd Among Most ‘Positively Received’ NBA Head Coaches

Social media research from Betway suggests that Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd is viewed favorably compared to the rest of the coaches in the NBA.

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Despite the Dallas Mavericks losing several assistant coaches this offseason, that apparently isn’t a bad reflection on how head coach Jason Kidd is viewed by the public … at least when it comes to Twitter mentions.

According to Betway, Kidd is among the most “positively received” head coaches in the NBA based on a table that ranked the positive sentiment score of tweets mentioning him in the past 12 months. Kidd was sixth in the league with a yearly positive online sentiment score of 21.8 percent. Former Mavs and current Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle was No. 1 with a 30.9-percent positive sentiment score.

Twitter certainly isn’t the only way to gauge whether coaches are liked or not, but it’s still a decent way to check the temperature. Although the Mavs failed to make the Play-In Tournament this year, Kidd leading Dallas to the Western Conference Finals during the 2021-22 season has apparently given him more margin for error in the eyes of not only the fan base, but the front office as well.

If Kidd isn’t able to turn things around for the Mavs next season — especially if they successfully re-sign Kyrie Irving and add better defensive pieces around he and Luka Doncic — then perhaps his seat will be a little warmer by January. Until then, though, Kidd is getting the benefit of the doubt.

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DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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