Mavs should keep Kidd past this year

It isn’t a pro sports team in Dallas without a little controversy.

But I don’t want to bore you with a diatribe on Josh Howard’s ignorance.

He was just being ghetto.

The more intriguing aspect to the Maveriks' upcoming season is what they are going to do about Jason Kidd. They haven’t committed to paying him beyond this season.

They were bounced in the first round of the playoffs last year, but that didn’t have as much to do with him as it did with the emergence of the New Orleans Hornets and the fact that players and the front office had grown tired of Avery Johnson, and he of them.

They didn’t even practice before their final playoff game. A saving grace for the only coach to take Dallas to the NBA Finals was that former coach Don Nelson also had problems with Mavs owner Mark Cuban. Makes you wonder how it's going to end with Carlisle in Dallas. Carlisle has won everywhere he’s been. He started Detriot on their turnaround and he won over 60 games one season with the Indiana Pacers.

But during those years, he was portrayed as a man that was a bit cold, a hard-nosed general that didn’t give orders politely.

Some people would have a problem with that — ghetto people like Josh Howard.

A coach is only as good as his relationship with the superstars and Howard is a superstar for the Mavericks.

So is Dirk Nowitski.

So is Jason Kidd.

The Mavericks need to stick with Kidd, for better or worse. Who else would they be able to get to play point guard?

Any team that has a good one isn’t going to get rid of him. A wise move would be for the Mavericks to keep Kidd around in order to give them time to develop another point guard. What better coach for a young point guard could there be than Jason Kidd, an all-star, Olympian and future Hall of Famer.

They want to talk in Dallas about how Kidd wasn’t aggressive enough offensively last year, like that would be grounds for a divorce. Well, anybody who lends even a casual eye to the NBA knows that you don’t play Kidd for his offensive talent. You play him for his ability to get the ball to people who know how to shoot.

There are few players that the Mavericks could trade Kidd for and it would actually be an upgrade to the team. They probably should have never brought him to Dallas again in the first place, but now that they have, it would be stupid to cut him loose for a point that might not have as much promise as Devin Harris did.