{"id":260162,"date":"2026-05-30T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/jason-kidd-punished-entire-bucks-team-over-one-player-not-using-an-iphone-an-example-of-the-team-not-being-united\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:20:24","slug":"jason-kidd-punished-entire-bucks-team-over-one-player-not-using-an-iphone-an-example-of-the-team-not-being-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/jason-kidd-punished-entire-bucks-team-over-one-player-not-using-an-iphone-an-example-of-the-team-not-being-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd punished entire Bucks team over one player not using an iPhone: “An example of the team not being united”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Kidd punished entire Bucks team over one player not using an iPhone: “An example of the team not being united”<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/jason-kidd-punished-entire-bucks-162700803.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-30 15:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: sports.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

When Jason Kidd coached the Milwaukee Bucks, he had a rule: if one player made a mistake during practice, he punished the whole team by making them do sprints while the erring player watched.<\/p>\n

However, in the book \u201cGiannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP,\u201d Mirin Fade wrote that Kidd took that rule to another level, punishing the team in practice after center Thon Maker messed up their Apple iMessage Group by using an Android phone while chatting.<\/p>\n

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“At one point center Thon Maker didn’t have an iPhone, messing up the team’s blue-bubble iPhone group chat,” the book excerpt read, via Business Insider. “Kidd was upset about it and made the team run because Kidd felt that Maker not getting an iPhone was an example of the team not being united.”<\/p>\n

Kidd didn’t want to see green in the group chat<\/h2>\n

After his first season as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, where he went 44\u201338, the Milwaukee Bucks traded two second-round picks to Brooklyn to hire Kidd as their head coach, a move that also led to the firing of Larry Drew.<\/p>\n

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His time in Milwaukee is often cited as an example of how strongly he emphasized unity, even extending to how players communicated with one another.<\/p>\n

A \u201cblue bubble\u201d group chat is an iMessage conversation in which all participants use iPhones. In these chats, messages appear in blue bubbles and features like read receipts and typing indicators are enabled because the conversation is fully within Apple\u2019s system.<\/p>\n

If even one participant uses a non-Apple device, the chat turns green, indicating SMS\/MMS messaging instead, which lacks those advanced features.<\/p>\n

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According to the book, Kidd believed team unity was affected by this, feeling that the group wasn\u2019t fully connected until rookie Thon Maker got an iPhone (or another Apple device) and joined the team\u2019s iMessage group chat.<\/p>\n

Related: “I live in a 30,000 sq ft house by myself. You don’t think I know I messed up?” – Shaquille O’Neal on accountability for family…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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