[Ed. Note - This is actually 100%, although I (CF) fully endorse this being written under my name. Paxson, will you please hire Avery Johnson. Now!]

Quite a day today, as this is my second coach-getting-fired post. I'm hoping there won't be a third or fourth, but you never know. I assume George Karl could get canned at any instant, but then there's absolutely no reason to defend him.

So this hour's coach to get the axe is the handsomely toothed Avery Johnson. I admittedly don't have anywhere near the same affection for the Mavericks as the Suns, but they're still great fun to wax poetic on. And that's because of Mark Cuban and his asinine decisions in running the team.

Much like the Suns' D'Antoni, Avery is taking the fall for a move that had nothing to do with him. I'm of course referring to the Kidd deal; in the Suns' case the Shaq deal.

And the truth is, Cuban undoubtedly had a large hand in the Kidd deal. He always does in any Mavs decisions. Unlike other owners, he likes to meddle. And that's almost always a bad thing.

In all honesty, the Mavs' move to bring Kidd in made even less sense than the Shaq trade. Phoenix isn't an incredibly young team, Marion wasn't happy anyway, and once the Suns gel next year they might be quite good.

But the Mavs, they basically mortgaged their future on the 35-year old Kidd, and needless to say, it was a disaster as Chris Paul utterly annihilated Kidd in the playoffs.

The simple fact is that Avery Johnson is a good coach. I won't say great because I think he ran the Mavericks into the ground last year in the regular season, which is why my Warriors beat them. And the Mavs should have won the NBA Championship the year before, even with Dwyane Wade getting every call in existence. But Avery's a solid coach. He won't be unemployed long.

This firing is just Cuban asserting his authority again, rather than showing any kind of rational restraint. I'm still amazed this guy is a billionaire. He seems to pull stunts like this - and appear on lame shows like Dancing With The Stars - just so we don't forget who he is.

The real question is what the heck will Cuban will do next? Will he blow up the team? Will he trade Dirk? Will he self-combust?

Honestly, I think anything is possible, and the reason why is that in the ESPN article which broke the Avery firing by Marc Stein, Stein points out that Cuban was considering firing Johnson before the playoffs started. I wouldn't doubt it. If anyone would do something that ridiculous, it's Cuban.

All I know is that after getting waxed by the Warriors last year and watching the Kidd trade kill this season, I think Cuban is literally capable of anything. And that won't benefit Dallas in my mind at all.

Source: (sports.espn.go.com)