According to Ian Begley of SNY, Jason Kidd could still leave the Dallas Mavericks for the New York Knicks.
The Knicks were denied permission to speak with Kidd, but the door “is not completely closed” on Kidd going from Dallas to New York, per Begley.
Kidd has a coaching record of 362-339 in the regular season and 31-33 in the playoffs with the Brooklyn Nets, Milwaukee Bucks and Mavericks. He played for the Knicks for one season in 2012-13 and was a superstar with the New Jersey Nets for multiple years.
A Hall of Famer, Kidd has two years left on his contract. If he doesn’t get an extension from the Mavericks, he theoretically could leave for the Knicks, who would have to trade draft picks to the Mavericks to get the NBA legend.
The Mavericks have the first overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. They are expected to draft Duke’s Cooper Flagg.
“I do not think he is looking to leave Dallas,” Marc Stein of The Stein Line said on the DLLS Mavs podcast. “He is very settled here. His family is very settled here. And he is very close with the two superstars (Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving) who are in place.”
New York needs a new head coach after firing Tom Thibodeau. The franchise has been denied permission to speak with Kidd, Atlanta Hawks coach Quin Snyder, Houston Rockets coach Ime Udoka, Minnesota Timberwolves coach Chris Finch and Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan.
The Knicks fired Thibodeau despite reaching the conference finals this year for the first time since 2000. The Indiana Pacers beat New York in six games.
Thibodeau, who has coached the Bulls and Timberwolves, was hired by the Knicks in 2020. He went 226-174 in the regular season and 24-23 in the postseason and won the 2021 Coach of the Year Award.
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