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Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd has emerged as a possible candidate to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin.
Reporting on SportsCenter on Friday night, McMenamin mentioned Kidd as a name he has heard tied to the Lakers along with Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue and former player J.J. Reddick.
“Guys that they’re thinking about and pondering have ties to LeBron James,” McMenamin said. “Three of the names I’ve been told in the last six or seven hours: Tyronn Lue of the Los Angeles Clippers, Jason Kidd of the Mavericks and J.J. Reddick of ESPN and Mind the Game podcast.”
The Lakers fired Darvin Ham on Friday after Los Angeles fell short in the first round of the playoffs against the Denver Nuggets. In Ham’s two seasons, the Lakers had to fight their way into the playoffs through the play-in tournament.
Last year, they managed to reach the Western Conference Finals where they also lost to Denver. This time, Los Angeles met the reigning champs in the first round and had no answers as it dropped the series in five games.
Now, Los Angeles is looking for its next head coach, and the candidate could be the current coach of a playoff team.
The Mavericks advanced past the Clippers in six games in the first round and will now face the Oklahoma City Thunder. In Kidd’s three seasons at the helm in Dallas, he has reached the playoffs twice—missing last year—and took the team to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2011 two seasons ago.
Whether Kidd would be willing to step away from a solid gig with the Mavericks to potentially lead LeBron James will be the question if the Lakers decide to pursue him.
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Former Dallas Mavericks Coach Wins First NBA Playoffs Series Since 2011 NBA Finals
Rick Carlisle finally broke a long losing streak in the Playoffs as his Indiana Pacers upset the Milwaukee Bucks in 6 games
It’s been 13 years since the Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 NBA Finals. For some, it feels like yesterday. For former head coach Rick Carlisle, it probably felt like an eternity, as he just won his first NBA Playoffs series as a head coach since those Finals.
Now the head coach for the 6-seeded Indiana Pacers, Carlisle guided his young squad to a first-round upset against the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks in six games, capped off by a 120-98 win in Indiana Thursday night. The Bucks were playing without superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, while Damian Lillard tried to play through a sore Achilles tendon.
Rick Carlisle wins his first playoff series since the 2011 NBA Finals 👏 pic.twitter.com/UTunzYtR7q
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) May 3, 2024
Carlisle and the Mavericks went their separate ways after the 2021 Playoffs, a series the Mavericks lost in 7 games to the Los Angeles Clippers. The pairing had made the Playoffs six times following the 2011 NBA Finals, losing in the first round every time, most infamously pushing the eventual 2014 NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs to 7 games, the longest series the Spurs would have that postseason.
The first postseason following the departure of Carlisle ended in a Western Conference Finals run for the Mavericks, as his former point guard Jason Kidd guided Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson to a win over the Utah Jazz in the first round, a second-round upset of the top-seeded Phoenix Suns, before losing to the Golden State Warriors in the West Finals.
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Carlisle landed with the Pacers after he departed from Dallas, the team he was coaching before being hired by Mark Cuban and the Mavericks in 2008. It’s taken a few years for the Pacers to rebuild, but the trades for Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam in recent years, plus one of the highest paces of play and offensive rating in the league have the Pacers set to play the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
The Mavericks will look to advance to the Western Conference Semifinals Friday in Game 6 against the Clippers, which will be at 8:30 p.m. CST from American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
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