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Head coach Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks looks on during the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 30, 2026 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\nThe Mavericks are moving on from Jason Kidd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team announced on Tuesday that it \u201cmutually agreed\u2019 to part ways with Kidd after he\u2019s led the team for five seasons. <\/p>\n
Kidd still has four years and more than $40 million left on his contract, ESPN reported. It was clear that new president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri wanted to take the organization in a different direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we evaluate the future of our basketball program, we believe this is the right moment for a new direction for our team,\u201d Ujiri said in a statement. \u201cWe have high expectations for this franchise and a responsibility to build a basketball organization capable of sustained championship contention. We will conduct a thorough, disciplined search for our next head coach and continue to evaluate our entire basketball operations staff to ensure we compete at the standard Mavs fans expect and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head coach Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks looks on during the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on March 30, 2026 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Kidd was named Mavericks head coach in 2021 and led Dallas to a number of postseason appearances, including a trip to the NBA Finals in 2024 and the Western Conference finals in 2022. <\/p>\n
He went 205-205 during his five-year run with the Mavs, but his record was severely impacted by the presence \u2014 and later lack thereof \u2014 of star Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n
The Kidd-led Mavericks were 136-87 when Doncic was in the lineup and 69-118 when he wasn\u2019t, including the 26-56 record \u2014 even with Rookie of the Year winner Cooper Flagg<\/a> \u2014 Dallas had during the 2025-26 season, the first full campaign following the controversial Doncic trade in Feb. 2025.\u00a0The architect of that trade<\/a>, Nico Harrison, was fired in November.<\/p>\n Kidd\u2019s future with the Mavericks seemed up in the air after Ujiri took over his post earlier this month and was non-committal about keeping him on during an introductory press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s done a great job, but we are going to look at this thing from head to toe,\u201d Ujiri said. \u201cThat\u2019s the right way to look at an organization and evaluate in every single way we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mavericks are moving on from Jason Kidd.\u00a0 The team announced on Tuesday that it \u201cmutually agreed\u2019 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,2582,103,4280,3080,154],"class_list":["post-301020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-jason-kidd","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}