Kidd to take over the Bucks?

[benji]

Jason Kidd has been granted permission to speak with the Milwaukee Bucks after his request for additional roles within the Brooklyn Nets was denied, league sources confirmed to ESPN.com on Saturday night.

Sources close to the situation told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the teams already have begun discussing possible compensation to release Kidd from the final three years of his original four-year, $10.5 million contract.

News of Kidd being denied additional responsibilities by the Nets and subsequently being allowed to talk with the Bucks was first reported by the New York Post.

According to the Post, Kidd, who just completed his first year as coach of the Nets, recently approached team ownership with several requests, including overseeing the team's basketball operations department.

Nets officials, believing Kidd doesn't have enough experience for such a responsibility, a league source told the Post, granted him permission to speak with other teams.

The Bucks, who just completed their first season under coach Larry Drew, then contacted Brooklyn requesting permission to speak with Kidd about potentially hiring him, and were granted it, according to the Post.

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The team is under new ownership, with Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, two New York investment firm executives, buying it earlier this year for about $550 million. Lasry and Kidd have a longstanding personal and professional relationship.

[benji]

Source says Kidd upset with the financial packages Steve Kerr and Derek Fisher received as well as powers Doc Rivers was recently granted

One league source says Bucks' front office was not apprised of the plan for Kidd to be interviewed.

In pursuing exit to Milwaukee, source tells Yahoo of Jason Kidd's ambitions: "He wants the Doc and Pop role (there). Running everything."

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Wes Edens

Kidd got greedy, got burned. Wonder if he'll get fired

[benji]

Chris Mannix @ChrisMannixSI 1 minute ago
League-wide reax to Kidd/Nets mixed. Little surprise Kidd would try to end-run Billy King. Lot of surprise a team willing to let Kidd run it

[NovU]

Kidd to take over the Bucks? He just had unsuccessful first season as a coach. You'd be a fool to give him a bigger role whether or not for the shitty team. But then you're right, he's the best PG in history.

[SoF'nAwesome]

What do the Bucks have to lose? Worst case: they'll have a similar season to last year

[Sauru]

why would anyone want to hire him after pulling some shit like this?

[_Steve_]

Why not? He can teach that Parker kid how drinks are spilled at a NBA level...

[Andrew]

why would anyone want to hire him after pulling some shit like this?

I guess you might take the risk because he's a noteworthy name with a distinguished NBA career. His first season as a head coach wasn't stellar, but it might have been better if not for a couple of injuries, and he was the first rookie coach to win a Game 7. I understand why there'd be interest. I do agree though, he lacks an impressive coaching/front office resume and stuff like this doesn't exactly scream "trustworthy".

[[Q]]

But then you're right, he's the best PG in history.

Magic.

Stockton.

why would anyone want to hire him after pulling some shit like this?

True. Who's to say that he wouldn't try this again?*

[Lamrock]

Kidd was a great player (though suggesting he was the GOAT PG is ridiculous - even top 3 is stretch) but he's a fucking douchebag. The fact that he's a drunk driving woman-beater aside, I would not want someone that arrogant and unprofessional have anything to do with my team. Yes, he knows more than any of us ever will about basketball, but him in the front office just screams Isiah Thomas. I don't really care about the Bucks, but I hope for their sake they don't hire this guy.

[_Steve_]

Well at least he got guts. Doing a mediocre job in his first year as head coach and still asking for a promotion...
Who is most likely to succeed him? Sloan? Karl?

[NovU]

Kidd being the GOAT PG is a done discussion in NLSC community. You convenient bball fans have no say in this matter.


On more serious note, I agree with Lamrock pretty much. Kidd's become a diva.

[benji]

-Kidd's reassignment of Lawrence Frank was the first break between ownership and management on one side and Kidd on the other. Kidd while not directly involved in the negotiations that led to Frank's huge salary pressed for his hiring. It still stings not just because of the $1 million per year salary (and bonuses) but because of the embarrassment factor.

--One of the final straws for Nets ownership came when Kidd advocated for a trade with the Bucks that would sent Brook Lopez and Mirza Teletovic to Milwaukee for the deeply troubled Larry Sanders and Ersan Ilyasova. The suggestion, mostly about Kidd's belief that Lopez couldn't fit in his system, was considered and rejected by the Nets brass.

--Kidd was angered by the Nets decision to trade for Marcus Thornton rather than Jarrett Jack, who he believed would have been a better fit. Nets ownership believe that Kidd's ultimate ambition was to dump Billy King, with whom ownership remains quite satisfied. Kidd believes that King and Nets ownership do not have a long term plan and are too opportunistic.

[NovU]

LoL He was a rookie coach coming right off the player career. It wasn't his job to manage the team business, it was his job to coach whoever the players the team gets him. He's way over his head.

How is gaybakflip's view on this matter I'm curious?

[Andrew]

Kidd believes that King and Nets ownership do not have a long term plan and are too opportunistic.

He arguably has a point there, but his vision and front office acumen isn't that much better.

[Sauru]

why would anyone want to hire him after pulling some shit like this?

I guess you might take the risk because he's a noteworthy name with a distinguished NBA career. His first season as a head coach wasn't stellar, but it might have been better if not for a couple of injuries, and he was the first rookie coach to win a Game 7. I understand why there'd be interest. I do agree though, he lacks an impressive coaching/front office resume and stuff like this doesn't exactly scream "trustworthy".

they handed him a stacked team and he managed very sub par results. maybe the bucks want to tank another season and figure kidd is the right man for the job?

[Andrew]

No question, last season was below expectations for them, but the results probably would've been a little better if the team were healthier. Expectations might have also been a littler higher than they should have been, given the age of a couple of their players. It was a stacked team in terms of the names, but not so much in terms of their current production...especially when a couple of them were spending significant time in suits on the bench.

That said, I don't mean to suggest that Jason Kidd is a brilliant coach who was simply put in a bad position. I just understand why other teams might give him the benefit of the doubt and be lured by the fact that he's a "name" in the sport. If nothing else, teams seem to be trying to avoid bringing in the same old names that have been trading jobs for the past couple of decades, so I understand why they'd at least consider the risk.

Still, as you noted, the risk is there in his abilities as a coach, his personality, and his approach to the job. I understand why the Bucks would consider him, but I could easily see it ending badly.

[Stress Fracture]

Also, how could he say that Brook Lopez isn't a fit for his system when Lopez was out for a long time? Would Sanders be more fitting?

[Kevin]

ESPN sources say Bucks are sending two second-round picks to Nets to secure coaching rights to Jason Kidd
Aint that too cheap for a coach? Or am I missing something

[Stress Fracture]

2015 and 2019 second round picks.

2019.

[Alpha_]

2015 and 2018 or 2019 second round picks.

[PepsiWithCoke]

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Go Bulls.

[benji]

Adrian Wojnarowski: As part of Kidd deal, Brooklyn and Milwaukee will not be allowed to make a trade with each other during 2014-'15 season, source tells Yahoo.

[stereoxide]

That's how the greatest PG of all time is worth as a coach.