This would mean each of the Mavs top three assistants and their player development coach are hitting the exits
The Dallas Mavericks have had a turbulent offseason when it comes to the coaching staff. Jason Kidd has, and may still have, interest in the New York Knicks coaching job. Alex Jensen, who was Kidd’s number two last year, departed at the end of the season to be the head coach of his alma mater, the Utah Utes. And Sean Sweeney, Kidd’s lead assistant, is leaving to be the associate head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.
According to the Hoop Collective podcast, the Mavericks aren’t done seeing their staff leave, either. It appears that Jared Dudley is headed to join the Cleveland Cavaliers, while God Shammgod is likely to join Jamahl Mosley with the Orlando Magic.
Sure sounds like the Mavericks are about to lose Jared Dudley and God Shammgod, via The Hoop Collective pic.twitter.com/QckxlLR1Jg
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If these departures are finalized, that would mean the Dallas Mavericks coaching staff would be down their top three assistants from the previous season, while also losing their top two player development coaches, although Darrell Armstrong left rather unceremoniously.
Also of note, Tim MacMahon notes that Kidd has still not received the contract extension that he’s been looking for. This is important because, well, the New York Knicks also still don’t have a head coach. That’s not to say that he’s going to leave, but that door is still technically open.
What makes the situation fascinating is that the Mavericks have the number one overall pick coming into town tonight. Cooper Flagg is going to be a Dallas Maverick, and yet the entirety of the coaching staff has at worst already left, or at best at least thought about leaving. For an organization that has been in constant disarray ever since they traded Luka Doncic away in the middle of the night on February 1st, you would’ve hoped that lucking into Cooper Flagg would’ve been the reset needed to get the ship turned around.
Instead, the start of a new era appears to be just a continuation of what the last era finished: Instability and chaos.