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Marc Stin: UPDATE: Both Phil Handy and Popeye Jones have agreed to join Jason Kidd’s coaching staff in Dallas, league sources tell @TheSteinLine and @DLLS_Sports . Handy and Jones will join Jay Triano as newcomers … with Mavs coaching consultant Frank Vogel now Kidd’s associate head coach.

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Marc J. Spears: Former Mavericks big man Popeye Jones confirmed he is returning to Dallas to join his former teammate Jason Kidd’s staff as an assistant coach. Jones also coached under new Mavs assistant Frank Vogel in Indiana and has had a long relationship with Mavs president Nico Harrison.

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Dave McMenamin: The Dallas Mavericks are hiring Mike Penberthy to their coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Penberthy reunites in Dallas with Jason Kidd and recently-hired assistant coach Frank Vogel as fellow members from the Lakers 2020 championship staff.

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Marc Stein: Jason Kidd will now have two former NBA head coaches on his Mavs staff next season: Frank Vogel and Jay Triano. Vogel still has three seasons left on his Suns HC deal. Denver is in advanced talks to hire Dallas' Jared Dudley to be No. 1 assistant to Nuggets coach David Adelman.

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Michael Scotto: Just In: The Dallas Mavericks are adding Frank Vogel as an associate head coach, league sources told @hoopshype . Vogel reunites with head coach Jason Kidd. The two won a championship together with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. Vogel replaced Sean Sweeney who left for the Spurs.

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Shams Charania: Frank Vogel is finalizing an agreement to join the Dallas Mavericks as a lead assistant coach under Jason Kidd, sources tell ESPN. The 2020 NBA championship-winning coach is a major addition to the Mavericks staff.

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Marc Stein: Frank Vogel has agreed to join the Mavericks' coaching staff as associate head coach, league sources say. @HoopsHype 's @MikeAScotto was first to report that Vogel has accepted Jason Kidd's pitch to replace Sean Sweeney on the Mavericks' bench.

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Marc Stein: The natural response for Dallas, league sources say, is to sound out Dallas coaching consultant Frank Vogel about his willingness to move into Sweeney's chair, but Vogel has been very comfortable to this point to stay in a consulting role while awaiting his next HC opportunity.

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Michael Scotto: With associate head coach Sean Sweeney departing the Dallas Mavericks, a potential candidate to replace him could be Frank Vogel. Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd and Vogel worked together for two years, including winning the 2020 championship together with the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Kendrick Perkins:Obviously, he's going to be traded from the reports before the draft or maybe on draft night. I would like to tell the teams out there that's actually looking to get Kevin Durant approach with cautions. Okay? Because Kevin Durant is not a needle mover in my opinion no more when it comes down to if you're trying to win a championship and this is not something that I'm making up. This is facts, right? Like he hasn't moved the needle. Brooklyn Nets, one of the biggest busts in NBA history with that Big Three in Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. Move over, you go to the Phoenix Suns, another bust with another big three. Two firings of two championship coaches in Frank Vogel and Mike Budenholzer.

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Devin Booker was the franchise player before Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal were acquired and he remains the franchise player. He was the franchise player before Budenholzer and previous one-year coach Frank Vogel -- Ishbia is on the hook for paying the departed coaches around $18 million combined next season, sources said -- and Booker remains so as he finishes the first season of a four-year, $220 million extension.  Booker is eligible to sign a two-year $149.8 million extension this summer, which Phoenix is expected to offer, sources said. In his first season under Budenholzer, Booker averaged a career-high 37.3 minutes, 25.6 points -- his lowest since 2028 -- and shot a career-low 33% from 3. As the season fell to pieces, Booker made a perceptible shift in speaking about the importance of his "voice." It was multifaceted -- and intentional, sources said. He and Budenholzer got into a dust-up during the season about Booker's communication in team settings, such as in huddles and film sessions, sources said. Booker referencing it sent a message to the coach who was on his way out. And Booker, now 28 and 10 years into his career, is also subtly letting it be known he will have more to say going forward.

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Brian : 4 of the last 6 NBA championship coaches have been fired. One (Vogel) has been fired twice 2019: Nick Nurse fired 2020: Frank Vogel fired 2021: Mike Budenholzer fired 2022: Steve Kerr still there 2023: Michael Malone fired 2024: Joe Mazulla still there

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Marc Stein: But it certainly does raise eyebrows that Frank Vogel was given a five-year contract and dismissed after one season. Then they hire Budenholzer to a five-year contract, and we’re not even at the end of Year 1, and in coaching circles, the whispers are already starting. My good friend Chris Haynes, my longtime podcast partner, had the report last week about Budenholzer telling Devin Booker to be less vocal—and how that shocked Booker. So, it’s like... the stream of headlines that have come out of Phoenix this season—it's just wild.

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Davis admitted when I asked him Saturday that he never expected to be involved in a midseason trade but added that the Mavericks' use of defensive schemes and "verbage" (as he put it) from Frank Vogel's playbook during the Lakers' run to a championship in the Walt Disney World bubble in the 2019-20 season has helped make the transition easier.

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