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“I don’t have a particularly high opinion of him. Perhaps the best illustration is that, after working with Jason Kidd for a year, I sat down with him and said, ‘Look, I have a history with Luka Doncic and I know him well, we’ve worked together before, and that can certainly help the team, but I am not here working for Luka Doncic, I am working for you, this is your team.’ However, he could never really get over it. It was something in his head, part of his personal issues, which I didn’t want to get involved in," Kokoskov added. "After that first year in Dallas, once the season wrapped up. I got a call from Steve Nash, inviting me to join Brooklyn. I remember thinking 'I was working for the worst guy in the NBA and now I have a call from best guy in the NBA.'"
Kokoskov reunited with him in 2021 after joining Jason Kidd’s coaching staff in Dallas. His experience with the Mavericks coach, however, was not positive. “He was one of my favorite players and one of the greatest point guards to ever play the game. I loved the Princeton offense because of Jason Kidd. But Jason Kidd the player and Jason Kidd the coach and person are two completely different stories. I didn’t have a good experience with him, nor do I have a particularly high opinion of him off the court or as a head coach. And it’s fine for people to know that. That’s not just my opinion. He generally led some really gifted teams.”
He also described a conversation in which he tried to make it clear that his relationship with Doncic would not affect his loyalty to Kidd. “So, yeah, I don’t have a particularly high opinion of him. Perhaps the best illustration is that, after working with Jason Kidd for a year, I sat down with him and said: ‘Look, I have a history with Luka Doncic and I know him well. We’ve worked together before, and that can certainly help the team. But I am not here working for Luka Doncic. I am working for you. This is your team.’ However, he could never really get over it. It was something in his head, part of his personal issues, which I didn’t want to get involved in.”
ClutchPoints: Lance Stephenson names his top 5 point guards of all time: Isiah Thomas, Jason Kidd, Magic Johnson, Steph Curry, Luka Doncic. Do you agree with his top 5?
Jason Kidd: "I have talked about the Joker, but since you brought LeBron up, I would say LeBron's game is... my game is the closest to LeBron, even though his game is at a different altitude. He has the ability to make plays for his teammates. His IQ, understanding what is going to happen before it happens, is extremely high. Those are the two players when you talk about passing and just their basketball IQ."
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“Yeah, I think I love coaching. I love to watch players get better. I want to win. I want to help the team win,” Kidd said. “And so I would never say no to coaching. Maybe somewhere down the future, but also right now I’m just at home really trying to enjoy my family. And then also just watching the game and seeing if I can help others still from the coaching side. I’m always talking to Jalen Brunson and to Giannis. So just trying to help others now that I’m not coaching.”
Marc Stein: With Phil Handy now bound for Philly, per @MarcJSpears below, that means Dusty May’s first coaching staff in Dallas will be entirely new. Handy and Josh Broghamer (who recently left Dallas for Orlando) were the only holdovers left from Jason Kidd’s staff.
NBA champion and Basketball Hall of Famer Jason Kidd and WNBA champion Lauren Jackson will headline the first NBA House Philippines, set for August 29 to 30 in Makati City. Kidd, a 10-time NBA All-Star, is visiting the Philippines for the first time along with Jackson, a two-time WNBA champion and three-time MVP
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Marc Stein: The Magic are hiring Josh Broghamer away from Dallas to add him to Sean Sweeney’s first coaching staff in Orlando, @TheSteinLine has learned. Broghamer was Cooper Flagg’s summer league coach in July 2025 and ran Flagg’s pregame workouts last season as part of Jason Kidd’s staff.
Rick Carlisle: ‘In 2011, it was either now or never. The team was aging. The veterans were still at in a part of their prime. Jason Terry was still great, Dirk was great, Jason Kidd was 37 and he was still playing at a very high level. He almost won the MVP a few years earlier with the Nets. I mean, the Nets were an autumn feeder and the Jason Kidd got traded to New Jersey and they had them in the finals twice, you know, so that he still could have that kind of impact. We traded for Tyson Chandler who gave us a defensive guy similar to yourself, very energetic, very vocal, very positive, very upbeat, totally only into winning, and Shawn Marion was a very underrated player. You can make a case that Shawn Marion could be in a conversation for Hall of Fame on a many multiple year, all-star type thing, championship player, great two-way player. He had an unconventional game, but he was an original in his purest form. It was clear to us heading into that final series that we had to have a very simple plan and a big part of it was going to have to be persistence.’
Rick Carlisle: ‘One of the pictures from the 2011 finals was one where Jason Kidd was picking up full court against LeBron James. So we were going to be full court, we were going to make nothing easy and we were going to be persistent. We were always going to be there. We had a zone defense which we had developed really during the previous summer to prepare for that season and Tim Grgurich was a big part of that. Now, Grg came on board with us that year. You know Grg well and Grg is a guy who's really to me the godfather of modern player development and he's just a charismatic figure on a coaching staff. And so we knew our zone was going to have to give us some help in that series because the matchups just weren't there. We had Peja Stojakovic who had played well in the previous series against the Lakers, but the matchups were very difficult against Miami and so the zone, the zone had to help us there.’
Sources say Jay Triano, who has coached both the Raptors and the Suns in addition to numerous stops as an assistant and a lengthy stint as head coach of Canada's national team, is a leading candidate to join Micah Nori’s first coaching staff in Portland after working on Jason Kidd’s staff in Dallas last season. Nori’s first coaching job in the NBA came after working as an advance scout for more than a decade when Triano made him part of his Raptors coaching staff.