Report: ESPN in advanced talks to hire Jason Kidd
Kidd’s Mavericks tenure ended with the club ranked 23rd in net rating.
- Dallas: 26-56 in 2025-26
- Mavericks: -5.3 net rating, 23rd among 30 teams
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ESPN is in advanced talks to hire former Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd for its NBA studio coverage, Marc Stein of The Stein Line reported Monday. Stein also reported that Dallas fired Kidd in May after five seasons, two weeks after Masai Ujiri was hired as president of basketball operations.
The Mavericks went 26-56 in 2025-26 and ranked 27th offensively and 20th defensively among 30 teams. The offense ranked nearer the bottom than the defense, but neither unit placed in the league’s upper half. Together, those standings describe the team Kidd coached in his final season in Dallas.
Dallas was 23rd in net rating at -5.3, a measure of how a team scores relative to its opponents. That standing adds on-court context to the end of Kidd’s tenure as ESPN pursues a studio role for the former coach.
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Marc Stein@TheSteinLine · The Stein Line
NEWS: ESPN is in advanced talks to hire former Mavericks coach Jason Kidd to add him to their NBA studio coverage, @TheSteinLine has learned. Kidd was fired by the Mavericks in May after five seasons and two weeks after Masai Ujiri’s hiring as president of basketball operations. https://t.co/a9RlVamcLe
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