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Multiple rumors have linked the Knicks' head coaching vacancy to Jason Kidd, currently employed by our Dallas Mavericks. If Kidd has actual interest in leaving Dallas for New York, what would it take for the Mavs to give him up? Should they try to make a deal happen if there is mutual interest?
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00:00I'm having a very difficult time emotionally with this team.
00:19Sure.
00:20So I'm at a point now where if that was to happen, I wouldn't be surprised.
00:26Yeah.
00:27Because they traded the best player on the team.
00:30For sure.
00:30Actually, was he the best player on the team?
00:33He was.
00:34Because Cooper Flagg wasn't here yet.
00:35Cooper Flagg wasn't here yet.
00:36I got you.
00:37And then they got the number one overall pick.
00:40And you're like, that's never happened before.
00:42Two things that have never happened before.
00:44So if they decided, you know what, we're going to trade Jason Kidd, I would be like, I'm not surprised.
00:48I like Jason Kidd, though.
00:49Sure.
00:50Now, is it because we had him on the show the other day and he was awesome and he was great and everything?
00:54And he seemed like he was our best friend after we were done?
00:57No, that's not the reason.
00:58Oh, I think Jason Kidd's a brilliant basketball mind.
01:01Agreed.
01:02I think that he has overperformed as a coach at times here.
01:07Getting them to the Western Conference Finals, you can put a lot of that in Lucas Court for sure.
01:12But also, Jason Kidd was the one with his coaching staff kind of molding that whole thing as they went along.
01:20Playing the good game of chess, as he talked about.
01:26He's got you to the NBA Finals.
01:28I don't want to move on from people that know how to win like that.
01:31Again, this goes with the DeBoer conversation, right?
01:35Because DeBoer knew how to win.
01:37And now you're going to bring somebody in that needs to know how to win too.
01:41So, my feeling is if Jason Kidd was to be gone, would they be able to say,
01:48Sean Sweeney, you are now the head coach of this team?
01:51And I would feel pretty comfortable with that.
01:53Okay.
01:53But if you move on from your head coach, now you have a search.
01:56And you have been building this entire vision with Jason Kidd in mind.
02:01This entire defense first philosophy, we're trading Luca for this.
02:06We want this guy.
02:07You've been building it with Jason Kidd as the one that was going to coach the team.
02:11Why would you say, you know what, we're willing to trade him for a pick just because you want him, New York.
02:15We want him too.
02:16Sure.
02:16So, I don't understand why you would just bend the knee to somebody else because they're in a larger market like you did to L.A. just recently.
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