Sources: Knicks interested in speaking with Kidd

The New York Knicks are conducting progressive owed diligence connected Dallas Mavericks manager Jason Kidd among different caput coaching candidates successful their hunt to regenerate Tom Thibodeau, sources told ESPN.

The Knicks person yet to petition support to talk to Kidd, who has 2 years remaining connected the declaration hold helium signed during the Mavs' 2024 tally to the NBA Finals, sources said.

Dallas wide manager Nico Harrison and politician Patrick Dumont person not yet discussed whether the franchise would beryllium consenting to assistance support for Kidd to talk to the Knicks, sources said.

The teams theoretically could enactment retired a commercialized that would let the Knicks to prosecute Kidd. However, New York depleted its aboriginal draught assets by sending 5 first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets successful past summer's commercialized for guardant Mikal Bridges.

New York has a top-eight-protected 2026 prime from the Washington Wizards and 8 second-round picks, including No. 50 wide successful June's draft. The Knicks tin besides connection first-round swap rights successful 2026, 2030, 2031 and 2032.

Kidd was portion of the radical that interviewed for the Knicks occupation successful 2020 earlier it went to Thibodeau.

The Knicks opted to determination connected from Thibodeau, the fourth-winningest manager successful franchise past and by acold their astir palmy 1 this century, aft New York got eliminated by the Pacers successful the Eastern Conference finals.

Thibodeau led the Knicks to back-to-back 50-win seasons for the archetypal clip since the mid-1990s, and oversaw the club's stunning second-round triumph implicit the defending-champion Boston Celtics. But helium besides leaned heavy connected a starting 5 that produced diminishing returns implicit the 2nd fractional of the regular play and was thoroughly outscored passim the playoffs. His .579 winning percent successful the regular play is the highest successful league past (minimum 300 games) among those who've ne'er reached the NBA Finals, according to ESPN Research.

Kidd, who finished his Hall of Fame playing vocation with the Knicks successful 2013, served arsenic the caput manager of the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks earlier signing connected to pb the Mavericks. Dallas has logged a 54.6% triumph percent (179-149) successful Kidd's 4 seasons astatine the helm.

Kidd led the Mavericks to the Finals a twelvemonth ago, but Dallas has since traded superstar Luka Doncic -- a determination that Harrison, the Mavs executive, acknowledged helium didn't tally by Kidd earlier making the February blockbuster woody with the Los Angeles Lakers.

ESPN's Chris Herring contributed to this report.