Mavs sign Kidd to multiyear contract extension

Coach Jason Kidd has signed a multiyear declaration hold with the Dallas Mavericks, the squad announced Tuesday.

Terms of the hold were not disclosed.

"Our full enactment profoundly appreciates Coach Kidd's leadership, absorption and affirmative energy," squad politician Patrick Dumont said successful a statement. "Coach Kidd embodies everything our enactment wants successful a leader, and I americium blessed helium volition beryllium present for galore years to come. We are assured that helium volition proceed to pb our squad successful a thoughtful and principled mode arsenic we prosecute our extremity of bringing championships to the metropolis of Dallas."

The hold comes successful the aftermath of beardown involvement successful Kidd from the New York Knicks earlier they hired Mike Brown to capable their coaching vacancy.

The Mavs declined to springiness the Knicks support to interrogation Kidd, who has a 179-149 grounds during his four-year stint successful Dallas. The Mavs person made runs to the 2022 Western Conference finals and 2024 NBA Finals nether Kidd.

"I'm grateful for the content that Patrick and [general manager] Nico [Harrison] person successful me, and the spot we've built portion moving unneurotic to conception a squad that Dallas tin beryllium arrogant of," Kidd said successful a statement. "We person a large radical of players present who emotion basketball, are talented and coachable. ... It's adjacent much peculiar that I tin proceed to manager the squad that drafted me, and wherever I was capable to triumph a rubric arsenic a player. I'm looking guardant to what's up and continuing to enactment toward bringing different title backmost to Dallas."

Kidd's erstwhile declaration hold came during Dallas' 2024 playoff run, erstwhile the Los Angeles Lakers had involvement successful interviewing him.