Dallas Mavericks fire head coach Jason Kidd after abysmal season

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Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd (2026)
Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd (2026)Christian Petersen / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA

The Dallas Mavericks fired head coach Jason Kidd on Tuesday after five seasons with the team.

Kidd, 53, led the Mavericks to a 26-56 record this past season - their worst since 1995-1996 when the franchise posted the same record. He finished his time in Dallas with a 205-205 record and one Western Conference Championship (2023-2024). 

Kidd will now be looking for his new landing spot and possibly his sixth new team since becoming a coach in the league he was once a force in. He started his NBA coaching career with the Brooklyn Nets (2013-2014) before moving on to the Milwaukee Bucks for the next four years (2014-2017). 

After taking a season off (2018) from coaching, Kidd came back into the league as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers for a couple of years (2019-2020). Then, he got back in the saddle again with the Mavs in 2021. 

Kidd's lone year in Brooklyn is the only tenure with a team where he left with a winning record. Before finishing 205-205 with the Mavericks, he left Milwaukee with a 139-152 record, losing in the first round of the NBA playoffs in three of his five years with them. 

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