MAVS hire Masai Ujiri as new team President

[Smitty]

I think Masai will do what's best for Flagg. If Flagg really wants Kidd to be the coach, and Kidd wants to stay on, it'll all make sense. If neither of those are the case, we'll see a coaching change. There is a world where Kidd doesn't want to be here. Maybe he has what he thinks is a better opportunity. A chance to eventually move into the front office somewhere, and we see a change. I think if that happens, there's a higher chance of a Kyrie trade this summer, or at the trade deadline.

Keeping Kidd or hiring a new coach, to have a full reset, both make sense on some level. Same for the Kyrie options. We'll know soon enough which direction Masai wants to go.

As for potential replacements, without doing a deep dive on Masai's professional relationships there... Sweeney and Mosely come to mind. I think Masai called out a few currently on the staff in his presser as well... At least I remember him mentioning Triano specifically.

Back to Kidd, I don't think he's some snake for wanting the president of basketball ops job. Going from player, to coach, to the front office seems like a natural progression, and a normal career goal for Kidd. His odds of ever doing that with the Mavs organization just went down considerably.