Mavericks adding championship-winning head coach to staff

The Mavericks are intend to make Frank Vogel their associate head coach under Jason Kidd, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. Vogel served as a coaching consultant for the team last season.

Generally considered a defense-oriented coach, Vogel has had a good deal of success during prior stops with the Pacers (2011-16), the Lakers (2019-22), and even the Suns (2023-24), but he did spend two seasons (2016-18) struggling to make a misaligned Magic roster soluble.

All told, he boasts a 480-422 (.532) regular-season coaching record and a 49-43 playoff mark. Vogel led the Lakers to a championship in 2020 with Kidd on his staff as an assistant.

As Marc Stein of The Stein Line observes, Vogel is the second former NBA head coach to reach a deal with the Mavs this offseason, joining Jay Triano. Kidd’s staff is undergoing some changes, with lead assistant Sean Sweeney having departed for San Antonio in June after Alex Jensen left for the University of Utah in March.

Another Mavs assistant, Jared Dudley, is in advanced talks to join the rival Nuggets as the lead assistant under David Adelman, Stein notes, while God Shammgod may also end up leaving Dallas for Orlando.

The Mavs’ new-look staff will be tasked with maximizing the potential of a team incorporating No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg to a roster headlined by aging stars Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving (who will be rehabbing an ACL injury for much of the year) and Klay Thompson.