NEW YORK — The NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets have agreed to a deal allowing Jason Kidd to become Milwaukee’s head coach, a person with knowledge of the details said Monday.
The Nets will receive a second-round draft pick in 2015 that was formerly their own, and another in 2019 belonging to either Milwaukee or Sacramento.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced.
Kidd went 44-38 in his only season as Nets coach, but then sought control of the basketball operations department and was denied. The Nets gave him permission to talk to other teams about a job.
Milwaukee still has coach Larry Drew under contract.
It was a stunningly quick ending to what had been Kidd’s celebrated return to the franchise he twice led to the NBA Finals as a player. The Nets hired him last June as coach just weeks after he retired as a player and retired his No. 5 before a preseason game in October. Also, he bought a small portion of the team.
There was no indication Thursday he wouldn’t be back when he appeared at a press conference where the Nets announced plans for their new practice facility.
Milwaukee had the NBA’s worst record last season at 15-67, but there had been nothing to believe Drew wouldn’t return. However, the Bucks have new co-owners in Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, and Lasry and Kidd are friends.
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