The first big step was drafting Cooper Flagg with the #1 overall pick<\/a>. Flagg is set to be the future of their franchise.<\/p>\n But the next step was signing Kyrie Irving to a three-year, $119 million extension<\/a>. Since Irving can\u2019t play for most of next season, the Mavericks needed another point guard to fill in.<\/p>\n As such, Dallas went out and signed D\u2019Angelo Russell<\/a>. It\u2019s clear the Mavericks have a plan to contend for a championship this season.<\/p>\n And to further help them, they signed former LA Lakers<\/a> head coach Frank Vogel<\/a> to be an assistant. Vogel, who fans will remember was the head coach of Anthony Davis<\/a> on the Lakers when they won a championship.<\/p>\n Back in January of 2020, during both Frank Vogel and Anthony Davis\u2019 first season with the LA Lakers, ESPN<\/a> did a feature on the head coach\u2019s stint with the team.<\/p>\n Davis had a lot of positive things to say about Vogel\u2019s coaching style and how he was able to keep the entire side motivated without ever getting too carried away.<\/p>\n \u201cFrank comes in every day, win or lose, with the same attitude. Never too high and never too low. I love his coaching, I love his coaching style \u2014 and I love him as a coach.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s impressed me the most is that even when we win, he holds us accountable. When a team sees a coach getting on LeBron or me, the other guys respect him more and know they\u2019ll be held accountable too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jason Kidd also has experience with Frank Vogel<\/p>\n Frank Vogel isn\u2019t just familiar with Anthony Davis. During his time on the Lakers, Jason Kidd<\/a> was one of his assistant coaches.<\/p>\n Kidd had earned somewhat of a negative reputation as a head coach after his stints with the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> and Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But Vogel still took a chance on Kidd, admitting that he wanted a coach with experience in the position, but also one who was a former player.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t have four video guys on my staff. The right complement for me has always been a respected former player who has coaching experience.<\/p>\n \u201cBut you can\u2019t have the mindset that you\u2019re going to look over your shoulder \u2014 you need firepower on staff.\u201d<\/p>\n The last time the two were on a coaching staff together, they led a team to an NBA championship. The Mavericks will be hoping that they can repeat the same magic trick this season.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis certainly has a lot of experience playing under Frank Vogel during his time with the LA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[495,7,149,2074,3716,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-146319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-anthony-davis","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-frank-vogel","12":"tag-jason-kidd","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-lakers","15":"tag-lakers","16":"tag-lalakers","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangeleslakers","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114794166041592780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Frank](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1211209906-826x627.jpg\")
Photo by Harry How\/Getty ImagesAnthony Davis loved playing under Frank Vogel on the LA Lakers<\/p>\n