{"id":99251,"date":"2025-06-14T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/99251\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:46:10","slug":"nba-rumors-jason-kidd-or-billy-donovan-could-force-trade-to-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/99251\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA rumors: Jason Kidd or Billy Donovan could force trade to New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/new-york-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Knicks\u2019<\/a> request to speak with <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/dallas-mavericks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> coach Jason Kidd and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/chicago-bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bulls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bulls<\/a> contemporary Billy Donovan was emphatically shut down this week. However, a new report opens the door to either coach still ending up in Gotham this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what happens now? For starters, sources said, there\u2019s some belief that things could change in the cases of Kidd in Dallas and Donovan in Chicago,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45500614\/nba-finals-2025-hearing-durant-giannis-knicks-coach-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN NBA insiders Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN NBA insiders Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst<\/a> wrote. \u201cKidd has a long history of fiery departures from prior stops. Including in 2014, when he wound up getting permission to leave the Brooklyn Nets to join the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKidd also has a lot of relationships in New York from his year playing there in 2012-13. \u201cAnd has a relationship with\u00a0Jalen Brunson\u00a0from coaching him in Dallas before the guard came to New York three years ago as a free agent,\u201d the report added. \u201cDonovan, meanwhile, is a Long Island native who played 44 games with the 1987-88 Knicks after starring at Providence College. He would undoubtedly be the kind of hit the Knicks are looking for locally after moving on from Thibodeau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that Kidd is the Knicks\u2019 No. 1 choice to replace fired head coach Tom Thibodeau. Along with a built-in relationship with Brunson, he knows how to deal with the New York media. After years in New Jersey and a season with the Knicks. Plus, he has a solid coaching resume that includes a trip to the NBA Finals last year \u2014 something Thibodeau has never done \u2014 and a pair of West Finals appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan is a legendary college basketball head coach who has had notable success in the pros. He has posted a 438-362 during stints with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Chicago Bulls and guided them to the playoffs in six of those seasons.<\/p>\n<p>More New York Knicks news and rumors:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks\u2019 request to speak with Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd and Chicago Bulls contemporary Billy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,3363,2949,247,329,149,288,3716,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,179,1275,1416],"class_list":{"0":"post-99251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-billy-donovan","10":"tag-brian-windhorst","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-chicago-bulls","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-jalen-brunson","15":"tag-jason-kidd","16":"tag-knicks","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-knicks","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkknicks","22":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","23":"tag-tim-bontemps","24":"tag-tom-thibodeau"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114684388002305473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99251","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=99251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}