The talk of the Dallas Mavericks’ offseason has been No. 1 overall draft pick Cooper Flagg, somewhat obscuring a massive overhaul of the coaching staff.
Head coach Jason Kidd had to replace all three of his front-of-the-bench assistants as Sean Sweeney, Alex Jensen and Jared Dudley accepted other jobs.
Here’s a breakdown of the staff for the 2025-26 season, including new faces and holdovers from last season.
Dallas Mavericks summer league coach Josh Broghamer is interviewed by the media following their first summer league practice in Dallas, July 8, 2025.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
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Josh Broghamer
Broghamer joined the Mavericks’ staff in August 2023 after working with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2018 to that year. He previously worked with Kidd as a video coordinator and assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Broghamer was the head coach of the Mavericks’ Summer League team during the offseason, replacing Dudley. Dallas finished 2-3, but the annual showcase gave Broghamer a chance to run the offense through No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg, along with two-way guards Ryan Nembhard and Miles Kelly.
Mist’s head coach Phil Handy gestures during the first half of the inaugural Unrivaled 3-on-3 basketball game against the Lunar Owls, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Medley, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)(Marta Lavandier / AP)Phil Handy
Handy, one of the new additions to the staff, has had relationships with Mavericks stars Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis for years.
He’s been an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers twice, under Mike Brown from 2011 to 2013 and Frank Vogel from 2019-2024. Handy and Kidd were part of the staff when the Lakers and Davis won an NBA championship in 2020 under Vogel, the Mavericks’ new lead assistant.
Handy spent the 2024-25 season as head coach of the Mist BC, part of the Unrivaled women’s basketball league that features WNBA stars.
Handy was also an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2013 to 2018, winning a championship with Irving in 2016. He won a third NBA title in the 2018-19 season with the Toronto Raptors.
Eric Hughes
Hughes joined Kidd’s staff for the 2023-24 season. He was a Philadelphia 76ers assistant from 2020-23 and previously held coaching roles in Milwaukee, Brooklyn and Toronto.
Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone, second from front, looks on with assistant coaches Ryan Saunders, front, and Popeye Jones in the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)(David Zalubowski / AP)Popeye Jones
Jones returns to Dallas this offseason after four seasons as a Denver Nuggets assistant. The longtime coach spent seven seasons with the Indiana Pacers before a one-season stint with the 76ers from 2020-21.
Jones began his coaching career with the Mavericks, where he worked in player development from 2007 to 2010. He played for the Mavericks alongside Kidd for two seasons from 1993 to 1996. Over his 11-year NBA career, Jones also played for the Raptors, Boston Celtics, Nuggets, Washington Wizards and Golden State Warriors before retiring in 2004.
Mike Penberthy
Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel, right, and assistant coach Mike Penberthy talks during a timeout in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.(Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP)
Penberthy overlapped with Jones in Denver the last three seasons, where he was a shooting coach and pro scout. He’s also another former Lakers assistant who developed a close relationship with Davis over three seasons in LA, which included winning the 2020 title with Vogel, Kidd and Handy. Penberthy also has an NBA title from his lone season as a player, 2000-01 with the Lakers.
He began his coaching career as a shooting coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2014-15 season.
Jay Triano
Sacramento Kings assistant coach Jay Triano in the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)(David Zalubowski / AP)
Triano is the second-lead assistant on the bench, replacing Jensen.
Triano, 66, has more than two decades of coaching experience, including as a head coach in Toronto and Phoenix. He was an assistant in Sacramento the last three seasons and in Charlotte from 2018 until 2022, a period that overlapped with Mavericks forward P.J. Washington.
The Ontario native is a former member of the Canadian men’s national team who competed in two Olympics in 1984 and 1988. He also had two stints as coach of the national team.
Keith Veney
Veney is entering his second season on Kidd’s staff. He joined the Mavericks from the Shot Doc Shooting Academy, which he started to train NBA and WNBA players. He played five seasons overseas in France, Iceland, Israel, Poland and the Dominican Republic.
Veney is tied for the NCAA record for most 3-pointers in a game (15), which he achieved at Marshall in West Virginia. The Maryland native spent his first two years of college at Lamar in Beaumont.
Frank Vogel
Vogel has a longstanding relationship with Kidd, who served as an assistant on his Lakers staff from 2019 through 2021. The roles are reversed this time around, with Kidd as the head coach and Vogel assisting from the first seat on the bench.
Vogel spent last season as a consultant for the Mavericks. His most recent season as a head coach was in 2023-24, when the Phoenix Suns fired him after just one season. Vogel is still owed for three seasons of the five-year, $31 million contract he signed with Phoenix in 2023.