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Greg St. Jean Out as Mavs Assistant; Could Ex-Lakers Coach Frank Vogel Join Jason Kidd's Staff?

The Dallas Mavericks are having to make a coaching change, as assistant coach Greg St. Jean won't be back on Jason Kidd's staff next season.

Dalton Trigg

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Nearly two weeks ago, NBA Insider Marc Stein reported that the Dallas Mavericks were adding a new voice to their front office by hiring former long-tenured Utah Jazz executive Dennis Linsey. On Wednesday, ESPN's Tim MacMahon reported another change is coming the Mavs' way this summer, and this time it has to do with head coach Jason Kidd's coaching staff.

"Sources: Assistant coach Greg St. Jean will not return to the Mavs’ coaching staff," MacMahon tweeted. "Jason Kidd brought St. Jean to Dallas from the Lakers and promoted him to first row last season. The Mavs will look to add more experience to Kidd’s staff."

One logical assistant-coach replacement for Kidd's staff would be former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Frank Vogel. Kidd was on Vogel's staff as an assistant when the Lakers won the 2020 NBA championship in the Orlando Bubble, and he credits Vogel for helping him grow into being a better coach than he was with the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets earlier in his coaching career.

“Frank Vogel prepared me for this and then also my early stops in Brooklyn and Milwaukee," Kidd said after the Mavs advanced to the Western Conference Finals last season. "Just understanding, putting guys in a position to be successful and then also listening to your star player; he wants to have fun, so let’s have fun. And the accountability piece, those are the words that we talked about this season, and that’s what we hold each other accountable. It’s those words that we came up with and no one’s exempt from them."

Vogel was seen hanging around the Mavs' practices on multiple occasions in the last year – once in training camp in September and then another time in January. The Mavs surely have a full list of potential candidate to fill in St. Jean's spot, but we won't be surprised if Vogel ends up being on the shortlist, assuming he doesn't get another head-coaching position elsewhere.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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