The Dallas Mavericks are finalizing a deal with Jason Kidd to make him their next coach, according to reports by both the New York Times and ESPN.

Nico Harrison, a longtime Nike executive, is also close to joining the Mavericks’ front office. Harrison has a good relationship with Mavericks star guard Luka Dončić and has a long-standing friendship with Kidd, the former St. Joseph Notre Dame and Cal standout who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.

This would be Kidd’s third head coaching job in the NBA. He coached the Brooklyn Nets for one season in 2013-14, then had his coaching rights traded by the Nets to the Bucks for two second-round draft picks.

Kidd remained with Milwaukee until midway through the 2017-18 season when he was fired after a 23-22 start and a power struggle with the Bucks’ front office. He went 139-152 as Milwaukee’s coach and led the team to two playoff appearances. Kidd, who has been an assistant with the Los Angeles Lakers for the last two years, has a career coaching record of 183-190.

Kidd has already started to assemble a coaching staff, according to ESPN.

Kidd was drafted by the Mavericks in 1994, one of two stints he had with the team. He played in Dallas until 1996 before he was traded to Phoenix after a feud with then-teammate Jim Jackson, then was traded back to Dallas in 2008 by the then-New Jersey Nets. Kidd helped the Mavericks win an NBA title in 2011.

Rick Carlisle resigned as the Mavericks’ coach last week but endorsed Kidd to be the team’s next coach on his way out.

There were reports of simmering tension between Carlisle and Dončić, as the Mavericks finished fifth in the Western Conference this season but lost to the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs. Dallas also lost to the Clippers in the first round of the 2020 playoffs.

“My hope is that Jason Kidd will be the next coach of the Mavs because he and Luka have so many things in common as players,” Carlisle told ESPN.

“I just think that it would be a great situation for Luka, and I think it would be an amazing situation for Jason. I’m the only person on the planet that’s coached both of those guys and that knows about all of their special qualities as basketball players. To me, that just would be a great marriage, but that’s just an opinion.”