Mavericks Reportedly Have Jason Kidd Decision Amid Knicks News originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After the New York Knicks fired head coach Tom Thibodeau, pressure was on to find a great hire this offseason.

The New York Knicks made the somewhat surprising move to fire coach Tom Thibodeau after losing in the Eastern Conference Finals. It's not often that a front office goes ahead and fires a coach who makes the conference finals -- especially for a team that hasn't made it there in more than two decades.

The New York Knicks are conducting active due diligence on Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd among other head coaching candidates in their search to replace Tom Thibodeau, sources told ESPN.

Rick Pitino is coaching St. John's in New York, though he sounds like he doesn't want much to do with the Knicks job.

St. John's coach Rick Pitino said he has zero interest in becoming head coach of the New York Knicks again. "Absolutely not," Pitino said during a broadcast of Wednesday's game between the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Guardians,