Overview
- The Mavericks remain without a head coach roughly a month after firing Jason Kidd as the organization has paused to pursue Duke coach Jon Scheyer.
- Dallas has given Scheyer extensive time to consider the job because he recruited and coached Cooper Flagg during Flagg’s lone college season at Duke.
- Multiple league sources express persistent doubt that Scheyer or Michigan’s Dusty May will leave their college posts, and reporting says Scheyer prefers to stay at Duke.
- If the college targets decline, the Mavericks are actively weighing NBA assistants and experienced head-coaching candidates such as Royal Ivey, Jama Mahlalela, Micah Nori and Terry Stotts.
- The extended search leaves Dallas operating under draft-timing pressure and raises practical questions about who will lead Flagg’s development and the franchise’s broader rebuild.