When Damian Lillard publicly endorsed Jason Kidd for the open Portland Trail Blazers head coaching job, it may have seemed to some like a foregone conclusion that the Lakers assistant would be hired for the gig. After all, NBA stars get what they want, right?
In #thisleague, though, things are never quite that simple. Instead, Kidd has withdrawn his name from consideration, and went on the record to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN about why he was doing so:
“Portland’s a first-class organization and will have great candidates for its head coaching job, but I’ve decided not to be one of them,” Kidd told ESPN.