The Athletic's renowned journalist Christian Clark, exclusively reported on Wednesday that the Dallas Mavericks management is confident that its head coach Jason Kidd will not jump ship to the New York Knicks.

According to Clark's report, sources believe that based on various current signs, the 52-year-old coach is very likely to continue to serve as the head coach of the Mavericks next season.

It is reported that although the New York Knicks do intend to appoint Kidd, whose contract is still two years to run, as its new head coach, the Mavericks management has clearly informed the team's key stakeholders that they must retain the latter.

The Knicks have never obtained permission to approach Kidd, and he himself is more inclined to ignore the former's offer so that he can get a contract extension with a more generous salary.

However, it is worth mentioning that at present, industry journalists including Clark himself still cannot know what Kidd will do if his plan to renew his contract fails. After all, the coach has already had precedence of betraying the Dallas Mavericks and jumped ship to the Knicks during his playing career.

In his glorious 19-year playing career, Kidd, who was a free agent at the time, suddenly gave up re-signing with the Mavericks in the summer of 2012 when his career was nearing its end, and joined the Knicks to play with 10-time All-Star small forward Carmelo Anthony.

Despite leading the team to the Eastern Conference Finals, the Mavericks suddenly fired Tom Thibodeau, the 67-year-old coach who had achieved the best record of the century with the team last Tuesday (June 3).

Since then, the new head coach of the NBA team has been widely rumored on the Internet. Among them, Kidd, Mike Malone, Jay Wright, and Frank Vogel are all highly speculated coaches.