Jason Kidd to get contract extension from Milwaukee Bucks

Jason Kidd and the Milwaukee Bucks are closing on a three-year contract extension that will keep Kidd with the Bucks through the 2020 NBA season.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical of Yahoo! Sports, the Milwaukee Bucks are in the process of giving head coach Jason Kidd a three-year contract extension worth over $15 million.

This extension would keep Kidd under contract as the Bucks head coach through the 2020 NBA season. He had one year remaining on his first three-year deal with the team, which he signed in the summer of 2014.

While Milwaukee played well enough defensively to get the No. 6 seed in the 2015 NBA Playoffs, Kidd’s Bucks stumbled in 2015-16 to a sub-.500 record and the No. 10 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.

Kidd missed ample time on the sidelines this winter, as he elected to undergo hip surgery mid-season. The Bucks are talented, but young and not having their head coach for much of the 2015-16 campaign jeopardized Milwaukee’s playoff chances.

Part of the reason Kidd left his former employer in the Brooklyn Nets after the 2013-14 NBA season as a first-year head coach was to take on more of a front office role with the Bucks. Now it seems that the Bucks organization wants him to focus solely on coaching with this upcoming contract extension.

This new deal of Kidd’s comes as a bit of a surprise, as the Bucks have struggled since the 2015 All-Star Break with him at the helm. One could argue that Kidd was probably one of a few NBA head coaches most on the hot seat before getting this latest contract offer.

The Bucks have many great young players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jabari Parker and Khris Middleton, but they will have to vie for playoff contention in 2016-17 for this new deal that Kidd is getting to be worthwhile.

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