{"id":16682,"date":"2022-08-10T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:36:41","slug":"mavericks-plan-to-add-ex-nba-guard-marko-milic-to-jason-kidds-coaching-staff-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/mavericks-plan-to-add-ex-nba-guard-marko-milic-to-jason-kidds-coaching-staff-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks plan to add ex-NBA guard Marko Mili\u010d to Jason Kidd\u2019s coaching staff, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Dallas Mavericks might be getting a little more Slovenian flavor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas plans to hire former NBA guard Marko Mili\u010d to join Jason Kidd\u2019s coaching staff in player development, according to a report from league insider Marc Stein. <\/p>\n<div data-oembed-type=\"twitter\" class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dallas plans to hire former NBA swingman Marko Mili\u010d \u2014 Slovenia\u2019s first NBA player \u2014 to join the coaching staff in player development, league sources confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Mili\u010d obviously knows Luka Don\u010di\u0107 well and played with Jason Kidd in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA from me: https:\/\/t.co\/LGN9cV7Dif<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1557159430734561282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Mili\u010d, who was the NBA\u2019s first Slovenian player, has obvious ties to Mavs star Luka Doncic, a Slovenian native himself. He also played with Jason Kidd when he was on the Phoenix Suns from 1997-99. He appeared in 44 games during his lone NBA stint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Earlier this offseason, the Mavs lost assistant coach Igor Koko\u0161kov, another friend of Doncic, to the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p><label class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__3q38c pr-3 text-blue\">Related:<\/label><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__OxO6c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2022\/08\/06\/luka-doncic-is-an-mvp-favorite-why-are-the-mavs-projected-to-make-the-play-in-tournament\/\">Luka Doncic is an MVP favorite. Why are the Mavs projected to make the play-in tournament?<\/article>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><b>Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks might be getting a little more Slovenian flavor. Dallas plans to hire former NBA guard Marko Mili\u010d to join Jason Kidd\u2019s coaching staff in player development, according to a report from league insider Marc Stein. Dallas plans to hire former NBA swingman Marko Mili\u010d \u2014 Slovenia\u2019s first NBA player \u2014 to join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[616,302,2249,3521,280,534,1997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16684,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions\/16684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}