Jason Kidd delivered a piece of news no one would have expected just a few short months, or even weeks, ago: Lawrence Frank will no longer be around the Nets on a daily basis.
“Lawrence has been reassigned to doing daily reports and he won’t be sitting on the bench or at practice,” Kidd said Tuesday before the Nets lost to the Nuggets..
The Nets gave Frank a six-year deal worth roughly $6 million, making him the NBA’s highest paid assistant coach at the time, and with the possibility of transitioning into the front office in the future.
A league source said Frank was assigning tasks to fellow assistants — traditionally a responsibility of the head coach — and it didn’t sit well with other members of Kidd’s staff.
Another source said the relationship between the two had gotten to the point where Kidd felt he was being undermined by Frank with players and assistant coaches on the staff.