Brooklyn Nets Coach Jason Kidd Suspended For 2 Games Over DUI

DURHAM, NC — Jason Kidd won’t even be allowed in the building for his first two games as a head coach.

As expected, the NBA suspended Kidd for opener at Cleveland on Oct. 30 and the home opener against the Heat on Nov. 1 because he pled guilty to DUI in July.

“The decision is consistent with what the league has done in the past and we look forward to Jason leading our tea versus Orlando (away on Nov. 3) and the rest of the year,” GM Billy King said in a statement.

It's expected that Lawrence Frank — who has been the dominating coaching voice in training camp — will takeover for Kidd, who was driving impaired when he wrapped his Cadillac Escalade around a telephone pole in the Hamptons in July of 2012.

His first home game will be Nov. 5 at Utah.

Kidd will still get to coach the seven preseason games, starting Tuesday at Washington. In 2007, Sacramento coach Eric Musselman pled guilty to DUI in the offseason and was also suspended for the first two games of the regular season.

The Nets are retiring Kidd’s number before a game on Oct. 17, but have insisted that the decision to do it in the preseason had nothing to do with the suspension — but rather Kidd's insistence that he wants no distractions during the regular season.



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