After over a month of searching, the Los Angeles Lakers still don’t have a head coach in place after failing to reach an agreement with Tyronn Lue earlier this week. However, as the days go by, it seems more and more likely that Basketball Hall of Famer Jason Kidd will get serious consideration for the job.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the front office was hoping that Lue would add Kidd to his coaching staff, but now that Lue has seemingly taken himself out of the running for the job, Kidd should be considered one of the heavy favorites to land the head coaching position.

Kidd wasn’t especially successful during his time with the Milwaukee Bucks, going 139-152 through two and a half seasons and posting a 33.3 percent winning percentage in the postseason, but he did have a hand in developing the team’s young talent like Malcolm Brogdon, Khris Middleton and, of course, Giannis Antetokounmpo. Now, it’s hard to argue that he got the best out of his young team considering the Bucks punched a ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals a year after his dismissal, but there’s no denying he played some role in their development.

According to Brian Windhorst of ESPN, Kidd has been selling the Lakers on his ability to develop young talent and would be especially excited to work alongside Lonzo Ball:

I don’t want to pull back the curtain too much but I’ve spent a considerable amount of time talking to Jason Kidd about the Lakers job. I can’t say that I know exactly what he said to them in his interview, but I have a general idea of what his vision for the team was and I think one of the things that Jason really believed in was developing their young players. Again, I don’t want to violate too much of a confidence here, but when we spoke about it, I really do think he was a big believer in Lonzo Ball. He thinks Lonzo Ball can really be a good player. He wants to help develop him.

Kidd and Ball have been linked since Ball first stepped out on the scene in 2016 because of their size at the point guard position and elite court vision. In fact, their splits from their respective rookie season are eerily similar:

Per Game Table Rk Player Season Age G GS MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% 2P 2PA 2P% eFG% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS 1 Lonzo Ball 2017-18 20 52 50 34.2 3.9 10.8 .360 1.7 5.7 .305 2.2 5.2 .420 .440 0.6 1.4 .451 1.3 5.6 6.9 7.2 1.7 0.8 2.6 2.3 10.2 2 Jason Kidd* 1994-95 21 79 79 33.8 4.2 10.8 .385 0.9 3.3 .272 3.3 7.6 .433 .426 2.4 3.5 .698 1.9 3.5 5.4 7.7 1.9 0.3 3.2 1.8 11.7 View Original Table Provided by Basketball-Reference.com

However, just because Kidd would be a good mentor for Ball doesn’t mean that he’s the best coach for the Lakers. For the next three years, the team’s primary focus should be finding a way to win a championship with LeBron James, who will turn 34 years old in December. Does Kidd give them the best chance to do that? Probably not.

I guess we’ll find out if the Lakers feel the same way sooner rather than later.