Mavericks could go after Izzo
…The Mavs may also get creative in replacing Johnson. This will ostensibly be Cuban’s first independent hire: He inherited Don Nelson when he bought the team in 2000 and allowed Nelson to groom Johnson as his hand-picked successor. While names of the usual candidates (Rick Carlisle, Paul Silas, Jeff Van Gundy) will be bandied about, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Cuban make a big-money bid for Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski or Michigan State’s Tom Izzo. Krzyzewski flirted with the Lakers in 2004 while Izzo said recently that he would be open to talking to NBA teams.