Kidd confirms that agent has been talking to Nets about trade
By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine
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Updated: January 28, 2008, 7:51 PM ET
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Jason Kidd has come to grips with two realities. One, the New Jersey Nets aren't very good. Two, that their only chance of improving is to deal him. "I'm not mad at anybody," he said Monday afternoon by phone. "Sometimes, when you ride a wave, you get to the end and that's all there is. That's where we are."




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Kidd confirmed that his agent, Jeff Schwartz, has talked to Nets' management about moving him by the Feb. 21 trade deadline, but he categorized the conversation as a continuation of something that started last All-Star break, when the Nets nearly dealt him to the Lakers for a package of players that included Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown. The sticking point was that Nets president Rod Thorn wanted Andrew Bynum and the Lakers refused.

While initial reports had Kidd, 34, insisting on being sent to a contender, he said Monday that he realizes there are no guarantees in any scenario. At this point, he simply wants to play for a team that can compete every night and utilize his talents.

"It used to be if I got a triple-double, that was an automatic win," he said. "That's just not the case now. We tried to make this work. We've found out it doesn't. It's time for us all to move on."

Schwartz, in exploring current options for his client with other NBA teams, has been told that with Vince Carter signing a new four-year $61.8 million contract and Richard Jefferson having three years and $42 million left on his six-year deal, Kidd is the only moveable major asset New Jersey has.

There are a variety of teams who would be interested in acquiring Kidd -- Dallas and Denver already have reached out in the last week, a source said -- but it's a matter of what the Nets would insist upon in return. If draft picks are involved, weighing true value is infinitely easier after the May draft lottery, when the selection order is set and teams have a better idea of which players plan to declare their draft eligibility.

Ric Bucher covers the NBA for ESPN The Magazine.

You could do the following, but NJ would prob pass

Jason Kidd for Jamal, Malik, Fred Jones and Balkman and it would also give us the flexbility to move Kidd if they took the deal to LA for a combination of brown/Farmer and a filler getting us a pg and clearly a ton of cap room and send LAs pick to NJ

Jason Kidd is not getting traded to the Knicks. For the love of God...

Posted by tkf:

Posted by GKFv2:

Jason Kidd is not getting traded to the Knicks. For the love of God...

Amen...

I mean damn, do you guys think that every team wants to trade with the knicks. KIDD WILL NOT BE A KNICK!!!

Nets suck we probably suck worse who knows. We don't fit the profile. I say he goes to Dallas for Jason Terry and a pick

Posted by McK1:

Stickin with Kidd to the Blazers

Why you need to make changes at heappy camp?

I think Jason Kidd would be best suited in going to a team thats right on the cusp of winning a Championship like the Mavericks.

I would try to trade Kidd to Washington for Agent Zero.....cha-ching!

Kidd for Arenas and a filler.....nets have some bums at the end of the roster they can delete to make it happen. How interesting would that be? Eddie Jordan and Kidd together again.

Kidd to Dallas

It would be awesome to see him go to a very good, but not great team with a great big, and a really good/great wing, and see him take them over the top. Eg. LA, Orlando, Houston.