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Hoopla / May 7, 2008 / 4:17 pm

Don’t Tell RJ to Leave the V.I.P. Area

Photo. Zandy mangold
Bad things (allegedly) may happen.

General / May 6, 2008 / 5:49 pm

Mark Cuban Says He Did it For the Money

Kidd Photo. Jordan Hollander
Mark Cuban’s Blog Maverick is in our list of regular sites to visit. Cuban is always straight up with his posts and doesn’t hold back.
At the end of last week, he put up this post, breaking down every aspect of the Jason Kidd/Devin Harris trade. It’s a great look inside the […]

General / Mar 28, 2008 / 9:17 am

Dead Men Walking

RJ. Photo. Zandy Mangold
Today’s Daily News has an article about how Jason Kidd’s ongoing trade saga was killing the team. The story includes this quote Richard Jefferson:

“I’m not going to lie,” Jefferson said Thursday, “we were dead men walking with the Jason Kidd situation.”
Jefferson was referring to Kidd’s desire to be traded from the […]

Hoopla / Mar 3, 2008 / 11:56 am

How Quickly Things Changed

Since the day he was drafted, everyone assumed Marcus Williams was going to be Jason Kidd’s successor in New Jersey. As a rookie, when he was healthy and playing spot minutes, Williams clearly gave the Nets and their fans a different look - he showed he could change the pace of the game and score […]

Hoopla / Feb 22, 2008 / 11:19 am

Just Go Away

He had a perpetual whiny face from the second he came into the League. And I can just imagine Keith Van Horn with the same exact whiny mug sitting in his (assumed) palatial estate in Colorado when Rod Thorn called to tell him that he was going to be paid $4 million in order to […]

General / Feb 19, 2008 / 1:29 pm

FINALLY

The Jason Kidd trade is official.
This time around, there didn’t seem to be much suspense over whether or not the deal would go through. Reportedly Kidd will be in Dallas for a 3 P.M. press conference and Devin Harris is already with the Nets.

Hoopla / Feb 13, 2008 / 2:29 pm

BREAKING NEWS: KIDD TRADE “IMMINENT”

From Marc Stein at ESPN.com:
Sources told ESPN.com that talks between the Mavericks and Nets, which had seemingly stalled, grew serious after the teams played Sunday night in New Jersey and have moved them to the brink of completing the NBA’s third blockbuster deal of the month.
Although sources say that the teams are still sorting […]

General / Feb 11, 2008 / 5:23 pm

Not Going to Happen, Pt. II

Mark Cuban claims that a deal for Jason Kidd doesn’t make sense:
With the NBA trade deadline just over a week away, don’t expect the Mavericks to make a play for New Jersey Nets point guard Jason Kidd.
With a courtside seat Sunday night in New Jersey, Dallas owner Mark Cuban tried to silence talk of a […]

Hoopla / Jan 31, 2008 / 10:09 am

The Kidd Watch

This morning ESPN’s Marc Stein has the latest on the proposed Jason Kidd three-way deal that would end up with him back in Dallas, racking up dimes at an alarming rate.
Among the obstacles holding up the deal? The Mavs’ reluctance to give up Devin Harris (We’re always backers of seizing the opportunity to win […]

Hoopla / Jan 25, 2008 / 10:20 am

Does Kidd Still Want to Play?

That’s the question that Dave D’Alessandro of the Star-Ledger is asking this morning after last night’s Nets/Warriors game in Oakland. D’Alessandro is pretty scathing in his assessment of Jason Kidd over the last few weeks:
We don’t know any other way to put this, so we’ll just come right out with it: Kidd doesn’t look […]