Starting Early - How will you react to Kidd's return?

Marla the Cheerleader from three or four years ago.

 

Have you been bad this year, Ghoti?

 

what he said

 

I don't want to be like butthurt Rap fans.

 

I chose #2. Without Kidd, there would be no two straight Finals. Without Kidd, there would probably be no Carter, since Zo wouldn't have signed in the first place. Most importantly, without Kidd there would be no Devin Harris!

Sure, he didn't leave on good terms and he sulked for a while, but watching him play was always a pleasure and he led the team to success. I'm wouldn't go crazy for him in his return but I would definitely welcome him back.

 

I mean I respect what kidd did for the franchise but it's not how you start off but how you finish. So I won't take it as far as say the raptor fans with Vince but believe me I was smiling,giggling and enjoying every moment that Chris Paul ate Kidd ass up last year.

Also knowing that he left the Nets to jump on the Mavs sinking ship is enough for me.

 

Why THE HELL should we boo Jason Kidd?!!?!?! The man brought repectability to this woeful franchise by taking us to two NBA Finals. He got us on our feet even when you could hear a pin drop in Continental Airlines. He was everything we could have wanted out of a captain. He was a role model with his teamwork and his assists left us all in awe. And at the end of his stay, the man handed all of us his greatest assist of all: DEVIN HARRIS. Cheer the man dammit. Cheer the man.

 

This is exactly true. The CAA was dead, but during the 01-02 season, you'd constantly hear chants of "M-V-P!" This also spilled onto other players: "KEN-YON MAR-TIN!", "LU-CIOUS HAR-RIS!", and, over course "SCAL-A-BRIN-E!" Really, the 01-02 season was my favorite season as a fan - it changed EVERYTHING I'd known about the Nets. Granted, I was a fan starting in 1996, so they were pretty much just a punchline (I missed out on the Drazen days).

Honestly, I'm shocked by the responses. It's like seeing a thread where Patriots fans are deciding if they should boo Tom Brady or not.

 

don't be shocked seeing my response, he will get treated the same all othe players get treated by me when I see them play the Nets, I'll boo him a couple times during the game and that is it. He is facing the Nets any true Nets fan should be booing him once the game start's unless you are one of the quiet people at the izod

 

If Tom Brady basically "quit" on the Patriots for a season, challenged Belichick's authority, called out his teammates, refused to play in a game against the Jets due to a chronic medical condition he has never suffered from (after he leaked that he was really just sitting out in protest), and then demanded to be traded to the Chargers so they could win the Super Bowl, I think there'd be some heated reaction.

I reveled in what the team accomplished during that run...and yes, Jason deserves a lot of the credit. But we showed him a ton of love when he was being jeered for being a wifebeater...yet when times got tough, he turned on us fans after we supported him and left in an incredibly classless way. So we're supposed to treat him with the class and respect he refused to show us?

 

If I was a Patriots fan, short of Tom Brady running over my mother with his car, nothing would make me boo him.

 

This is my feeling as well. No one can deny what he brought to the team--the respectability, the success, an identity--but the last season or so, he went about things the wrong way. Players don't always realise that they provide a service, and the customers are the fans. I was very disappointed that he failed to or refused to address or consider the fans when this whole mess went down. All we got were denials about what was obviously going on. I felt like a sucker. Look, when Vince was going through his trade request from Toronto, he made a point of saying how much he loved the city, how much he loved the fans, and that it had nothing to do with them, but it was time for him to move on. For some reason I can't fathom, they still hate him, regardless.

 

Maybe you feel that way because Brady actually WON 3 Super Bowls. Of course, with Kidd's two NBA Championships...oh, wait, he didn't actually win when he got to the finals. But he did manage to get 3 coaches fired.

Kidd is a basketball savant...but he won't get his coveted ring because, in the long run, he chooses what is best for him over what is best for the team. His only hope will be to go the Gary Payton route. Let's see if he signs with anyone for $1MM just to get the chance to be a back up on a quality TEAM next year.

I expect will see Byron Scott win a ring as a coach before we see Kidd win one as a player.

 

Your point about Vince is well taken. He got his bad rap because of that one ill fated quote about "not playing hard on some nights". That was his undoing (everyone could point to games where he didn't perform as expected and blame it on him not "giving it his all").

With Kidd, there were lots of nights where he seemed to downshift and play with much less intensity than he was capable of...I remember when he was torched by Anthony Johnson for 40 in a playoff game. He even admitted a few times it was more about the playoffs and the final push at the end of a season. But he was never called on it.

Kidd has super human talent...but unlike Kobe, Shaq, Michael, and Wade, he never meshed with a coach that could put the TEAM over the top.

 

I'm currently laughing to the mental image of you booing Tom Brady as he repeatedly runs over your mother with a car.

"Boooo! That's my mother! Booooooooooo!"