Hahahahahahaha - Nets are going to IMPLODE next season. I'm now going on record as having a higher basketball IQ than Kidd.
I really hope for Kidd's sake that quote was taken out of context. Even if it wasn't, I'd assume he'll realize that's not possible as soon as the team has their first practice. BTW - Has anyone talked about who he'll bring on to the Nets staff? Is he retaining Mario Elie and Popeye Jones, or is he going in a different direction? I know that he's really good friend with Tracy Murray, who's been trying to break into NBA coaching for a while. Since retiring, Murray's been both a NBDL and WNBA assistant and is currently doing radio for UCLA games while coaching "Ball Up." I wouldn't be surprised to see him get a seat on the Nets' bench next season.
Re: OT: Kidd formidable candidate to coach Nets (has this ever happened before??) Yeah, but those guys were player-coaches in their 30s. How could you old vets forget Dave DeBusschere, for almost 3 seasons from age 24-26, was player-coach for the Pistons? Later winning a championship with the Knicks, he was bitter that Pistons management had put him into a position of inevitable failure. http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/debusda01c.html Edit: Actually, he became Head Coach at age 23. The 1st game of the regular season was on his 24th birthday.
Re: OT: Kidd formidable candidate to coach Nets (has this ever happened before??) I still maintain Tim Duncan deserved MVP that season. The Spurs had a better record in a better conference. Yes, the team improved when he joined but Kittles, Van Horn, and Martin had been injured the year before. All three players rejoined the team that season and they drafted Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins. Kidd wasnt the sole reason they improved. Obviously, the voters agreed with me.
Re: OT: Kidd formidable candidate to coach Nets (has this ever happened before??) I expected Kidd to retire a couple of years after Payton. For the last few years, Kidd has been a fish out of water. He hung on too long.
Re: OT: Kidd formidable candidate to coach Nets (has this ever happened before??) Bill Simmons wrote a long Tim Duncan biography. In it, he wrote that Kidd was to be traded to San Antonio, but his wife wouldn't let him because in New Jersey, she was working on her Manhattan acting career, funded by him. Later, he divorced her. Imagine Kidd and Parker together.
