<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With the schedule resuming against the Hornets Wednesday, one day before the trading deadline, the Nets own a lengthy to-do list. The team needs to rest and regroup. Jason Kidd needs to get healthy. Management needs to discover if any trade makes sense. And the brass wants to do one other thing. Determine whether Vince Carter will be a free agent this summer. "Vince has said that he had never been a free agent and, before the season, he told us that he wants to be a free agent," said team president Rod Thorn. "Over the next week, we would like to ascertain what his intentions will be, and it has nothing to do with the trading deadline. But you want to gather all the information you can." Thorn expects Carter to opt out of the final year of his contract - worth $16,360,094 next season - and test free agency. But that doesn't mean he won't be a Net in 2007-08. And it doesn't mean the Nets don't want him back. They do. </div> Source
