Geez, was there just a fight between Cuban and Prokhorov over JKidd's number in this forum? Both franchises will do it. When, how is another question for a later date. Incredibly fortunate for this forum that basketball players do not wear hats, this forum would have crashed on which hat to wear, Nets or Mavericks.
As someone who followed his career, the Nets would not be in Brooklyn without Kidd. The finals, playoff appearances all legitimized the Nets, gave the franchise financial value, just like how Lebron did it for Cleveland. People were paying attention to the Nets for the first time. There's no way there would have been a shovel in Brooklyn without Kidd. In some ways, Kidd Built the Barclays Center. Would they still have built the place if Kidd left after 2003? Probably not. Nevertheless, that's what he did for the Nets, for him personally his time in NJ laid the foundation to his HOF resume.
In Dallas he cemented the first ballot ticket to the HOF. You win a championship and as Mark Jackson said on the broadcast, "Jason Kidd's DNA was all over this championship," he leaves a legacy of helping take another HOF player over the championship threshold. What he did in Dallas goes beyond the stat sheets. It took him a year or so to lay his gritty, toughness into the Mavs bunch, translated into a do what it takes to win, lunch pail group......and Cuban said he bought Mavs season tickets because of Kidd.
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