[BGMaverick9]

just to add a little more, poke at the bear:

just saw this old/but still somewhat recent interview from Kidd that was posted on the db.com forums:

Dime: With the ring getting further and further away, did you feel lost in New Jersey?
JK: It's hard. The business of basketball gets in the way. Some of it is luck, you know? You look at the trades this year - Phoenix is the best team in the West and they traded for Shaq. The core of that Nets group had been together for a while but sometimes things need to change. I think you always work on your game in the summer to get better. You just hope the front office works as hard as you do. But you're just an employee; you have other people deciding your fate.