Jason Kidd Most Definitely Did Not Quit on New Jersey

Jason Kidd yesterday spent a couple of hours chatting with the New York Daily News about coming back to Dallas and leaving New Jersey -- where Nets president Rod Thorn has said Kidd more or less quit on the team. Which is most definitely not the case, Kidd said while...

By Robert Wilonsky

March 6, 2008

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Jason Kidd yesterday spent a couple of hours chatting with the New York Daily News about coming back to Dallas and leaving New Jersey -- where Nets president Rod Thorn has said Kidd more or less quit on the team. Which is most definitely not the case, Kidd said while sitting "on a massive stone deck that wraps around his palatial 17th-floor rooftop penthouse apartment" somewhere in the city.

Says Kidd: "The ride was over. At the end of the day, I gave everything that I could give to the Nets. There were no more rabbits that I could pull out of the hat. There were no more rabbits that Rod (Thorn) could pull out of a hat. That is as far as they could go. I took them as high as I could." If nothing else Saturday's Mavs-Nets game at the American Airlines Center oughta be fun. Most definitely. --Robert Wilonsky

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