Jason Kidd is my favorite player in the NBA and I was disappointed to read today that the Nets refuse to deal with him fairly. It is so sad to see a dispute like this force a great player to these lengths (sitting out with a fake Migraine headache reportedly).
Why can't Rod Thorn (the owner of the NETS) just sit down and deal with Jason fairly? He's a great player and all he wants to do is win. Just sit down at the bargaining table and negotiate with him to retain and hire a great supporting cast or trade him and forget about it and rebuild!Why would Rod Thorn and the NETS organization seem to think that they can hold somebody like a slave. What makes employers like this think that this is a playable hand? One word -- "lawyers". Its bad advice but I think lawyers drive much of this kind of thinking.
My advice to Rod is to play the players hand and the fans hand (a so-called WIN WIN). Nobody is going to stay on the team without Jason. Nobody is going to watch a team without Jason. Period!
Jason, being interviewed by Mike & Chris said that he was sick and doesn't understand who from the team would be spreading this information. It was opined that someone must be annoyed at Kidd about his desiring an extension or something... and that as far as he knows his agent is talking with the team, and the team has not said no... He also said that if he were to be angry, it would have been last year when he was being dangled as trade bait, and he played through all of that, so in general this makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't seem to be dissembling...