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How much can you get for an aging PG averaging just 11 ppg, who's obviously unhappy? Other teams have leverage here.</p>
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Not true. The Nets have all the leverage, and now is the perfect time to deal him. he is a unique talent, and everyone sees how Team USA is undefeated when he plays on it. Every star in the league wants to play with him, and right now every one of them is texting their GMs demanding that they try to acquire him. The question is whether they are willing to sell their soul to do so. There is always one idiot (see: sacramento signing Mikki) and that's all it takes. Rod is playing this perfectly by signalling that he will listen to offers but will not give Kidd away. If the Nets play this right, they will just need a half-season to rebuild, like they did when they acquired Carter. The question is whether they will give the reins to Marcus or acquire another starting PG.</p>
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You couldn't have put this as the first of 12 posts??</p>
In any case, the Nets are going nowhere and now's as good a time to deal him as any, so why don't other teams have leverage if that's the case? If the Nets were on a winning binge right now, then theNets would be able to get the most back, obviously. Of course stars want to play with him, he's still an excellent PG, all the stars wanted to play with KG as well, but not too many teams made legit offers, and the Celtics came away with him relatively cheaply. KG is way better than Kidd.</p>
And the big difference between this and Carter, you guys acquired Vince Carter for garbage. In this case, you'd be trading a perennial all-star and definitely not getting equal value in return. How would it take only half a season to recover from that?</p>
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ha, I did--i just deleted the first 11 copies.</p>