Remember how the Nets pledged to their current fan base that they would stay competitive in New Jersey while waiting for their move to Brooklyn? Looks like that pledge was about as solid as Bruce Ratner's promise of 10,000 new Atlantic Yards jobs.
With the 19-26 Nets going nowhere fast (they did manage to snap their nine-game losing streak last night), their clearly disgruntled star point guard, Jason Kidd, will almost certainly be an ex-Net by the February 22nd NBA trading deadline.
There was a time when Jason Kidd was hopeful of winning a championship in the Meadowlands (the Nets went to the NBA finals in 2002 and 2003). Then Bruce happened, and the bad karma of pretending th[...] View original story