Jason Kidd

Nobody is talking about this because there are a lot of other things going on, but should the Dallas Mavericks have traded Devin Harris for Jason Kidd?  Dallas lost an up and coming young point guard and gained a 35 year old point guard whose skills were declining with each day. 

The Mavs thought that Kidd would help them go deeper in last season's playoffs, but that didn't happen mostly because Kidd couldn't keep up with another one of the Western Conference's young point guards--Chris Paul.  Had the Mavs not made the trade, Harris would have been a better defender against Paul than Kidd.  No one has been able to stop Chris Paul, but Harris would have had a much better chance of slowing him down.  And Kidd didn't really add much to the the Mavs' offense.  In other words, Kidd didn't help and probably hurt the Mavs' championship hopes.

We don't know what wold have happened had the Mavs not made the trade, but we do know that after the trade Dallas got their booties smacked 4-1 and their head coach was fired.  And now they don't have a rapidly improving player in Devin Harris.   What they do have is a huge salary cap hit on their roster for the rest of Kidd's contract.  Oy!

One more thing, Kidd the starting point guard for Team USA instead of Chris Paul.  This is a MESS!  A total mess.