Last time we checked in with Jason Kidd, he was directing some love towards a lovely large lady’s backside. Now, it’s his New Jersey Nets team that’s getting a spanking—it turns out he’s been seeking a trade for the past year, but there’ve been no takers for the 34-year-old All Star. Well, there has but the Lakers showed fortuitous restraint not sending Andrew Bynum back home to New Jersey.

Kidd confirmed that his agent, Jeff Schwartz, has talked to Nets’ management about moving him by the Feb. 21 trade deadline, but he categorized the conversation as a continuation of something that started last All-Star break, when the Nets nearly dealt him to the Lakers for a package of players that included Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown. The sticking point was that Nets president Rod Thorn wanted Andrew Bynum and the Lakers refused.

“I’m not mad at anybody,” [Kidd] said Monday afternoon by phone. “Sometimes, when you ride a wave, you get to the end and that’s all there is. That’s where we are.”

How philosophical. The only problem is that we’ve been to beaches in New Jersey, and what’s usually left after the wave is some rocky-ass shoreline. Let’s hope Kidd doesn’t get too banged up hanging ten.

Kidd confirms that agent has been talking to Nets about trade [ESPN]
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