Jet here, This Kidd/Mavs trade is the best comedy of the NBA season so far - and that's beating out some stiff competition considering that we're in the age of the Isiah Thomas and Steve Kerr regimes.
Mark Cuban is making a joke out of the NBA salary cap. I think the League has a real Catch-22 on its hands. On the one hand, it likes the excitement generated by all of the blockbuster deadline deals. I'm sure Stern is salivating over the hype that's building for the Western Conference playoffs just as much as we are.
On the other hand, this trade (and some of it's predecessors, but this one is the most blatant yet) is making a total joke out of the NBA salary cap. The only reason that this deal is happening is Mark Cuban's willingness to burn millions of dollars to make his team better (in theory). He was already punting over 3 million to get the deal in its original format, and that's not counting the millions that he would have spent (again) to re-ink Stackhouse after the 30 day waiting period imposed by the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Too bad Stack's loose lips blew that wide open, as flouting Cuban's plans to circumvent the cap to such a degree was something Stern could not stomach despite the positive effect for the League. Now Cuban is dropping another "stack" of millions to sign Keith Van Horn out of his unofficial retirement. This will put him into the luxury tax range, costing more millions...
We can't really complain - as NBA fans, we get to observe the latest NBA experiment along with a boatload of drama to talk about. The Mavs might not actually be any better, but they're putting on a show for sure. The Nets get Devin Harris and unload Kidd - they're the biggest winners of all. Big spender Mark Cuban is picking up the tab for all of us. He's got the $ to burn, and there's obviously enough loop-holes in this NBA Salary Cap to knit Jason Kidd a Dallas Mavericks sweater...-Jet out
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