No one but no one can give you a sense of where the Nets have been like Ian Eagle and when Mike Mazzeo caught up with him this week, the talk was about Jason Kidd and Kevin Durant. Not comparing their careers or ranking their relative talents.
No, it was about how KD can do for the Brooklyn Nets what JKidd did for the New Jersey Nets, make them the centerpiece of pro ball in New York. Eagle, who’s covered the Nets for nearly a quarter century, called Kidd’s debut at the Continental Airlines Arena on October 30, 2001 and he’ll do the honors again for YES Tuesday night when Durant takes the court officially as a Net for the first time.