In a fitting irony, Jason Kidd, the Nets greatest player in the NBA era, and Rod Thorn, the general manager who brought him to New Jersey, were named Saturday to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The enshrinement will take place Friday, September 7.
Kidd, one of the game’s great point guards, played six plus seasons for the Nets, arriving by a trade from the Suns that was engineered by Thorn in July 2001. He is the 10th Nets players to be honored.
In those six seasons in New Jersey, Kidd led the Nets to two Eastern Conference championships in 2002 and 2003, made the NBA All-Star team three times and the All-NBA team three times.