He was both stoic and heroic, a rare commodity in today’s world of self-promotional, ME! celebrities. Steady and quiet but with a sense of the historic and the dramatic when needed.
From the moment he walked in the door at the Nets old practice facility in East Rutherford to the moment he departed after a bitter end, the Nets were his team. Vince Carter might have been the more spectacular player, Kenyon Martin the more volatile, but the New Jersey franchise of the NBA were Jason Kidd’s team, his project, ultimately his creation.