In recent years, Jason Kidd has been forthcoming and vocal when someone needed to suggest that the Nets needed more personnel.
So how's this for a twist: If the Nets don't make a trade before tomorrow afternoon's deadline, it's fine with him.
"It's quiet. Every year it is quiet for us," the captain said yesterday before the Nets' 89-85 victory over the Bucks. "We are going to stay pat, I guess, and be ready to rock and roll. I don't think we are doing anything. It is always quiet around us."
Kidd said this not only as a statement of fact, but as if the thought of changing the mix never occurred to him. Kidd knows the team could use more size, but when asked whether he wished management would make a change, his reply was a flat, "No."
"Ed and Rod know what they are doing," he said of GM Ed Stefanski and team president Rod Thorn. "If there is nothing out there that they feel can better the team, then this will be our team."