Questions, questions, questions.

We love to ask questions.

Some answers seldom come in the course of a day, a year or even a lifetime. The most appealing aspect of the sports business is that answers come over the course of a season or a career. For the New Jersey Nets, one short-term answer came over the course of a game.

The question everyone asked when the Nets sent Marbury to Phoenix for Jason Kidd last summer was whether the trade was worth the risk: Giving up a young, new-school talent for a 28-year-old veteran with remarkable, old- school talent for distributing the ball.