The start of a four-day Lake Tahoe golfing vacation allowed the Nets' Jason Kidd to do something yesterday that he sorely needed to do -- relax.

After an emotionally draining two weeks involving free agency and published reports that he tried to have his coach fired, the All-Star guard was delighted to be tuning up for NBC's American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.

Back home left behind unsettling newspaper reports that he demanded that Byron Scott be fired as a condition to re-sign with the Nets.

"It's an unnamed source and you can't find a ghost," Kidd said in his first session with the media since he announced Friday that he was staying with the Nets.

"With success, there's always controversy. Coach and I are on great terms. I respect Coach and I don't know where this all is all coming from, but we'll get past it."

Kidd said he and Scott have attempted to contact each other by phone since the story came out -- without success.

"We've been playing phone tag," Kidd said. "He's in Boston with the Summer League team and me being here three hours behind makes it even tougher. I'll talk to him, hopefully before the week is out."