{"id":267383,"date":"2021-06-05T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/years-after-jason-kidds-failed-coup-nets-and-bucks-thriving-without-him\/"},"modified":"2021-06-05T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T12:00:12","slug":"years-after-jason-kidds-failed-coup-nets-and-bucks-thriving-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/years-after-jason-kidds-failed-coup-nets-and-bucks-thriving-without-him\/","title":{"rendered":"#Years after Jason Kidd’s failed coup, Nets and Bucks thriving without him"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Years after Jason Kidd’s failed coup, Nets and Bucks thriving without him<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A team overlooked in its own town finally had the spotlight. Multiple All-Stars had joined forces to bring a title to Brooklyn. A Hall of Fame point guard with no previous coaching experience had led the Nets into a highly anticipated Eastern Conference semifinal battle.<\/p>\n

The scene was similar seven years ago.<\/p>\n

But whatever unfolds in the upcoming playoff series<\/a> between the Nets and Bucks, it will be difficult to match the drama between the franchises after Jason Kidd\u2019s first \u2014 and only \u2014 season as Nets head coach. It was then that Kidd attempted to usurp the authority of general<\/a> manager Billy King and become president of basketball operations, only to be rejected by then-owner Mikhail Prokhorov and traded to the Bucks for a pair of second-round picks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a nice proverb in English: Don\u2019t let the door hit you where the Good Lord has split you,\u201d Prokhorov said in the aftermath. \u201cWe did what we thought was best.\u201d<\/p>\n

The saga feels like a lifetime ago \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo was a rookie, averaging 6.8 points for Milwaukee. Kyrie Irving hadn\u2019t been to the playoffs in four years with the lowly Cavaliers. Joe Harris was graduating from Virginia \u2014 but five NBA head coaches from June 2014 still remain with the same team.<\/p>\n

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The Nets expected their former superstar to be part of that group. Kidd, then 40, was hired less than two weeks after ending his 19-year playing career, with the Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has the fire in the belly we need and has achieved as a player everything the Brooklyn Nets are striving to achieve,\u201d Prokhorov said after signing Kidd to a four-year, $10.5 million deal on June 12, 2013. \u201cWe believe he will lead us there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kidd\u2019s ties to the franchise grew deeper once he returned to the team he had led from 2001-08. He bought a minority stake in the Nets and Barclays Center from Jay-Z in September 2013, then had his jersey retired in October.<\/p>\n

The Nets were coming off their first playoff berth in six years and opted to sacrifice the future for the potential to win immedia<\/a>tely in their new home, acquiring the aging Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry (to join Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez) from the Celtics for five players, three first-round picks and the rights to swap another first-round pick.<\/p>\n

The Nets opened the season at 10-21 and ultimately finished sixth (44-38) in a weak Eastern Conference \u2014 collecting fewer wins than Avery Johnson and P.J. Carlesimo had combined for the season prior \u2014 before losing to the Heat in the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Kidd \u2014 now a Lakers assistant \u2014 endured other troubles, too. Early that season, he served a two-game<\/a> suspension for pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge. After requesting that Lawrence Frank be hired as the league\u2019s highest-paid assistant, Kidd quickly found friction with his former coach and had Frank demoted, months into a six-year deal, to file daily scouting reports. Kidd was also fined $50,000 for intentionally spilling soda on the court to delay the end of a close game in which the Nets had no timeouts left.<\/p>\n

Yet the rookie coach still had the gall to try and leapfrog King, who\u2019d helped make the unusual hiring the year prior.<\/p>\n