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Vince Carter just shook his head sadly Wednesday morning. He had no desire to talk about the sorry state of his former team.The New Jersey Nets, who traded him to Orlando this summer as part of a salary cap dump for 2010, are poised to set an NBA record for futility tonight after losing 17 consecutive games to start a season.
No. 18 will be the magic number.
"Let's wait until they win their first game,'' Carter said. "At this point, there's not much I could say."
Carter was in no mood to gloat, but he and second-year forward Ryan Anderson, who also was part of the multi-player trade in June, clearly were relieved to not be in New Jersey and part of NBA infamy.
"I really feel for the guys who are there,'' Anderson said. "I'm surprised it happened, but they had so many unfortunate things happen to them. I'd hope that if I was there, I might have made a difference, but you don't know. I'm just happy to be where I'm at.''
The Nets will be trying to avoid history tonight against the Dallas Mavericks and point guard Jason Kidd, who was the leader of the Nets when the reached the NBA Finals in both 2002 and 2003
Kidd told the New York Daily News Tuesday that he saw the downfall of the Nets coming, playing through the gradual decline of the franchise before he forced a trade to Dallas midway through the 2007-08 season.
"It was something that eventually was going to happen,'' Kidd said. "It is an unfortunate situation.''
Kidd blamed Nets management for failing to re-sign key players from their teams of '02 and '03 because of budget restraints. Instead of giving Martin the contract he wanted, they traded him to Denver.
The Nets did trade for Carter early in the 2004-05 season, and he helped keep them respectable while they continued to cut salaries. In the last two years, they have done everything to create significant salary cap room for the summer of 2010 in order to chase some big-name free agents. The Nets are expected to be $20 million under the cap this summer.
"It was just one after another,'' Kidd said. "There is a big change going on in New Jersey. There is no one left from when we got to the Finals.''
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