Moping in the Meadowlands

As one of the last remaining New Jersey Nets fans**, I should be charmed by the prospect of Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin playing significant playoff minutes for a "contender" ten years after making back-to-back Finals appearances***, but given that they're playing for the @%$@#& Knicks, it's really just depressing.


** and by "fan" of the Nets, I mean "person who is vaguely aware of and moderately cares about what the team is currently doing".  Really, it's the most a New Jersey team can ask for when Jersey is the Scottish and New York is the English:

 

*** it would have been three consecutive finals, if Kidd weren't playing injured during the 2004 playoffs (requiring microfracture surgery in the offseason). As it was, they took the eventual champion Pistons to 7 games with a one-legged Kidd.  There's NO WAY they lose that series if he's healthy.  IMO, Kidd's Hall of Fame ticket was punched when he managed to get to consecutive Finals, first with Keith Van Horn, Kerry Kittles, Kenyon Martin, and Todd MacCulloch as starters (with rookie Richard Jefferson coming off the bench), and then with Kittles, Martin, Jefferson, and Jason Collins as starters (and not much off the bench).