In case you haven’t heard yet, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups and Corey Brewer have been traded to the Knicks along with a few others for Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, three draft picks, some cash, and a few spares. In the process, Minnesota gets rid of Brewer in exchange for Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry’s expiring contract.
How is this great for Dallas?
Jason Kidd had that familiar, faraway look, the one that screams, what the heck am I doing here?
Maybe it was about being decisively outperformed by Chauncey Billups, his old Eastern Conference nemesis, in a convincing 98-88 victory by the surging Denver Nuggets over Kidd’s Mavericks on Monday night at American Airlines Center.
Maybe it was his desultory role in the Dallas offense — a pass here, a pick there, before drifting outside for spot-up shots he couldn’t make (0 for 5 from the field) or wouldn’t take while Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Terry and, yes, J. J. Barea formed the creative core of a Mavericks offense held to 34.9 percent shooting by the new, defensively improved Nuggets.
