New Jersey might promise to release Stackhouse and he would be free to re-sign with Dallas but that might be too big a risk for Dallas. Terry also has a horrible contract that pays him $11.5 million for the 2011-12 season.
Even though the Mavericks are the team that's talked about most as a destination they have the least attractive package to offer.
Cleveland Cavaliers
Kidd and LeBron James both spoke openly about how much they enjoyed playing with each other during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Las Vegas. The Cavs could definitely use a point guard like Kidd but the Nets would prefer to send him to the Western Conference.
The Cavs have a young big in Anderson Varejao, but since he signed so late into the season, he's not eligible to be traded until after the trade deadline.
Drew Gooden is a young big with one more year left on his contract but he would need to be paired with Larry Hughes and the two years left on his horrible deal to make a deal work.
The Cavs can also include Daniel Gibson if the Nets want a point guard. Gibson is averaging close to 12 points and three assists per game and is shooting 47 percent from behind the three-point arc, good for fifth in the league. Not bad for a guy making less than $700,000.
The question for the Nets is, why would they trade for two more years of Hughes after this one when they can keep Kidd for just one more year? Gooden and Gibson might make it worth it. A starting lineup of Gibson, Carter, Jefferson, Gooden, and Jason Collins isn't really that bad.
A trade of Damon Jones, Donyell Marshall and Eric Snow for Kidd works also but that doesn't really help the Nets at all.
Los Angeles Lakers
A year ago the Lakers and Nets discussed a trade that would have sent Lamar Odom and Kwame Brown to the Nets for Kidd. The Nets asked the Lakers to include Andrew Bynum, and the Lakers balked.
A year later and there's nothing the Nets could offer to make the Lakers give up Bynum. Would the Nets still offer Kidd for Brown and Odom?
Brown gives the Nets a $9 million expiring contract. Odom has one more year on his contract at about $14.5 million. Odom is a New York native who would give the Nets some size but the Nets might want one of the Lakers two young point guards, Jordan Farmar or Javaris Crittenton, as well.
The Lakers might not be willing to part with Farmar but they could trade Crittenton. The Nets might also want the Lakers to take on the one-plus years left on Jason Collins' contract.
With Bynum out for another six weeks and Chris Mihm often injured, Collins would give the Lakers a fairly decent back-up center.
By shedding Kidd and Collins' contracts for Odom, the Nets would be more than $10 million under the cap this off-season. Brand is a New York native that might be willing to take a small pay cut to return to the East Coast.
But do the Lakers really need Kidd? A year ago Derek Fisher wasn't on the team so they were looking to upgrade over Smush Parker. With Fisher's return and the much-improved Farmar, the Lakers might not want to part with Odom to strengthen a position that doesn't really need much improvement.
With Kidd, the Lakers could start him in the backcourt with Kobe and move Ronny Turiaf into the starting lineup to replace Odom. They don't really have any other power forwards on the team, except possibly Vlad Radmanovic.
They could also move Kobe to small forward and start Fisher and Kidd at the guard positions.
The luxury for the Nets is that they don't have to move Kidd by the deadline if they're not happy with the offers they get. They could always wait until the off-season and see if they get any better offers.
Don't expect Kidd's name to be the only big name floated around before the February 21st trade deadline. Other names like Wally Szczerbiak, Kurt Thomas, Pau Gasol, and Zach Randolph, will surely get thrown out there.
The good news is that the NBA's trading season has arrived.
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