text: Yes he was, but he was actually traded for Stephon Marbury, you think Kidd chose to go the Nets?  At one point in time the Suns had J-Kidd, an old Kevin Johnson and a young Steve Nash stuck deep on the bench.  Then KJ retired, Nash was signed by the Mavericks in a deal thought to be way too high at the time, and Kidd went to the Nets for Starbury.  They tried Marbury for a while but the stigma of how much Kidd succeeded in Jersey led to Marbury getting traded to the Knicks and Nash coming back to the Suns as a free agent in a deal thought to be way too high at the time, detecting a pattern?