One of the best point guards to ever play the game, Jason Kidd enjoyed a 19-year career with the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets and New York Knicks, in which he was selected to 12 All-Star Games and won a championship with the Mavericks in 2011.
But after the San Antonio Spurs announced that Tim Duncan was retiring Monday, the Milwaukee Bucks head coach revealed that not joining the power forward in San Antonio as a free agent in 2003 was "the biggest disappointment" of his career, per Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.com (via Matt Moore of CBSSports.com).
Instead, he took a six-year, $103 million deal to stay with the defending Eastern Conference-champion Nets:
I thought I was going to be a Spur. I committed when I was down there on my visit [to San Antonio].
On my flight home, I think I got cold feet. And sometimes I have nightmares about that. Maybe I could have won a championship or two there. But I got really lucky with Dallas and won a championship.
That decision came shortly after Kidd and his Nets lost to the Spurs in six games for the NBA title, which delivered ...
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Jason Kidd Comments on Decision to Remain with Nets over Spurs in 2003
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