Every NBA team’s greatest point guard of all time

Brooklyn Nets — Jason Kidd

2001-2008
14.8 points per game
9.1 assists per game
7.6 rebounds per game

Current Nets fans who were willing to live through the disaster that was the Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce era, the ones who were so excited for Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to come to Brooklyn were just hoping they could go back to the days of success that Jason Kidd once brought to this franchise.

Kidd was traded to the Nets in a trade that, if it happened now, would break the internet. He was traded along with Chris Dudley for Stephon Marbury, Johnny Newman, and Soumaila Samake. It was a deal that changed the future of the Nets and the Suns.

Kidd went to the Nets and immediately played amazingly well. The Nets had all the right pieces to take over a weak Eastern Conference. Kidd was the final piece of the puzzle. In his first season, Kidd led the Nets to the NBA Finals. They beat the Indiana Pacers in one of the most epic games of all time (a triple-overtime victory in the deciding Game 5), then beat the Hornets and Celtics to make the Finals.

The Nets took the momentum all the way through the next season, where they made the NBA Finals again. They lost to the Spurs this time. While it didn’t lead with the Nets winning its franchise’s first championship, it did get the Nets closer than they ever came. Kidd would play for the Nets for five more seasons before he was traded back to the Dallas Mavericks.