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May 13, 2007
Jefferson and Carter audition to stay with Nets
NorthJersey.com
No hard evidence suggests that Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson have the kind of tense non-relationship shared by Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. No him-or-me, me-or-him body language defines their awkward spacing on the court.But in the end, New Jersey simply isn't big enough for both. Nor is Brooklyn, for that matter. The Nets could conceivably win Game 3 tonight at Continental Arena and come back from this 0-2 second-round deficit to beat Cleveland, and they still won't win the NBA title.
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The Nets have the right talent and the wrong balance. Though Carter and Jefferson are hardly mirror images of each other, they simply overlap a bit too much.Rod Thorn needs to trade one for a bigger body, and I'd bet all the millions Bruce Ratner's going to make on his real estate score in Brooklyn that Thorn will do that deal this summer. He'll either move Jefferson like he almost did in last year's bid to land Luol Deng, or he'll complete a sign-and-trade deal with the free agent-to-be, Carter, to fortify his front line.
Posted by amy at May 13, 2007 11:03 AM