This Jason Kidd trade has devolved quicker than a house party without adult beverages.  First Devean George sabatoged it, then Jerry Stackhouse just absolutely killed it. 

The story goes like this.  Wednesday, the Nets and Mavericks agreed to a trade that would send Jason Kidd to the Mavericks for basically half of Dallas' team: Devin Harris, Jerry Stackhouse, DeSagana Diop, Devean George, Maurice Ager, $3 million, 2 first round picks, and any leftover barbecue from the team's All-Star break function (I was kidding about that last one.)

Wednesday night, the story came out that George, a role player at best, was blocking the trade as part of his early-Larry-Bird free agent rights.  Devean George's name being even uttered in the same sentence as Larry Bird is disturbing.  But here's what the worst part is: George is right in sticking up for himself.  How often have we seen organizations cutting players for no reason, and those players quietly going away?  I'm not sure Devean George is going to have too many more contracts after this one, nor am I sure that he will find another job to pay him millions for a fiscal year.  So as much as us fans hate it, George is right.

But the one person who may have single-handedly blew this trade is Jerry Stackhouse.  It appears that the Nets had agreed to buy out Stack, and the Mavs planned to re-sign him after the 30-day period in which he could not return to the team that traded him. 

Stackhouse, in his infinite wisdom, was quoted as saying this Wednesday night: "I get 30 days to rest, then I'll be right back.  I ain't going nowhere."  

Well it appears as though Gregg Popovich's trade commission and other Western Conference General Managers had a problem with this.  It's now being reported that the NBA will not allow Jerry Stackhouse to be a part of any Jason Kidd deal between the Mavericks and the Nets.  Nice going Stack.  Though, as we've seen before, Stackhouse is no rocket surgeon (intentionally mixed metaphor).  I guess 60% of the time, it doesn't work every time.

So how do the Mavericks get better?  Well, it won't be with the best pure point guard left on the market.  No Kidding!