According to Marc Stein of DLLS, the Dallas Mavericks have elected to sign Jason Kidd to a contract extension. Over the last two summers, there were various reports that he had interest from the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Of course, he was under contract, so to join either team he would’ve had to have been traded or Dallas would have had to release him from his contract. Where this gets additionally funny is Jason Kidd already signed a contract extension with Dallas LAST summer.

That extension seemed to come directly as a result of the Laker interest, so the extension made sense. This one… doesn’t. Dallas had him under contract and he had no means of getting out of his contract. But Dallas decided to give him more money and years anyway, which is a testament to his negot

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